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Ferncliff Forest & South Pond

Autumn Guide ↗ put the peak at Kaaterskill Falls around October 12. That day has gone, so the newest pictures below are the truer guide to what is left on the trees.

Photographs of Ferncliff Forest & South Pond and the country around it, anywhere within 25 miles of Ferncliff Forest & South Pond, newest first. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

Photographs by date

A photograph taken near Minnewaska State Park Preserve on Oct 12, 2026. — Awosting Falls is 🍁 🍂
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by Photos12401 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Minnewaska State Park Preserve
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A photograph taken near Catskills & Hudson Valley on Oct 12, 2026. — Sunset Rock
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by MecCanon · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Catskills & Hudson Valley
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Two honey locusts gone bright gold over a lawn and a curving path, with green woods behind. — Gold honey locusts by a pond path
Photograph · October 4, 2026
Photograph by drm · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
High Falls, New York
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A stand of tall black walnuts whose crowns are turning yellow-green against a blue sky. — Black walnuts yellowing, Dutchess County
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by nidmer · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Dutchess County, New York
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Small green and yellow-green trees surround the visitor center; this is landscaped park-entry scenery. — Minnewaska visitor-center trees
Photograph · September 29, 2026
Photograph by New York State Parks & Historic Sites · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved ↗
Lake Minnewaska visitor center, New York
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Both drops of the falls pour over red rock between leafy trees still mostly green, a few branches and one small tree turning yellow. — Kaaterskill Falls in late-September rain
Photograph · September 28, 2026
Photograph by Shahid Durrani · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Kaaterskill Falls, New York
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A country road runs toward the white cliffs of the ridge, with roadside trees green and a few crowns just yellowing in low sun. — Millbrook cliffs above a morning road
Photograph · September 15, 2026
Photograph by Paul Comstock · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Millbrook Mountain from a road near New Paltz, New York
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Tall oaks and beeches stand in full green summer leaf over a forest floor of last year's leaves. — Comeau woods, Woodstock, in late August
Photograph · August 31, 2026
Photograph by Paul Comstock · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Comeau Property, Woodstock, New York
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Seen from the pool below, the two tiers of the falls drop past rock ledges under full green summer trees and a blue sky. — Kaaterskill Falls in summer
Photograph · August 13, 2026
Photograph by Nicole-Rae-Photography · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Kaaterskill Falls, New York
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Birches and other hardwoods arch over a rocky trail in full summer leaf, all green. — Hunter Mountain trail in August green
Photograph · August 8, 2026
Photograph by Danielle_M_Bedics · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Hunter Mountain, Spruceton Trail, New York
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Earlier autumns

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

2025

A narrow road runs between tall trees gone gold and yellow with a few red, under a clear blue sky. — Quiet Cove park road in late October
Photograph · October 28, 2025
Photograph by Mad Hare Imagery · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Quiet Cove Riverfront County Park, Poughkeepsie, New York
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The upper fall drops beside a clove whose slopes are gold, orange and rust among dark hemlocks, with bare trees already showing. — Kaaterskill Falls and the clove
Photograph · October 26, 2025
Photograph by Bschatz2 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Kaaterskill Falls, New York
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Golden trees reflect in a still pond, with orange sunlight on one shore and muted green and yellow in shade. — Ferncliff South Pond in October 2025
Photograph · October 21, 2025
Photograph by jeffseverson · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved ↗
South Pond, Ferncliff Forest, New York
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A hiker walks a mossy trail under tall birches and maples gone yellow, with hemlocks and fallen leaves around. — Mount Tremper trail in mid-October
Photograph · October 19, 2025
Photograph by Danielle_M_Bedics · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mount Tremper from Jessup Road, Phoenicia, New York
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The long hotel rises over Mohonk Lake with yellow and orange shrubs and trees on the cliff edge in front and a few turning crowns along the shore. — Mohonk Mountain House across the lake
Photograph · October 18, 2025
Photograph by Jemlnlx · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mohonk Mountain House and Mohonk Lake, New Paltz, New York
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A leaf-covered path runs through beech and birch in yellow, orange and green, fading into fog. — Burroughs Range trail in mist
Photograph · October 15, 2025
Photograph by Anton de Flon · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Burroughs Range trail near Giant Ledge, New York
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Frederic Church's house crowns a hill of green, rust and orange trees above the river, with the Rip Van Winkle Bridge on the right. — Olana above the Hudson, early October
Photograph · October 6, 2025
Photograph by Mad Hare Imagery · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Olana from the Hudson River near Catskill, New York
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The summit ridge with its radio mast is covered in green and gold oaks turning rust, with a reservoir and hazy ridges beyond. — Overlook Mountain summit ridge
Photograph · October 5, 2025
Photograph by Miche & Jon Rousell · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Overlook Mountain fire tower, Woodstock, New York
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A leaf-strewn path runs through tall hardwoods still green, their upper leaves just yellowing in the sun. — Mawignack Preserve woods in early October
Photograph · October 4, 2025
Photograph by Mad Hare Imagery · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mawignack Preserve, Catskill, New York
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Fallen maple leaves float in the low brook beside village houses, under trees turning yellow against a blue sky. — Tannery Brook in Woodstock village
Photograph · October 4, 2025
Photograph by Miche & Jon Rousell · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Tannery Brook, Woodstock, New York
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The valley below Giant Ledge is a mix of orange, red, gold and green crowns, with pink light on the far ridges. — Giant Ledge view at dusk
Photograph · October 3, 2025
Photograph by noplanetb · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Giant Ledge, Slide Mountain Wilderness, New York
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From high on Slide, a long ridge below glows red and orange among green, with layer after layer of blue Catskill peaks behind. — Catskill ridges from Slide Mountain
Photograph · October 3, 2025
Photograph by Miche & Jon Rousell · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Slide Mountain, Catskills, New York
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A telephoto slice of hillside packed with red maples, yellow birches and a few trees still green. — West Kill Mountain slope turning
Photograph · September 26, 2025
Photograph by Anton de Flon · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
West Kill Mountain, Spruceton, Greene County, New York
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The river stretches south between wooded bluffs still in full green summer leaf, with the riverside park and rail line below. — Hudson from the Walkway, early September
Photograph · September 2, 2025
Photograph by imartin92 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York
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2024

From the gorge rail, the hardwood slopes are bare grey among green hemlock and pine, looking out to the Hudson Valley. — Bash Bish gorge in bare November
Photograph · November 16, 2024
Photograph by Stephen St-Denis · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Bash Bish Falls State Park, Mount Washington, Massachusetts
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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.