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 Manti-La Sal National Forest San Juan County holds most of the forest and is nearly peak today. Emery County, to the northwest, is 6 days ahead. Sanpete County, to the northwest, is 10 days ahead.By elevation The forest runs from about 5,277 to 9,935 feet. That’s 31 days of season between the top and the bottom: the high stands peak around Sep 19, the low ground holds until about Oct 20, and the color comes downhill in between. The date at the top of this page is the 8,000 to 9,000 foot band.
10,000–11,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 194%
9,000–10,000 ftPeak colorpeak Sep 2415%
8,000–9,000 ftNearly peakpeak Sep 3020%
7,000–8,000 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 717%
6,000–7,000 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 1424%
5,000–6,000 ftStill greenpeak Oct 2019%
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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 1 day later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
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.
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
