Peak color, most of the stand14 OctAim for 13 to 16 Oct
In the forest today, Sep 25Starting to turn
red maple and sugar maple
northern red oak, peak Oct 21
Peak color should arrive around 12 Oct for the red maple and sugar maple, and around 21 Oct for the northern red oak.
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 forecastInside the line, each band of elevation is painted on its own date.
Around Finger Lakes National Forest Schuyler County holds most of the forest and is starting to turn today. Seneca County, to the north, is 1 day behind.By elevation The forest runs from about 1,126 to 1,799 feet. That’s 2 days of season between the top and the bottom: the high stands peak around Oct 13, the low ground holds until about Oct 15, and the color comes downhill in between. The date at the top of this page is the 1,250 to 1,500 foot band.
1,750–2,000 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 1311%
1,500–1,750 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 1339%
1,250–1,500 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 1434%
1,000–1,250 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 1517%
SepOctNov
Height off 3DEP inside the forest’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the forest stands in it.
That’s 2 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.
Tuesday 13 October to Wednesday 14 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
1,750–2,000 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 13
1,500–1,750 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 13
1,250–1,500 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 14
1,000–1,250 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 15
Where to drive
Letchworth Gorge Road (Park Road), about 62 miles · Route 30 (Great Northern Catskills), about 122 miles · Route 6 through Allegheny National Forest, about 122 miles
What turns
red maple, northern red oak, sugar maple, shagbark hickory, blackgum
What turns, and when
red maple30%
northern red oak20%
sugar maple20%
shagbark hickory10%
blackgum10%
tulip poplar10%
Also named across New York, outside what the canopy read measures here: American Beech, Yellow Birch.
The Adirondacks produce color as vivid as anywhere in New England, with sugar maples blazing orange across mountainsides of birch gold and beech bronze, all reflected in thousands of lakes.
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
