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Vermont

Groton State Forest

Autumn Guide ↗ put the peak at Bath Covered Bridge around October 5. That day has gone, so the newest pictures below are the truer guide to what is left on the trees.

Photographs of Groton State Forest and the country around it, newest first. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

Photographs by date

A pond reflects yellow, orange and red trees among dark conifers. Low fog softens the hill above a clear, colorful shoreline. — Pond and autumn woods at Groton
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by willsdad48 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Groton State Forest area, Vermont
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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 young maple almost wholly pale yellow, a few leaves reddening, against dark spruce. — Young maple gone pale yellow, Kirby
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by Tracy Sherbrook · iNaturalist ↗ · CC0 1.0 ↗
Kirby, 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 weathered barn with a cupola sits below a hillside of red, orange and yellow maples still mixed with green. — Dog Mountain barn before a turning hillside
Photograph · September 29, 2026
Photograph by jlevinger · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ↗
Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, 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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A boulder in the pond and a long wooded ridge, mostly green with the first rust and orange showing. — Ricker Pond with the first colour
Photograph · September 18, 2026
Photograph by devtmefl · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Ricker Pond State Park, Groton, Vermont
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A grey barn in a fenced pasture, with full green hardwoods and a wooded ridge behind. — Waterbury barn below a green ridge
Photograph · August 16, 2026
Photograph by R. Braley · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Waterbury, Vermont (a farm)
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Earlier autumns

Taken between late September and late October 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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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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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 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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About these views

The photograph names the forest but not its pond; nearby ridges and sheltered shorelines may differ.