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.
- 1,000–1,250 ftStill greenpeak Oct 2310%
- 750–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Oct 2468%
- 500–750 ftStill greenpeak Oct 2522%
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 4 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
Plan this tripIf you can only come on certain days
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Friday 23 October to Saturday 24 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- 1,000–1,250 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 23
- 750–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 24
- 500–750 ftPeak colorpeak Oct 25
- Where to drive
- Hocking Hills Scenic Byway (Route 374), about 30 miles · Highland Scenic Highway (Route 150), about 124 miles
- What turns
- white oak, red maple, northern red oak, shagbark hickory, tulip poplar
What turns, and when
- white oak30%
- red maple20%
- northern red oak19%
- shagbark hickory10%
- tulip poplar5%
- sweetgum5%
Also named across Ohio, outside what the canopy read measures here: Sugar Maple, American Beech.
Hocking Hills' sandstone gorges frame sugar maples in vivid orange, red oaks turn deep burgundy across the unglaciated Appalachian Plateau, and beeches fade to bronze in the ravines.
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 16 long-running forest cameras: two dates in three land within 7 days of the camera’s own peak. How this map is made