Peak color, most of the stand2 NovAim for 1 to 4 Nov
In the river today, Sep 25Still green
white oak and black oak
shagbark hickory and sugar maple, peak Oct 27
Peak color should arrive around 27 Oct for the shagbark hickory and sugar maple, and around 5 Nov for the white oak and black 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 forecastInside the line, each band of elevation is painted on its own date.
Around Ozark National Scenic Riverways Shannon County holds most of the river and is still green today. Carter County, to the southeast, is 1 day behind. Dent County, to the north, is 2 days ahead.By elevation The river runs from about 537 to 1,229 feet. That’s 2 days of season between the top and the bottom: the high stands peak around Nov 1, the low ground holds until about Nov 3, and the color comes downhill in between. The date at the top of this page is the 750 to 1,000 foot band.
1,000–1,250 ftStill greenpeak Nov 121%
750–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Nov 230%
500–750 ftStill greenpeak Nov 343%
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Height off 3DEP inside the river’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the river stands in it.
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.
Sunday 1 November to Monday 2 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
1,000–1,250 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 1
750–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 2
500–750 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 3
Where to drive
Route 19 through Ozark National Scenic Riverways, about 7 miles · Route 7 Scenic Byway, about 135 miles
What turns
white oak, black oak, shagbark hickory, sugar maple
What turns, and when
white oak43%
black oak29%
shagbark hickory14%
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
