Higher ground turns first, so the slopes above the road lead the valley by a few days.
Weather Wind to 25 mph Sunday. Color may come down before it turns.
No new reports from the ground here this week.
- 11,000–12,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 185%
- 10,000–11,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 1716%
- 9,000–10,000 ftPeak colorpeak Sep 2422%
- 8,000–9,000 ftNearly peakpeak Sep 3027%
- 7,000–8,000 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 620%
- 6,000–7,000 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 1210%
Height off 3DEP inside the park’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the park stands in it.
That’s 1 day later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
The place
One of the least visited parks in the system, stuck in the remote Snake Range of eastern Nevada where nobody accidentally ends up. Lehman Caves hold more than 300 rare shield formations. The bristlecone pines on the ridgeline above have been alive for over 4,000 years, which puts your problems in perspective.
Established 1986. About 152,000/year visitors.
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.
Monday 5 October to Tuesday 6 October
You’ll find it fading up high, nearly peak lower down.
Up at 10,000 feet the stands peak around Sep 17; down at 7,000 feet they hold on until about Oct 12. Pick your elevation for the day you come.
- 10,000–11,000 ftFadingpeak Sep 17
- 9,000–10,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 24
- 8,000–9,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 30
- 7,000–8,000 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 6
- 6,000–7,000 ftNearly peakpeak Oct 12
- Where to drive
- Fish Lake Scenic Byway (UT 25), about 139 miles · Nebo Loop, about 148 miles
- What turns
- quaking aspen, Gambel oak
- Entrance
- No entrance fee
What turns, and when
- quaking aspen96%
- Gambel oak4%
Also named across Nevada, outside what the canopy read measures here: Fremont Cottonwood, Water Birch, Rocky Mountain Maple, Curlleaf Mountain Mahogany.
Aspens turn gold in isolated mountain ranges rising from the Great Basin, creating dramatic contrasts of bright yellow groves against sagebrush gray and limestone white.
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. Out here we score it against NASA's satellite record of when the canopy shuts down, read inside each unit’s own boundary: two dates in three land within 12 days of it. How this map is made