California Fall Color has posted a number of new updates today. Here are the highlights. Go to the website for photos
Yosemite National Park
Bold color remains to be enjoyed in Yosemite National Park though most of the maple and dogwood have another week of peak before they’re gone.
Wawona Road (CA-41 – south entrance) from Yosemite Valley to Glacier Point on Saturday and found the color from Tunnel View to Glacier Point to be “amazing. Golden oak dominated the mountain, dogwood and maples just turned.”
One of the most photographed fall color locations in the national park is Fern Spring. It is passed soon after entering the floor of Yosemite Valley (by CA-120 [north entrance] or CA-140 [west entrance]) and turning onto South Side Drive.
Fern Spring is tucked away in a small turnout surrounded by bigleaf maple, black oak and dogwood.
Fern Spring past peak, though the fallen leaves floating in its dark pool and occasional pink and yellow highlights from surrounding dogwood and bigleaf maple still make it worth visiting for a few more days.
Color along the Merced River is near past peak, though glimpses of beautiful color are still hanging in there.
Yosemite National Park – Peak (75-100%) GO NOW! – Best color to be seen is among the black oak at the base of Yosemite Falls.
Sequoia National Park
Autumn color is spackling the forest along Crystal Cave Road in Sequoia National Park, like paint on a palette.
Southern California color spotter Frank McDonough visited the park, yesterday, returning with these images of the roadside spectacle.
Sequoia National Park (5,000′) – Peak (75-100%) GO NOW!
Napa Valley
California’s longest lasting peak occurs in its vineyards.
Fall color begins peaking by grape variety in October and continues through November. “the whole area is alive with color,”
Napa Valley – Peak (75-100%) GO NOW!
Uvas Canyon
Uvas Canyon, near Morgan Hill in the southern Santa Cruz Mountains, is a cool, refreshing forested getaway for residents of Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Valley).
It is a Santa Clara County Park with 7.2 miles of hiking trails including a one-mile waterfall loop that travels along Swanson Creek past several waterfalls and cascades.
At peak, bigleaf maple provide bright yellow contrast to emerald mosses that grow upon boulders in the creek.
The maples nearly past peak, though still colorful.
The forest trail is carpeted with buff-colored spent leaves.
Uvas Canyon County Park, Morgan Hill – Peak (75-100%) GO NOW!
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