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Big Pocono overlook area

Autumn Guide ↗ expects the peak at Mount Tammany around October 21. The estimate is for that one spot; slopes higher or lower nearby can turn earlier or later.

Photographs of Big Pocono overlook area and the country around it, anywhere within 25 miles of Big Pocono overlook area, newest first. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

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Young sassafras trees gone orange and gold under a taller tree turning bronze, at a woodland edge. — Sassafras gone orange, Tannersville
Photograph · October 4, 2026
Photograph by ellecallia · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Tannersville, Pennsylvania
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Green and yellow leaves line both banks of a creek beneath a footbridge; fallen leaves lie on the rocks. — Bushkill Falls wooded creek
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by Jemlnlx · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved ↗
Bushkill Falls area, Pennsylvania
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A tall sycamore whose crown has gone pale yellow-green over woods where some trees are turning gold. — Sycamore crown turning pale, Blairstown
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by jesstowery · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Blairstown, New Jersey
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A rustic boardwalk crosses above a cascade among hemlocks and hardwoods still mostly green, with a few yellow leaves on the water. — Bushkill Falls boardwalk, first yellow
Photograph · October 2, 2026
Photograph by Jemlnlx · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Bushkill Falls boardwalk, Pennsylvania
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Looking down from a height, the river curves between steep hills of solid green forest, a freight train along the far bank. — Lehigh River valley above Jim Thorpe
Photograph · September 19, 2026
Photograph by MaraWanders · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Lehigh River at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
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The river runs past banks of green trees under a grey sky, with a single red crown at the water's edge. — Lehigh River with one red tree
Photograph · September 19, 2026
Photograph by MaraWanders · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Lehigh River at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
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From Lookout Rock the river runs through the gap below Mount Tammany, both slopes thick with green summer forest and the interstate along the near bank. — Delaware Water Gap from Lookout Rock
Photograph · September 8, 2026
Photograph by Dough4872 · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Lookout Rock on Mount Minsi
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The main fall drops into a dark pool between tall hemlocks and hardwoods all in full green summer leaf. — Bushkill Falls in late-August green
Photograph · August 28, 2026
Photograph by sgv cats and dogs · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Bushkill Falls, Pennsylvania
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Earlier autumns

Taken between mid-September and mid-November in earlier years, these show how the season runs here.

2025

A row of maples in orange and gold stands at a field edge, with yellow trees glowing through mist on the slope behind. — Maples in morning mist, Hardwick
Photograph · October 28, 2025
Photograph by T. Brian Hager · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Hardwick Township, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, New Jersey
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A wooden footbridge crosses a rocky stream under tall trees gone yellow and gold, with fallen leaves in the water. — Footbridge on the Minsi trail
Photograph · October 28, 2025
Photograph by sgt_pompous · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mount Minsi trail, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania
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Mount Tammany's slopes are rust, red and orange from top to bottom, with fog filling the river gap below at sunrise. — Mount Tammany above river fog
Photograph · October 28, 2025
Photograph by sgt_pompous · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mount Tammany from Mount Minsi, Delaware Water Gap
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The town's depot, courthouse and mansions sit beside the river among orange, gold and green trees, with a steam train in the station. — Jim Thorpe from above, full colour
Photograph · October 25, 2025
Photograph by emdgt22 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Jim Thorpe depot and Lehigh River, Pennsylvania
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A steep hillside of orange, red, yellow and green trees rises from the still river and doubles in the water under heavy cloud. — Delaware River below a slope in full colour
Photograph · October 22, 2025
Photograph by Jerry Flynn · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Delaware River in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
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An old wooden gate opens onto a goldenrod meadow in fog, with orange, red and yellow trees mixed with pines on the slope behind. — Old gate on a misty meadow
Photograph · October 21, 2025
Photograph by Jerry Flynn · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
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A rocky ridge path runs past boulders under a pitch pine and oaks, with yellow, orange and red woods and blueberry beyond. — Crater Lake trail on the ridge
Photograph · October 20, 2025
Photograph by Jerry Flynn · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Trail to Crater Lake, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, New Jersey
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Yellow and rust-colored foreground crowns frame a broad plateau panorama, with thinning branches visible. — Big Pocono in October 2025
Photograph · October 18, 2025
Photograph by imartin92 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved ↗
Big Pocono overlook area, Pennsylvania
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The main fall drops past dark rock below a viewing deck, with birches and maples above turned bright yellow and a few still green. — Bushkill Falls under yellow birches
Photograph · October 18, 2025
Photograph by PMillera4 · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ↗
Bushkill Falls, Pennsylvania
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Morning sun lights a steep hillside just turning, green with yellow, orange and rust patches, above the calm river. — Lehigh River below turning slopes
Photograph · October 5, 2025
Photograph by kateandress · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Lehigh River at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
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A steam train rounds a bend through the gorge, the wooded walls still green with a few yellow trees in mid-September. — Excursion train in the Lehigh Gorge
Photograph · September 13, 2025
Photograph by Vincent Colombo · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Lehigh Gorge near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
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2024

A steep wooded bank rises over the still Delaware, its hardwoods still green with a few crowns yellowing and the trees doubled in the water. — Wallpack Bend riverbank
Photograph · September 20, 2024
Photograph by Famartin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Wallpack Bend
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2013

A leaf-strewn trail runs through open woods of yellow, orange and red hardwoods with some green still in the undergrowth. — Appalachian Trail toward Mount Minsi
Photograph · October 18, 2013
Photograph by Nicholas A. Tonelli from Northeast Pennsylvania, USA · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Appalachian Trail from Totts Gap to Mount Minsi
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2012

The Lehigh River runs over a riffle below a steep mountainside of orange, gold and green hardwoods, with yellow trees crowding both banks. — Lehigh River below a turning mountain
Photograph · October 20, 2012
Photograph by Jonathansammy · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Lehigh River at Jim Thorpe
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2008

Mount Tammany's cliffs and scree rise out of a slope of orange, rust and yellow hardwoods, seen past a rail fence and a yellow tree. — Mount Tammany from the Pennsylvania side
Photograph · November 2, 2008
Photograph by Justin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Mount Tammany
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2007

Mount Tammany's banded cliffs rise across the gap under a hardwood forest still mostly green, touched with rust and gold, with oak leaves turning in the foreground. — Mount Tammany across the Delaware Water Gap
Photograph · October 15, 2007
Photograph by Nicholas A. Tonelli from Pennsylvania, USA · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Mount Tammany across the Delaware Water Gap
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The falls pour over dark rock into a pool beneath a slope of hemlocks and broadleaf trees still fully green. — Bushkill Falls in its green gorge
Photograph · October 3, 2007
Photograph by CyberXRef · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC0
Bushkill Falls
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2005

Bare saplings and rust-coloured brush lead to a harvested field and low wooded hills with only a few red and yellow crowns left. — Water Gap fields and bare hills
Photograph · November 13, 2005
Photograph by Nicholas A. Tonelli from Pennsylvania, USA · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Delaware Water Gap
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