Peak color, most of the stand3 NovAim for 2 to 5 Nov
In the wilderness today, Sep 25Still green
white oak and black oak
shagbark hickory and sugar maple, peak Oct 28
Peak color should arrive around 28 Oct for the shagbark hickory and sugar maple, and around 6 Nov for the white oak and black oak.
Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.
16 reports came in from Taney County this week, 5 of them past peak and 2 of them at peak. Our date held. See the county on the map.
Still greenStartingNearly peakPeakPast peakNo fall canopy we forecastInside the line, each band of elevation is painted on its own date.
Around Hercules-Glades Wilderness Nearly all of the wilderness is in Taney County, which is still green today.By elevation The wilderness runs from about 815 to 1,236 feet. It turns together: there isn’t enough relief here for the color to come down in stages.
1,250–1,500 ftStill greenpeak Nov 24%
1,000–1,250 ftStill greenpeak Nov 245%
750–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Nov 351%
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Height off 3DEP inside the wilderness’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the wilderness stands in it.
See it now PhenoCam Network, Missouri State University camera, 19 km away, captured Sep 25.
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.
Monday 2 November to Tuesday 3 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
1,000–1,250 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 2
750–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 3
Where to drive
Route 7 Scenic Byway, about 59 miles · Pig Trail Scenic Byway (Route 23), about 82 miles · Route 19 through Ozark National Scenic Riverways, about 94 miles
What turns
white oak, black oak, shagbark hickory, sugar maple
What turns, and when
white oak43%
black oak28%
shagbark hickory15%
sugar maple14%
Also named across Missouri, outside what the canopy read measures here: Red Oak, Sassafras.
The Ozarks produce a warm fall palette dominated by gold and bronze from oaks and hickories, with sugar maples adding scarlet along the creek bottoms and sassafras glowing orange on the hillsides.
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
