Leaf peeping time soon. (Fall Colors) (Boulder, Twin Lakes: 2015, home, county)

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by Neditate

Fall color is running around 10 days later than usual around the Nederland area and Peak to Peak byway. Drove south to Hwy 6 on Monday and there were very few trees with any color. Drove north several miles past Ward yesterday, not much color that way either. If we get some cold nights that should kick the aspen into gear.
https://www.9news.com/article/weathe...e-557f687d5ff2

Keep us posted, please! We got permission from my husband's oncologist to take a drive to the mountains (not supposed to be more than 20 mi. from the clinic) to see the leaves. We want to go when they're really nice.

[Mike Weber]

Here is a good site to watch for color in the Crested Butte area:
https://travelcrestedbutte.com/crest...color-updates/

[Gorges]

Originally Posted by Mike Weber

Here is a good site to watch for color in the Crested Butte area:
https://travelcrestedbutte.com/crest...color-updates/

Thank you, this is great! Woods Walk looks nice right now. This will be the first time in 4 years that we won't be in Crested Butte in late September. Sad about that.

[otowi]

Went up to Teller County today and the fall color is starting to happen but quite sporadic. We found a few pockets at full color, majority are somewhere between completely green and a hint of yellow, and some looking like they're going to go brown rather than give color - a wide mix.

[BarryK123]

I was up in Summit Co this morning. Along I-70 on the east side of the tunnel, there are clumps of golden aspens in the pine forest above 10K ft. The aspens in and around Silverthrone/Dillon still have green leaves.

[Mike Weber]

There were many patches of color between Gould and Rustic over Cameron Pass yesterday (Monday, 23 September) and in the Colorado State Forest State Park, but still lots of green leaves too. The undergrowth is changing nicely.
Perhaps by this next weekend the color in the trees will be more vibrant.

[Dreaming of Hawaii]

We just drove up I-70 today and a lot of leaves had turned. All along the road from Empire on up. Lake Dillion area especially gorgeous, as was the drive from Copper Mountain to Leadville.

There were large patches of bright yellow leaves, then smaller patches of green leaves and some just turning.

[EastwardBound]

Was up the Poudre today and there’s sporty color. Some groves are at peak and some have yet to begin to change. Nice color at Big South Trail.

[Vision67]

Fall colors expected to peak in the mountains this weekend

https://theknow.denverpost.com/2019/...9-peak/224912/

"It might be in the 80s along the Front Range this week, but peak fall colors are getting closer and closer in the mountains.

While patchy fall colors have been spotted across the higher terrain over the last few days, “near peak” conditions are expected this weekend, based on a new and detailed fall foliage prediction website’s forecast.

The website SmokyMountains.com’s hyper-local fall color map shows Colorado’s peak mountain colors arriving over the next two weekends, with peak colors perhaps likeliest around the weekend of Oct. 5. The website uses 40,000 visual data points based on past weather and official government-issued weather forecasts to produce the foliage maps.

“Although the scientific concept of how leaves change colors is fairly simple, predicting the precise moment the event will occur is extremely challenging,” SmokyMountains.com data scientist and CTO Wes Melton said. “The major factors impacting peak fall are sunlight, precipitation, soil moisture and temperature. Although we cannot control Mother Nature and ensure 100 percent accuracy, our data sources are top-tier and each year we refine our algorithmic model achieving higher accuracy over time.”

The same website predicts eastern Colorado’s peak colors to bloom between Oct. 19 and 26.

If recent weather is anything to go off of, then this year’s fall color show could be an especially bright one. Cool nights and warm days, coupled with a wet growing season and dry end to summer make extra colorful fall leaves more likely. In general, Colorado has experienced all of those weather criteria, helping fuel extra anticipation for this season’s fall foliage show.

It’ll also feel a bit more fall-like this weekend, with temperatures statewide expected to cool to more typical late September levels behind a cold front later this week."

[waltcolorado]

Pictures from South Park Elevenmile res today. Still a few days, maybe a week before peak.