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Mohonk Preserve & Coxing Kill

Autumn Guide ↗ put the peak at Minnewaska State Park Preserve around October 15. That day has gone, so the newest pictures below are the truer guide to what is left on the trees.

Photographs of Mohonk Preserve & Coxing Kill and the country around it, newest first. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

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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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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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Tall street trees over a red roof, one crown gone orange at the very top while the rest is still green. — Tall trees tipped orange, Cold Spring
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by goldbuttemel5 · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Cold Spring, New York
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Broadleaf branches above a small waterfall retain green leaves with some yellow and orange; fallen leaves cover nearby rocks. — Coxing Kill woodland waterfall
Photograph · October 2, 2026
Photograph by jeffseverson · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved ↗
Coxing Kill, Mohonk Preserve, 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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The forested escarpment runs to a cliff-faced knob over the valley, all still green in September, with grey rocks in front. — Shawangunk ridge from Mohonk Preserve
Photograph · September 21, 2026
Photograph by adam.paiva · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mohonk Preserve, 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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Earlier autumns

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

2025

Riders pass under the stone gatehouse while the oaks and maples around it are mostly bare, a few still orange and red. — Mohonk gatehouse in early November
Photograph · November 1, 2025
Photograph by silvershoots · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Testimonial Gateway, Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, New York
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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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Breakneck Ridge rises from the river with its slopes in orange, yellow and rust around bare grey rock, under a clear sky. — Breakneck Ridge across the Hudson
Photograph · October 27, 2025
Photograph by blazer8696 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Breakneck Ridge from Storm King Mountain, New York
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Bare grey forest fills the valleys toward cloud-capped peaks, with only scattered yellow and rust trees and a dark spruce stand by a road. — Catskill high peaks from Red Hill
Photograph · October 22, 2025
Photograph by AlanTroidlPhotography · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Red Hill fire tower, Catskills, 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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A rocky trail crosses a ridge-top carpet of huckleberry gone deep red, with stunted pitch pines and a far blue horizon. — Sam's Point huckleberry barrens in red
Photograph · October 9, 2025
Photograph by Lou Poulas · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Verkeerderkill Falls Trail, Sam's Point, Minnewaska State Park, 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 row of maples along a lane is half yellow and orange and half still green, with fallen leaves on the lawn. — Storm King maple allée turning
Photograph · October 4, 2025
Photograph by ssamsu · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, 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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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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About these views

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