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National Forest·Utah·55,510 acres

Desert Range Exp. Station Experimental Area

Forecast issued Nov 10, 7:57am ET

We don’t forecast fall color here. Measured turning canopy covers 0.00% of this unit, below the 0.5% we forecast on. Our model reads latitude and elevation and will happily produce a date for anywhere; publishing one here would be a category error rather than an uncertain forecast, so we don’t.

I-15MilfordGreat Basinpeak Oct 6Desert Range Exp. Station Experimental Area
Great Basinpeak Oct 6Desert Range Exp. Station Experimental Area
Still greenStartingNearly peakPeakPast peakNo fall canopy we forecast
Around Desert Range Exp. Station Experimental Area The area is outlined. The counties around it are painted by how far along their color is today, Nov 10.
Today from the nevcanspg4a camera, 6 km from Desert Range Exp. Station Experimental Area
See it now PhenoCam Network, NevCAN Snake Range Subalpine West camera, 6 km away, captured Nov 9.

That’s 2 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.

Plan this trip

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.

Tuesday, October 20 to Wednesday, October 21

You’ll find it peak color.

That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.

Where to drive
Fish Lake Scenic Byway (UT 25), about 111 miles · Boulder Mountain (UT 12), about 132 miles · Nebo Loop, about 135 miles
What turns
quaking aspen, Gambel oak, bigtooth maple, serviceberry

What turns, and when

Also named across Utah, outside what the canopy read measures here: Narrowleaf Cottonwood, Rocky Mountain Maple.

Utah's fall is a dual show: aspens turn gold on the high plateaus while bigtooth maples along the Wasatch Front go vivid scarlet, creating one of the most colorful mountain fronts in the West.

Across Utah as a whole: Late September at high elevations, early-to-mid October along the Wasatch Front.

Questions people ask about Desert Range Exp. Station Experimental Area

When is peak fall foliage at Desert Range Exp. Station Experimental Area?

We don’t forecast fall color at Desert Range Exp. Station Experimental Area. Measured turning canopy covers 0.00% of this unit, below the 0.5% we forecast on. Publishing a modeled date here would be a category error rather than an uncertain forecast.

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

All of Utah

Nearby, and when they turn

Great Basin is on the map above, with its own date.

  1. Fishlake National ForestUT · about 94 miles
    Peak Oct 7 best Oct 6 to 9
  2. Dixie National ForestUT · about 95 miles
    Peak Oct 17 best Oct 16 to 19
  3. Zion National ParkUT · about 103 miles
    Peak Oct 25 best Oct 24 to 27
  4. Bryce Canyon National ParkUT · about 114 miles
    Peak Oct 21 best Oct 20 to 23
  5. Box-Death Hollow WildernessUT · about 129 miles
    Peak Oct 21 best Oct 20 to 23

Fall color roads near Desert Range Exp. Station Experimental Area

Nearest first. Distances are straight-line from the area, so allow more by road.

  • Fish Lake Scenic Byway (UT 25) · about 111 miles, UT · 13 miles of road

    Pando, the largest aspen clone on earth, along the lake.

  • Boulder Mountain (UT 12) · about 132 miles, UT · 32 miles of road

    Torrey to Boulder over the aspen plateau, with Capitol Reef below.

  • Nebo Loop · about 135 miles, UT · 38 miles of road

    Payson to Nephi around Mount Nebo, maple scarlet first and then aspen gold.