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Color spotters Nick and Alena Barnhart traveled this past weekend to Oak Glen, an area in Southern California that we’ve not covered previously. Oak Glen (Near Peak — 50 — 75%) — The orchard and farming community of Oak Glen, east of Yucaipa is in the midst of harvest, with apples, pumpkins and other fruits and […]
Reports from Mono County are indicating strong winds tonight. Though, will that mean color will be gone with the wind? Mono County had a spectacular past weekend for color and peak conditions continue in several areas. Color spotter Alicia Vennos reports a few areas of the Eastern Sierra at lower elevations have yet to turn, […]
True to its reputation for great fall color, Plumas County leads the Shasta Cascade with the region’s first GO NOW! alert. Color spotter Lisa May sends this update, appended with additional reports from color spotters and local sites. Also, several fall events are listed for those planning trips to the northern Sierra and southern Cascades. […]
Lara Kaylor of Mammoth Lakes reports the color this past weekend was ridiculously good. Proof is evident from these great shots taken in Mono County (Eastern Sierra) by Lara, Steve Wolfe and Susan Holt at Mammoth Creek, McGee Creek, Lundy Canyon, June Lake Loop and Conway Summit. Though (Say it isn’t so!), Lara warns of strong […]
San Bernardino Mountains (Peak 75 — 100%) — Lake Gregory, Grass Valley Lake, Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear — key fall color destinations in the San Bernardino Mountains — were peaking this weekend, as these photographs taken by Nick Barnhart illustrate. Great fall color isn’t just found in the Sierra Nevada. The San Bernardinos are simply glorious, […]
Color spotter Crys Black drove Hwy 88 across Carson Pass, though Hope Valley, over Monitor Pass and Conway Summit before staying the night in Mammoth Lakes, sending these images. Cry reports that the Hope Valley and Conway Summit have matured to red and orange with a little yellow. From these photos, it looks like this was […]
This autumn has had ideal conditions for development of spectacular color: warm, sunny days, cold nights and very little wind, rain or snow. That’s resulted in lush color throughout California. Comparing 2014 to 2013, the color is peaking a half week to a week earlier. If drought has had any influence on color development, it may […]
One of the fun ways to see fall color is to drive off-highway on a Jeep road. Color spotter Steve Wolfe has been doing that this week and brought back these fabulous shots of his trip by 4wd up Laurel Canyon, south of Mammoth Lakes. Steve reported, “The entire canyon is at-peak, with some aspen […]
Every area of the vast Shasta Cascade region of northeast California is reporting patchy conditions with reds, oranges and yellows beginning to show among the Indian Rhubarb, bigleaf maple, aspen, dogwood, black oaks and alder. Patchy (10-50%) — Plumas County — Unlike the upper reaches of the Eastern Sierra in which some groves went from first to worst […]
Patchy (10 — 50%) — Santa Cruz Mountains — Summit Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains is showing early signs of color with mountain maple tinged with yellow, the edges of green black oak leaves painted with orange and yellow and spots of crimson poison oak in the woods. Grape vines are showing early signs of yellow, […]