Higher ground turns first, so the slopes above the road lead the valley by a few days.
No new reports from the ground here this week.
Still greenStartingNearly peakPeakPast peakNo fall canopy we forecast
Around Chippewa National Forest Cass County holds most of the forest and is starting to turn today. That’s the county as a whole, which peaks 2 days later than the forest’s own stands: the forest is nearly peak. Itasca County, to the east, is 4 days ahead. Beltrami County, to the northwest, is 3 days ahead.
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Thursday 1 October to Friday 2 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
What turns
sugar maple, red maple, paper birch, quaking aspen, yellow birch
What turns, and when
sugar maple25%
red maple21%
paper birch18%
quaking aspen10%
yellow birch8%
American beech8%
Also named across Minnesota, outside what the canopy read measures here: Tamarack.
The Boundary Waters and North Shore produce a mosaic of aspen gold, birch yellow, and maple scarlet against the dark boreal backdrop of spruce and fir.
Across Minnesota as a whole: Late September inland in the Arrowhead, early October along the North Shore, early-to-mid October in the metro, late October for tamaracks.
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
