Foliage

About this site and where the pictures come from

The sources, the dates and the care behind the pictures.

This site gathers photographs and camera stills of autumn colour across the Northeast and beyond, each with the day it was taken, along with a few live cameras and the forecasters’ guesses at when each place will peak, so that you can see where the colour is before you drive. The pictures come from the people and the cameras named beside them. New pictures show faintly on the map, marked as not yet looked at, until a person has, and leave it after eight days if no one does; the rest stay only after a look. Nothing here is a promise of what you will find: a storm, a frost or a week of wind can change a valley in a day.

How the pictures are chosen

The daily search looks for recent photographs with a place and a date. A weekly look checks the wider set of places, cameras and reports. The saved notes say what each picture shows, where and when it was taken, and whether leaves can be seen clearly.

A photograph can show one tree, a park or a distant hillside. Its date and photographer stay beside it; a camera’s saved picture keeps its recorded day and time. Colour in a photograph is never a count of trees that have turned.

The daily check

New pictures are looked for every morning at about 7:23, Eastern time. A check can finish later or miss a day; the dates beside the pictures show what is available.

The last check finished on . That was more than a day before this page was made, so the newest pictures may be older than usual.

Sources and terms

Each photograph keeps its own credit and terms. A link to a picture or a player gives no permission to copy it.

Berkshire East
Bousquet / Streamedian
CAMNET
Chronolog
Connecticut state reporting
Directory of independent resort operators
Directory of local camera operators
EarthCam
Eastern Townships tourism / Québec colour reporting
Explore Fall / The Foliage Report
Flickr

A colourful view ↗

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Gangie (pronounced GangGe)

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An old silo ↗

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pegase1972

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Day 280/365 in 2026 ↗

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Gangie (pronounced GangGe)

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Sunset Rock ↗

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MecCanon

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Woodland near Plevna ↗

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Gangie (pronounced GangGe)

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Yesterdays colour ↗

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Gangie (pronounced GangGe)

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Friends of Algonquin / Ontario Parks source family
I LOVE NY spotters
iNaturalist
IPTimelapse delivery; distinct local hosts and views

Jackman airport tree line ↗

No image copying permission is stated here.

Newton Field Airport camera; local camera operator not independently identified · Newton Field Airport camera

Jeff Foliage and credited photographers
Jiminy Peak
Killington / Roundshot
Maine DACF directory; original hosts vary
Maine Forest Service
Massachusetts DCR
Mohawk Mountain
Mont Orford
Moosehead local camera collection
More Than Just Parks
Multiple local operators
Multiple operators; check each player credit
New England Trail Conditions
OntarioFall; includes Friends of Algonquin and Ontario Parks inputs
Owl’s Head
Pennsylvania DCNR
PhenoCam
Pocono Mountains / WMVision
Québec ski directory; original hosts vary
Québec tourism
Rhode Island tourism
RIDOT South County cameras
Skaping / Bromont
Ski Butternut / RTSP.me
Ski Sundown / YouTube
Stratton; YouTube and CamStreamer delivery
USGS station 01115183
USGS station 01184000
Vermont state reporting
Visit NH
Visit Vermont / Deerfield Valley foliage tracker
Wachusett
WFSB; some cameras use Earth Networks
Whiteface
Wikimedia Commons
Yankee
YouTube
Saved camera photographs

Pictures: Acadia National Park / National Park Service Air Resources Program

Pictures: PhenoCam Network and the site camera operators

Acknowledgments

Copernicus asks us to say:

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026.

Flickr asks us to say:

This product uses the Flickr API but is not endorsed or certified by SmugMug, Inc.

NASA asks us to say:

We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).

The PhenoCam network asks us to say:

Research at Harvard Forest is partially supported through the National Science Foundation’s LTER program (DEB-1237491).

CUNY Advanced Science Research Center; Black Rock Forest

This research is in part sponsored by the Food Systems Research Center at the University of Vermont.

Data used in this research were provided by the PhenoCam Network, which has been supported by the Northeastern States Research Cooperative, the National Science Foundation, the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network supported by the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and operated under cooperative agreement by Battelle, the U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory managed by UT-Battelle, the U.S. National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program, the USA National Phenology Network, and the North Central Climate Science Center of the United States Geological Survey.

The Harvard EMS site is supported is an AmeriFlux core site supported by the AmeriFlux Management Project with funding by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and a part of the Harvard Forest LTER site supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB-1237491).

Research at the Boston Common is supported by an Emerson College Faculty Advancement Funds Grant.

Lamont Chevron Student Initiative Fund.

Temple Ambler Field Station.

Research at Howland Forest is supported by the Office of Science (BER), US Department of Energy, and the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station.

The NEON Data Usage and Citation Policy can be found at: http://data.neonscience.org/data-policy. NEON is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and operated under cooperative agreement by Battelle.

Research at the asuhighlands site is supported by the National Science Foundation (grant DUE-IUSE 1525108) and by the Department of Biology at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

Logistical support is provided by the Woods Hole Research Center.

We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Research at the Coweeta flux tower is funded through the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station; USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Foundational Program, award number 2012-67019-19484; EPA agreement number 13-IA-11330140-044; and the National Science Foundation, Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, award #DEB-0823293.

CUNY Advanced Science Research Center's Next Generation Environmental Sensor Lab

Research at the preserve is supported by the NSF Award #145544: Collaborative Research: IDBR: TYPE A. The NANAPHID: A novel aphid-like nanosensor network for real-time measurements of carbohydrates in live plant tissue, and the NSF MRI Award #72205: Acquisition of a Small Unmanned Aircraft System of Natural and Urban Ecosystem Studies and Risk Disaster Management

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Study of carbon budgets in natural and disturbed wetlands in southern Québec - part of action 1.13.1.1 of the MELCCFPs 2030 Plan for a Green Economy

Research at the Morgan-Monroe Ameriflux site is supported by the US Departement of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research throuth the Ameriflux Management Project administered by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

NSF, NASA, and LiCor LEEF grant

Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Hudson River Foundation, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Research at the Penn State Sone Valley Forest is supported by the National Science Foundation EAR 07-25019 (C. Duffy), and EAR 12-39285, EAR 13-31726 (S. Brantley) for the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory and the College of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management.

Funding for the Shenandoah PhenoCam and related research has been provided by the U.S. Geological Survey Land Change Science Program (Shenandoah National Park Phenology Project) with logistical support from the National Park Service in collaboration with the University of Virginia Department of Environmental Sciences.

West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences research infrastructure grant to Brenden McNeil and Edward Brzostek

Support for US-Syv is provided from the ChEAS Core Site Cluster by the DOE Office of Science Ameriflux Network Management Project

National Science Foundation (#1920908, #2222437) and USDA-NIFA (#1006997)

Research at this site was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, Canadian Foundation of Innovation (CFI), Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI) and Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP). Support from Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (OMNRF), St Williams Conservation Reserve Community Council (SWCRCC), Long Point Conservation Authority (LPRCA), Whitside family and McMaster University is also acknowledged.

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada, McMaster University, McMaster Carbon Sink Forest, Nature at McMaster, Trees for Hamilton, Trees for Life

We acknowledge the Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt University for providing funding support.

Phenological monitoring at this site is supported by the National Science Foundation (DUE 1525063) and the Warren Wilson College Forest.

Research at the Willow Creek Ameriflux core site is provided by the Dept. Of Energy Office of Science to the ChEAS Cluster

West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and the Town of Granville

Supported by the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Vermont

University of Vermont

E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship to Mark Vellend, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN and RTI grants to Mark Vellend