When is peak fall color at Wellsville Mountain Wilderness?

Our forecast puts peak color at Wellsville Mountain Wilderness around 14 Oct. The four days to aim for are 13 to 16 Oct. We publish our error rate.

Wellsville Mountain Wilderness Fall Foliage: 2026 Peak Color Forecast

Q: What trees turn color at Wellsville Mountain Wilderness?

Quaking Aspen, Bigtooth Maple, Gambel Oak, 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.

Peak color14 OctAim for 13 to 16 Oct

In the wilderness today, Sep 25Starting to turn

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 Wellsville Mountain Wilderness Box Elder County holds most of the wilderness and is starting to turn today. Cache County, to the east, is 3 days ahead.

By elevation The wilderness runs from about 4,762 to 8,339 feet. That’s 25 days of season between the top and the bottom: the high stands peak around Sep 22, the low ground holds until about Oct 17, and the color comes downhill in between. The date at the top of this page is the 4,000 to 5,000 foot band.

8,000–9,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 2210%
7,000–8,000 ftNearly peakpeak Sep 2821%
6,000–7,000 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 434%
5,000–6,000 ftStarting to turnpeak Oct 1028%
4,000–5,000 ftStill greenpeak Oct 177%

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.

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.

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Tuesday 13 October to Wednesday 14 October

You’ll find it leaves down up high, just past peak lower down.

Up at 8,000 feet the stands peak around Sep 22; down at 6,000 feet they hold on until about Oct 10. Pick your elevation for the day you come.

8,000–9,000 ftLeaves downpeak Sep 22
7,000–8,000 ftFadingpeak Sep 28
6,000–7,000 ftJust past peakpeak Oct 4
5,000–6,000 ftJust past peakpeak Oct 10

Where to drive: Logan Canyon (US 89), about 28 miles · Guardsman Pass, about 75 miles · Mirror Lake Highway (UT 150), about 82 miles
What turns: bigtooth maple, quaking aspen, Gambel oak

What turns, and when

bigtooth maple54%
quaking aspen23%
Gambel oak23%

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

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