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 Mount Naomi Wilderness Nearly all of the wilderness is in Cache County, which is nearly peak today. That’s the county as a whole, which peaks 6 days earlier than the wilderness’s own stands: the wilderness is starting to turn.By elevation The wilderness runs from about 5,771 to 9,018 feet. That’s 23 days of season between the top and the bottom: the high stands peak around Sep 16, the low ground holds until about Oct 9, and the color comes downhill in between. The date at the top of this page is the 5,000 to 6,000 foot band.
9,000–10,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 165%
8,000–9,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 2125%
7,000–8,000 ftNearly peakpeak Sep 2735%
6,000–7,000 ftNearly peakpeak Oct 326%
5,000–6,000 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 98%
SepOctNov
Height off 3DEP inside the wilderness’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the wilderness stands in it.
That’s 1 day 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 6 October to Wednesday 7 October
You’ll find it fading up high, nearly peak lower down.
Up at 8,000 feet the stands peak around Sep 21; down at 6,000 feet they hold on until about Oct 9. Pick your elevation for the day you come.
8,000–9,000 ftFadingpeak Sep 21
7,000–8,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 27
6,000–7,000 ftJust past peakpeak Oct 3
5,000–6,000 ftNearly peakpeak Oct 9
Where to drive
Logan Canyon (US 89), about 9 miles · Guardsman Pass, about 89 miles · Mirror Lake Highway (UT 150), about 89 miles
What turns
quaking aspen, bigtooth maple, Gambel oak
What turns, and when
quaking aspen44%
bigtooth maple40%
Gambel oak16%
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
