Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.
Weather Wind to 63 mph Friday. Color may come down before it turns.
No new reports from the ground here this week.
- 0–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Oct 2236%
- -1,000–0 ftStill greenpeak Oct 2264%
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.
If you can only come on certain days
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Wednesday 21 October to Thursday 22 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- 0–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 22
- -1,000–0 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 22
- Where to drive
- Route 169, about 102 miles
- What turns
- blackgum, red maple, sweetgum, water oak, bald cypress
What turns, and when
- blackgum17%
- red maple17%
- sweetgum17%
- water oak17%
- bald cypress16%
- willow oak8%
Also named across Massachusetts, outside what the canopy read measures here: Sugar Maple, Red Oak, White Birch, American Beech.
The Berkshires produce classic New England color with sugar maples blazing orange and scarlet, birches going gold, and red oaks anchoring the ridges in deep burgundy.
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