Higher ground turns first, so the slopes above the road lead the valley by a few days.
Weather Hard frost Tuesday night. Peak may come early and go fast.
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 Bridger-Teton National Forest Sublette County holds most of the forest and is just past peak today. Teton County, to the northwest, is 5 days behind. Lincoln County, to the southwest, is 6 days behind.By elevation The forest runs from about 6,843 to 10,133 feet. That’s 26 days of season between the top and the bottom: the high stands peak around Sep 3, the low ground holds until about Sep 29, 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 ftLeaves downpeak Sep 36%
9,000–10,000 ftFadingpeak Sep 1121%
8,000–9,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 1733%
7,000–8,000 ftPeak colorpeak Sep 2332%
6,000–7,000 ftNearly peakpeak Sep 297%
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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.
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Wednesday 16 September to Thursday 17 September
You’ll find it just past peak up high, nearly peak lower down.
Up at 9,000 feet the stands peak around Sep 11; down at 8,000 feet they hold on until about Sep 23. Pick your elevation for the day you come.
9,000–10,000 ftJust past peakpeak Sep 11
8,000–9,000 ftPeak colorpeak Sep 17
7,000–8,000 ftNearly peakpeak Sep 23
Where to drive
Teton Park Road, about 42 miles · Teton Scenic Byway (ID 31, 32 and 33), about 58 miles · Chief Joseph Scenic Byway (WY 296), about 115 miles
What turns
quaking aspen, narrowleaf cottonwood, willow, water birch, thinleaf alder
What turns, and when
quaking aspen44%
narrowleaf cottonwood26%
willow17%
water birch9%
thinleaf alder5%
Every one of these turns yellow or gold here. The shades only tell the species apart.
Also named across Wyoming, outside what the canopy read measures here: Rocky Mountain Maple.
The Tetons rising above the golden cottonwoods of the Snake River flats is one of the most famous fall landscapes in the American West, and the aspen groves at elevation add hillsides of gold.
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
