Higher ground turns first, so the slopes above the road lead the valley by a few days.
2 reports came in from Teton County this week, 2 of them patchy color. Our date held. See the county on the map.
Still greenStartingNearly peakPeakPast peakNo fall canopy we forecastInside the line, each band of elevation is painted on its own date.
Around Winegar Hole Wilderness Nearly all of the wilderness is in Teton County, which is peak color today. That’s the county as a whole, which peaks 4 days earlier than the wilderness’s own stands: the wilderness is nearly peak.By elevation The wilderness runs from about 6,182 to 6,678 feet. That’s 4 days of season between the top and the bottom: the high stands peak around Sep 27, 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 6,000 to 6,250 foot band.
6,500–6,750 ftNearly peakpeak Sep 275%
6,250–6,500 ftNearly peakpeak Sep 2879%
6,000–6,250 ftNearly peakpeak Sep 2913%
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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 29 September to Wednesday 30 September
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
6,250–6,500 ftPeak colorpeak Sep 28
6,000–6,250 ftPeak colorpeak Sep 29
Where to drive
Teton Scenic Byway (ID 31, 32 and 33), about 27 miles · Teton Park Road, about 28 miles · Chief Joseph Scenic Byway (WY 296), about 88 miles
What turns
narrowleaf cottonwood, quaking aspen, willow, thinleaf alder, water birch
What turns, and when
narrowleaf cottonwood31%
quaking aspen27%
willow21%
thinleaf alder10%
water birch10%
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
