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Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain

Autumn Guide ↗ put the peak at Mount Philo State Park around October 8. That day has gone, so the newest pictures below are the truer guide to what is left on the trees.

Photographs of Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain and the country around it, anywhere within 25 miles of Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, newest first. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

Photographs by date

A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Maples near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by thatcherciara · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Sugar maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by ardenalexah11 · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Sugar maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by mlpdessbb1234 · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Sugar maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by Zoe Reider · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Striped maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by johannacook · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Maples near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by Elizabeth Howe · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Sugar maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by mollybernard · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph taken near Appalachian Gap (Vermont Route 17) on Oct 11, 2026. — Camel's Hump
Photograph · October 11, 2026
Photograph by found_drama · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ↗
Appalachian Gap (Vermont Route 17)
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A white-barked birch with thin yellow and green leaves, leaning over the lake with the Adirondacks beyond. — Paper birch over Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 4, 2026
Photograph by emendela · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Vermont
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Inside a hardwood forest whose canopy is mixed green and yellow, with fresh fallen leaves over the floor. — Hardwood forest turning yellow, Jericho
Photograph · October 4, 2026
Photograph by Bear · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Jericho, Vermont
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A tall ash by the water, green below and turning yellow at the top, with orange shrubs at its foot. — Tall ash yellowing at the top, Colchester
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by ChristianLovesTrees · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Colchester, Vermont
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A thin waterfall drops through mist between slopes of orange and yellow trees, a few still green. — Smugglers’ Notch waterfall in mist
Photograph · October 2, 2026
Photograph by joes_shots · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch, Vermont
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Earlier autumns

Taken between early September and late October in earlier years, these show how the season runs here.

2025

Copper beech leaves and one bright yellow crown line the curving road while the slopes above are mostly bare. — Smugglers’ Notch road in late colour
Photograph · October 27, 2025
Photograph by Daniel Hischer · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch road, Vermont
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Sun lights a tunnel of yellow beech and birch over the road, some crowns already thinning. — Smugglers’ Notch road in sunlit yellow
Photograph · October 9, 2025
Photograph by hansntareen · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch road, Vermont
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A car squeezes between the notch's great boulders under yellow and half-bare trees, with the cliffs above. — Smugglers’ Notch boulders and yellow birches
Photograph · October 8, 2025
Photograph by hansntareen · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch road, Vermont
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The road climbs under a canopy of yellow and pale orange trees, with a hillside of colour ahead. — Smugglers’ Notch road under yellow trees
Photograph · October 8, 2025
Photograph by hansntareen · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch road, Vermont
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The great farm barn with its turrets sits below a wooded hill mostly green, touched with yellow and orange, and one orange maple on the lawn. — Shelburne Farms barn below a turning wood
Photograph · October 1, 2025
Photograph by mudder_bbc · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, Vermont
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2020

Seen from straight above, the notch road winds through a solid canopy of red, orange, yellow and a little green. — Smugglers' Notch road from above
Photograph · October 1, 2020
Photograph by Anthony Quintano from Mount Laurel, United States · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Smuggler's Notch, Vermont
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2017

A small tree has turned bright red among green evergreens on the mountain's upper western slope. — Maple Ridge Trail, Mount Mansfield
Photograph · September 11, 2017
Photograph by Famartin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Maple Ridge Trail, Mount Mansfield
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2015

A long mountainside with grey ledges is speckled red, orange and yellow, with paler colour on the slope below. — Smugglers' Notch mountainside
Photograph · October 8, 2015
Photograph by Niranjan Arminius · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Smugglers' Notch, Vermont
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Grey cliffs on both sides of the notch rise over slopes of red, orange and russet, with one bright red crown in front. — Smugglers' Notch from the south
Photograph · October 8, 2015
Photograph by Niranjan Arminius · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
Smugglers' Notch, from the south
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2012

Below the notch's grey cliffs the slope has gone yellow and orange in patches, with one tree in full orange at the right. — Smugglers' Notch cliffs above turning slopes
Photograph · September 24, 2012
Photograph by Michelle Maria · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 3.0 ↗
Smugglers' Notch, Vermont
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2006

Grey cliffs rise above a slope of trees still fully green, with only a few yellow leaves at the right. — Smugglers' Notch cliffs and green slopes
Photograph · September 10, 2006
Photograph by Eunice · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
Smugglers' Notch State Park
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Past goldenrod and a few shrubs turning red, the road winds below a pond and green wooded slopes into hazy ridges. — Appalachian Gap road
Photograph · September 9, 2006
Photograph by James St. John · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Appalachian Gap, Vermont Route 17
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About these views

Only Shelburne Farms on October 1, 2025 so far; nothing from this season and nothing from Mount Philo itself.