Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.
Weather Wind to 37 mph Saturday. Color may come down before it turns.
10 reports came in from Hancock County this week, 7 of them still green and 2 of them patchy color. Our date held. See the county on the map.
- 0–1,000 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 1366%
- -1,000–0 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 1434%
Height off 3DEP inside the refuge’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the refuge stands in it.
That’s 1 day earlier than our model alone would say. This September has been running cool, 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.
Tuesday 13 October to Wednesday 14 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- 0–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 13
- -1,000–0 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 14
- Where to drive
- Park Loop Road, about 8 miles
- What turns
- red maple, sugar maple, paper birch, silver maple, yellow birch
What turns, and when
- red maple24%
- sugar maple21%
- paper birch14%
- silver maple8%
- yellow birch7%
- American beech7%
Also named across Maine, outside what the canopy read measures here: White Birch, Red Oak.
Maine's fall is defined by the contrast of scarlet maples and golden birches against dark spruce, with the rocky coast adding a blue backdrop that makes every color more vivid.
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 27 long-running forest cameras: two dates in three land within 10 days of the camera’s own peak. How this map is made