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East Montpelier countryside

Autumn Guide ↗ put the peak at Camel's Hump, Monroe Trail, around October 4. That day has gone, so the newest pictures below are the truer guide to what is left on the trees.

Photographs of East Montpelier countryside and the country around it, newest first. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

Photographs by date

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 black cherry turned orange and red at a meadow's edge, with green trees and open fields beyond. — Black cherry gone orange, Danville
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by Elinor Osborn · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Danville, 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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A colorful wooded slope rises toward cliffs and low cloud, with clearer near crowns below. — Mountain view at Smugglers’ Notch
Photograph · October 2, 2026
Photograph by Joe Stratton · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch near Cambridge, Vermont
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A wet bend runs beneath yellow and orange trees, with small falls against the dark rock face. — Autumn road through Smugglers’ Notch
Photograph · October 2, 2026
Photograph by Joe Stratton · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Cambridge, Vermont
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The white steeple rises in front of a hillside of red, orange and yellow maples with a few houses among them. — Stowe church steeple against the hillside
Photograph · September 30, 2026
Photograph by joes_shots · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Stowe Community Church, Stowe, Vermont
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A slate-roofed lodge sits above a bank of red, orange and green maples, about half turned. — Smugglers’ Notch lodge among maples
Photograph · September 27, 2026
Photograph by ddouangc · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch, Vermont
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Dead snags stand in a still pond that mirrors a slope of red and orange maples mixed with dark spruce. — Smugglers’ Notch beaver pond
Photograph · September 27, 2026
Photograph by ddouangc · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch, Vermont
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Maples turning yellow and orange stand over a stony bed, with a slope of yellow and green behind. — Smugglers’ Notch maples by a stony streambed
Photograph · September 27, 2026
Photograph by ddouangc · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch, Vermont
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A red barn on a mown hill, an orange maple at right and a valley of red, orange and green below the mountains. — Nevermore Farm barn above turning hills
Photograph · September 26, 2026
Photograph by R. Braley · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Nevermore Farm, Montpelier, Vermont
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A grey barn by a small pond, with maples in orange and gold and others still green behind. — Montpelier pond and weathered barn
Photograph · September 26, 2026
Photograph by R. Braley · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Montpelier, Vermont (a pond and barn)
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Yellow, orange and red trees rise behind a red barn beneath a clouded sky. — East Montpelier barn and hillside
Photograph · September 26, 2026
Photograph by R. Braley · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved ↗
East Montpelier area, Vermont
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Earlier autumns

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

2025

Red and rust oaks and a few yellow trees ring a hilltop cemetery, with snow on distant peaks. — Danville hilltop cemetery facing snowy peaks
Photograph · October 28, 2025
Photograph by Daniel Hischer · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Danville Green Cemetery, Danville, Vermont
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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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Most trees around the church are bare, with a few yellow larches and rust oaks left on the hill behind. — Stowe church in late October
Photograph · October 27, 2025
Photograph by Daniel Hischer · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Stowe Community Church, Stowe, Vermont
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The white church stands among half-turned trees, some bare, with a hillside of rust and gold and a dark ridge behind. — Stowe church below the Worcester Range
Photograph · October 12, 2025
Photograph by MEA Images · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Stowe Community Church, Stowe, Vermont
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From a spruce-topped lookout, hillsides of rust, red and orange fall to the pond, with Camel's Hump on the skyline. — Kettle Pond from above, rust and red
Photograph · October 12, 2025
Photograph by TranquilWhims · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Kettle Pond, Groton State Forest, Vermont
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A still marsh mirrors the sky between bronze shrubs, gold larches and dark spruce, with a rounded peak behind. — Groton marsh reflecting late colour
Photograph · October 12, 2025
Photograph by TranquilWhims · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Groton, Vermont (a beaver marsh)
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A small grey barn on a dry hillside, framed by a maple still holding yellow leaves while trees behind are going bare. — Peacham small barn under a thinning maple
Photograph · October 10, 2025
Photograph by R. Braley · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Peacham, 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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A leaf-covered woods road between tall trunks under a canopy turning gold and bronze. — East Montpelier woods road in gold
Photograph · September 30, 2025
Photograph by John Bollard · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
East Montpelier, Vermont (a woods road)
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The white church and village houses among maples of red, orange and gold, with fields and rolling hills turning behind. — Peacham village from the air
Photograph · September 29, 2025
Photograph by Ascended Dreamer · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Peacham, Vermont, from the east
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A road runs past a stream, farms and trees just starting to yellow, with turning hills behind. — Peacham valley road and farms from above
Photograph · September 27, 2025
Photograph by harrisoncreative · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Peacham, Vermont
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A drone view of the village crossroads with one orange maple and yellow crowns in the green, hills turning behind. — Peacham village crossroads from above
Photograph · September 27, 2025
Photograph by harrisoncreative · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Peacham, Vermont
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2023

A long red barn on a dirt road under a maple dropping yellow leaves, with gold trees at left. — Waitsfield Common Road barn and maple
Photograph · October 13, 2023
Photograph by tjohn611 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Common Road, Waitsfield, Vermont
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A big red barn with pumpkins under a dark sky, with half-bare rust and orange trees at left. — Mountain Valley Farm barn under storm cloud
Photograph · October 11, 2023
Photograph by DaveWilsonPhotography · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mountain Valley Farm, near Irasville, Waitsfield, Vermont
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An old sugar shack's rusty roofs below beech and maple branches in yellow and orange. — Waitsfield sugar shack under yellow beech
Photograph · October 11, 2023
Photograph by DaveWilsonPhotography · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Near Waitsfield, Vermont (a sugar shack)
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A rocky brook runs between birches mostly bare, yellow beech and dark spruce on the banks. — Warren brook under yellow and bare birches
Photograph · October 10, 2023
Photograph by rhayward46 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Warren, Vermont (a mountain brook)
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A steel truss bridge on a leaf-strewn road through birch, hemlock and maple, with some crowns yellow and some bare. — Waitsfield back-road bridge in mixed colour
Photograph · October 9, 2023
Photograph by rhayward46 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Waitsfield, Vermont (a steel bridge on a back road)
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A drone view of a whole hillside of red, orange and yellow hardwoods with a few dark spruce. — Moretown hillside in full colour from above
Photograph · October 3, 2023
Photograph by 72grande · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Moretown Mountain Road, Moretown, Vermont
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2022

An old timber mill stands over the river and its dam, with leafless saplings in front and bare trees on the far bank. — Moscow sawmill on the Little River
Photograph · November 10, 2022
Photograph by Stowe Electric · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Seaver Sawmill, Moscow, Stowe
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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

Compare the photographs around this area and their dates; their captions identify the setting and any location uncertainty.