Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.
No new reports from the ground here this week.
Still greenStartingNearly peakPeakPast peakNo fall canopy we forecastInside the line, each band of elevation is painted on its own date.
Around Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area Gwinnett County holds most of the recreation area and is still green today. Forsyth County, to the northeast, is 2 days ahead. Cobb County, to the southwest, is on the same day.By elevation The recreation area runs from about 811 to 1,121 feet. It turns together: there isn’t enough relief here for the color to come down in stages.
1,000–2,000 ftStill greenpeak Nov 727%
0–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Nov 873%
SepOctNov
Height off 3DEP inside the recreation area’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the recreation area stands in it.
That’s 4 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
The place
Today the river valley attracts us for so many reasons. Take a solitary walk to enjoy nature’s display, raft leisurely through the rocky shoals with friends, fish the misty waters as the sun comes up, or have a picnic on a Sunday afternoon. Get Outdoors and experience your Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area as you have never done before.
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Saturday 7 November to Sunday 8 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
1,000–2,000 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 7
0–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 8
Where to drive
Cherohala Skyway, about 93 miles · Newfound Gap Road, about 121 miles
What turns
white oak, northern red oak, red maple, shagbark hickory, tulip poplar
What turns, and when
white oak31%
northern red oak24%
red maple20%
shagbark hickory12%
tulip poplar3%
sweetgum3%
The Blue Ridge mountains of north Georgia produce warm golds and russets from hickories and oaks, with red maples and sweetgums providing the scarlet and purple accents.
This forecast is built from the species that stand here, their elevation and this September’s weather, and corrected in season by cameras, foresters and our own crew. We score it here against 7 long-running forest cameras: two dates in three land within 13 days of the camera’s own peak. How this map is made
