Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.
6 reports came in from Monroe County this week, 2 of them past peak and 1 of them at peak. Our date held. See the county on the map.
That’s 4 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
Plan this tripIf you can only come on certain days
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Monday 26 October to Tuesday 27 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- Where to drive
- Route 46 through Brown County, about 13 miles
- What turns
- white oak, northern red oak, red maple, shagbark hickory, sweetgum
What turns, and when
- white oak31%
- northern red oak26%
- red maple19%
- shagbark hickory13%
- sweetgum3%
- blackgum3%
Also named across Indiana, outside what the canopy read measures here: Sugar Maple, Tulip Poplar, Sassafras.
Brown County's rolling hills of sugar maples turn vivid orange and scarlet, with sassafras adding electric orange and tulip poplars fading to clear gold in the hollows.
Across Indiana as a whole: Mid-October in the north, late October in Brown County and southern Indiana.
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 13 long-running forest cameras: two dates in three land within 9 days of the camera’s own peak. How this map is made