Where to Find This Week's Best Fall Colors...

Find this week's perfect fall adventure with a little help from your Minnesota Fall Color Update, brought to you by Explore Minnesota and Minnesota State Parks and Trails. You'll get this email Thursday afternoons during the peak fall color season, making it easier than ever to make every day a colorful fall adventure.

Peak fall color is lingering in many areas of northeast Minnesota. Bright yellow, peachy orange and crimson-red maple leaves can still be seen. The ash and aspen trees are bright yellow and rich golden-orange, brightening the landscape and creating a feeling of warmth. Along the north shore of Lake Superior, the birch and aspen are turning various shades of yellow.

• Temperance River State Park, Tofte
• Tettegouche State Park, Silver Bay
• Jay Cooke State Park, Carlton

Last weekend’s frost kick-started the fall color change. There are still a lot of green trees, but autumn shades of orange, yellow and gold are quickly taking over the forests. The understory maples are at their peak, and the birch, aspen and tamarack fill the parks with a golden-yellow glow.

• Lake Bemidji State Park, Bemidji
• Itasca State Park, Lake Itasca, north of Park Rapids
• Lake Bronson State Park, Lake Bronson, east of Hallock

The maple trees are quickly turning beautiful shades of orange, yellow and red due to recent frosts. The ash trees are a stunning yellow, and the oaks are taking on rust and burgundy tones. Overall, fall color is progressing quickly, with excellent views throughout central Minnesota parks.

• Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area, Ironton
• Maplewood State Park, Pelican Rapids
• Mille Lacs Kathio State Park, Onamia

Parks throughout the metro area are a patchwork of color. The ash trees are golden but some are shedding their leaves. The cottonwood, birch and hackberry trees are lightening and displaying lime-green and yellow leaves. Some maples are displaying vibrant red, orange and yellow leaves. Scarlet red leaves fill the sumac, gray dogwood and Virginia creeper vines.

• Fort Snelling State Park, St. Paul
• Wild River State Park, Center City, east of North Branch
• William O'Brien State Park, Marine on St. Croix

Yellow leaves are spreading through the ash, cottonwood and basswood trees. Brilliant crimson leaves highlight the sumac stands, and the vibrant red Virginia creeper vines climb up into the canopies of the trees. The native grasses remain various shades of red, purple and gold.

• Lac qui Parle State Park, Watson, northwest of Montevideo
• Blue Mounds State Park, Luverne
• Sakatah Lake State Park, Waterville, west of Faribault

Disclaimers: This year's fall color updates are a collaboration between Explore Minnesota and Minnesota State Parks and Trails. As a result, some subscribers may receive two copies of this newsletter. Some images in this email are representative of typical Minnesota fall color, not real-time photographs from this year.

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