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Manchester & Dorset

Autumn Guide ↗ put the peak at Mohawk Trail, Hairpin Turn, 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 Manchester & Dorset and the country around it, newest first. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

Photographs by date

A big maple almost wholly orange beside a lawn, with an orange hillside behind it and a bare tree to one side. — Orange sugar maple in Mount Holly
Photograph · October 5, 2026
Photograph by JCorven · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Mount Holly, Vermont
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Summit shrubs gone bronze and gold above slopes of orange and yellow, with rust-coloured hills to the horizon. — Okemo summit over turning hills
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by vermont251adventures · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Okemo summit, Ludlow Mountain, Ludlow, Vermont
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Yellow birch and a red maple stand out among dark summit spruce, with a hill of rust and orange beyond. — Okemo yellow birches among summit spruce
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by vermont251adventures · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Okemo summit, Ludlow Mountain, Ludlow, Vermont
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Past green aspen leaves, woods of gold and orange ring a small pond under a blue sky. — Gold woods around a Londonderry pond
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by harrietd428 · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Londonderry, Vermont
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A young white ash turned purple-red and orange in front of woods where maples are going yellow and red. — White ash gone purple, Bondville
Photograph · October 2, 2026
Photograph by harrietd428 · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Bondville, Vermont
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Green, yellow and orange-red foliage lines the river at South Londonderry. The close bank trees give a readable September view of this part of southern Vermont. — Trees along the West River
Photograph · September 22, 2026
Photograph by Gary/-King · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
West River, South Londonderry, 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

Fallen orange leaves before a stone wall, and a misty wood of bare birches with one red maple left. — Chester stone wall in November mist
Photograph · November 7, 2025
Photograph by tjohn611 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Chester, Vermont (a stone wall)
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Looking up through white birches whose last leaves are yellow and orange against a blue sky. — Dorset birches looking up in late October
Photograph · October 26, 2025
Photograph by Paul-W · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ↗
Freedley Quarry trail, Dorset, Vermont
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A trail deep in fallen leaves through tall trunks mostly bare, with a few yellow crowns and the mountain beyond. — Dorset leafy trail with last yellow
Photograph · October 26, 2025
Photograph by Paul-W · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ↗
Freedley Quarry trail, Dorset, Vermont
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A clearing ringed by aspens and birches in bright yellow with a red maple at left, many trunks already bare. — Dorset quarry trail under yellow aspens
Photograph · October 26, 2025
Photograph by Paul-W · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ↗
Freedley Quarry trail, Dorset, Vermont
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A weathered sugar house below a bare old tree, with orange and rust oaks and maples on the hill behind. — Chester sugar house under late colour
Photograph · October 24, 2025
Photograph by tjohn611 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Chester, Vermont (a sugar house)
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A red covered bridge and white church below yellow and orange maples, with a turning hillside behind. — West Arlington covered bridge and church
Photograph · October 9, 2025
Photograph by jlucierphoto · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
West Arlington covered bridge and church, Arlington, Vermont
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A tall maple in orange and red and bare white birches over a picnic table, with a turning shore behind. — Ward's Cove picnic grove in colour
Photograph · October 5, 2025
Photograph by Professor Bop · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Ward's Cove, Harriman Reservoir, Wilmington, Vermont
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Birches yellowing and shrubs gone red in the foreground, with rust and green ridges rolling away below. — Mount Equinox Monastery Overlook
Photograph · October 1, 2025
Photograph by TheGreatWiseAss · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Monastery Overlook, Mount Equinox, Manchester, Vermont
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A red building behind a bank of orange and red shrubs, gold maples and a hillside of red, orange and green, all mirrored. — Weston millpond and red barn in full colour
Photograph · September 27, 2025
Photograph by tjohn611 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
West River behind the mill, Weston, Vermont
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A stony bend of the river below a bank of tall hardwoods still in full summer green. — Battenkill at West Arlington in green
Photograph · September 17, 2025
Photograph by MIKECNY · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Battenkill River, West Arlington, Vermont
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2024

Cloud drifts over ridges covered in red, orange and gold hardwoods in full colour. — Equinox slopes through drifting cloud
Photograph · October 14, 2024
Photograph by 72Prep · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Skyline Drive, Mount Equinox, Arlington and Manchester, Vermont
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2021

Low sun lights a whole mountainside of red, orange and gold, framed by trees already in shadow. — Mount Aeolus at sunset
Photograph · October 12, 2021
Photograph by MarcBogonovich · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Mount Aeolus, Dorset, Vermont
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Orange, gold and red crowns with white trunks lean over the still pond, mirrored beside a dark shore of evergreens. — Prentiss Pond shore in colour
Photograph · October 12, 2021
Photograph by MarcBogonovich · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Prentiss Pond, Dorset, Vermont
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Still water mirrors a green wooded shore and a rounded peak, with the first touches of orange in the trees at the left. — Prentiss Pond, Dorset, still green
Photograph · September 13, 2021
Photograph by MarcBogonovich · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Prentiss Pond, Dorset, Vermont
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2020

A rocky brook runs under arching trees in yellow, orange and a little red, with fallen leaves thick on the bank. — Warm Brook at East Arlington
Photograph · October 17, 2020
Photograph by Famartin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Warm Brook, East Arlington
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2019

Dark evergreens in the foreground give way to long wooded ridges, their green just dulling toward bronze in places. — Mount Equinox, looking north-northeast
Photograph · September 21, 2019
Photograph by Famartin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Saint Bruno Scenic Viewing Area, Mount Equinox
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Shrubs turning yellow and red frame a wide farmed valley, with a few red flecks on the green slope at the left. — Mount Equinox, looking southeast over the valley
Photograph · September 21, 2019
Photograph by Famartin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Mount Equinox, about 3,350 feet
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2017

A two-lane road curves past broad roadside trees still in full green, with goldenrod in the verge. — Route 7A north
Photograph · September 10, 2017
Photograph by Famartin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Historic Vermont Route 7A
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2016

A lawn tree half bare and half gold stands over a ring of its fallen leaves, with tall evergreens fading into fog behind. — Manchester lawn tree in morning fog
Photograph · October 18, 2016
Photograph by Ethan Long · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
North Shire Lodge, Manchester, Vermont
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2010

Orange crowns and white-barked birches lean over boulders at the pond's edge, under a mountainside lost in cloud. — Equinox Pond
Photograph · October 7, 2010
Photograph by Vikki Day · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗
Equinox Pond
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About these views

The photographs show the Battenkill in September green, Mount Equinox on October 1, West Arlington's covered bridge on October 9 and Dorset's quarry trail on October 26 of 2025; none yet from this season.