National Recreation Area·Kentucky, Tennessee·171,281 acres
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area
Forecast issued 25 Sep, 5:21pm ET
Peak color, most of the stand4 NovAim for 3 to 6 Nov
In the recreation area today, Sep 25Still green
white oak and northern red oak
red maple and shagbark hickory, peak Oct 29
Peak color should arrive around 29 Oct for the red maple and shagbark hickory, and around 7 Nov for the white oak and northern red oak.
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 forecast
Around Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area Lyon County holds most of the recreation area and is still green today. Stewart County, to the southeast, is 1 day behind. Trigg County, to the northeast, is 1 day behind.
That’s 6 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Tuesday 3 November to Wednesday 4 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
What turns
white oak, northern red oak, red maple, shagbark hickory
What turns, and when
white oak34%
northern red oak33%
red maple17%
shagbark hickory16%
Also named across Kentucky, outside what the canopy read measures here: Sugar Maple, Tulip Poplar, Sweetgum.
The Cumberland Plateau and Daniel Boone National Forest produce a warm palette of gold tulip poplars, bronze hickories, and deep red sugar maples against sandstone cliffs.
Across Kentucky as a whole: Mid-October in the eastern mountains, late October to early November in the Bluegrass.
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
