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.
That’s 2 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.
Sunday 11 October to Monday 12 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- Where to drive
- Gunflint Trail (County Road 12), about 70 miles · Route 41 through Copper Country, about 118 miles · Brockway Mountain Drive, about 131 miles
- What turns
- sugar maple, paper birch, red maple, quaking aspen, yellow birch
What turns, and when
- sugar maple29%
- paper birch21%
- red maple19%
- quaking aspen12%
- yellow birch9%
- American beech9%
Also named across Wisconsin, outside what the canopy read measures here: Red Oak.
Wisconsin's Northwoods produce vivid sugar maple orange against birch gold and the dark green of hemlock and spruce, while the Mississippi River bluffs add a warm oak-and-hickory palette.
Across Wisconsin as a whole: Late September in the Northwoods, mid-October in Door County, early-to-mid October in the Driftless Area, late October in the south.
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 13 long-running forest cameras: two dates in three land within 9 days of the camera’s own peak. How this map is made