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Just because an area is reporting patchy color doesn’t mean it’s not yet beautiful, as these photos attest. We’ve often recommended looking to the ground for some of the best fall color. Color spotter Kimberly Kofala found this beautiful shot of grasses along the edge of Dunderberg Lake in Mono County, Joe Pollini, from Bishop provides his […]
Color spotters Susan Morning and Kevin Lennox sends these shots in and around Mammoth Lakes. Twin Lakes in the Mammoth Lakes Basin is glowing with color right now with brilliant red, orange, yellow and lime. Lara Kaylor of Mammoth Lakes Tourism says the color is showing nicely at the highest elevations and still developing below 8,000′. Warm […]
Steve Wolfe spent his Saturday in Bishop Creek Canyon where he took these photos of the color. Heavenly Mountain Resort at Lake Tahoe is reporting three inches of new snow, but the snows appear to have missed the Eastern Sierra, as evidenced by Steve Wolfe’s shots of Surveyor’s Meadow and Sabrina Lake. At Oak Lake […]
Color spotter Steve Wolfe is back chasing fall colors in the Eastern Sierra. Steve’s photography appeared last autumn on this blog and he’s back in the eastern Sierra scouting foliage from Big Pine to just below Bridgeport to the north. Steve reports what we believe is happening, that the quaking aspen are further along than […]
When the Los Angeles Times urges “Go Now!” instead of “Go Dodgers!,” something seismic just happened. In today’s LA Times Travel News & Deals, travel writer Mary Forgione selected five Go Now! destinations from this site to recommend to the paper’s readers. To read their report, CLICK HERE. Perhaps it was Jared Smith’s photos of Bishop […]
If you have longed to see full peak up Bishop Creek Canyon in the Eastern Sierra, but have missed it in the past, this is the week. GO NOW! Color Spotter Jared Smith of Parchers Resort reports “It is absolutely go-time for fall color chasers in the upper reaches of the Bishop Creek Canyon,” with […]
If CaliforniaFallColor.com has a purpose, it is to share the beauty of California’s autumn. That often means venturing to places we hadn’t known about before. I was called by a kindred spirit this week in the person of Casey Schreiner, editor and founder of Modern Hiker. I’ve admired Casey’s well-written and informative blog for some […]
Plumas County is typically a mid October peak, though we’re already seeing early reports of orange-red Indian Rhubarb along Rock Creek, off Bucks Lake Rd; gold and orange Black Oak leaves showing at Oakland Camp; bright yellow bigleaf maple on La Porte Road, rosy dogwood in Round Valley and brilliant red sugar maple leaves in Quincy. […]
Mono County gets credit for the first full peak report. Areas above 8,500′ in this Eastern Sierra county are now flush with orange and red. GO NOW! — Peak (75 — 100%) — Rock Creek — Rock Creek Lake and the Rock Creek Trail are now at full peak. Lower areas of Rock Creek Canyon at are […]
We’re feeling lucky today. Even though fall color has been visible in locations throughout California since August, Google’s search masthead today makes it official. Finally, it’s fall. In the past week, I traveled to attend a travel writer’s conference in Iceland. Though that Nordic country has much to its credit, Iceland’s fall color doesn’t hold a candle […]