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Okemo, Ludlow & Chester

Autumn Guide ↗ put the peak at Woodstock Village around October 7. That day has gone, so the newest pictures below are the truer guide to what is left on the trees.

Photographs of Okemo, Ludlow & Chester and the country around it, anywhere within 25 miles of Okemo, Ludlow & Chester, 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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An old red maple in mixed woods, its leaves going orange and yellow among others still green. — Red maple turning in Woodstock woods
Photograph · October 2, 2026
Photograph by danly · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Woodstock, Vermont
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Looking down a rock gorge whose walls are mostly green hemlock and hardwood, with a few maples gone red and orange. — Quechee Gorge with first red maples
Photograph · September 28, 2026
Photograph by psu13 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
A river gorge in Hartford, Vermont, almost certainly Quechee Gorge
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A stand of maples, one bright red and others yellow and still green, against a pale sky. — Killington maples in red and yellow
Photograph · September 28, 2026
Photograph by psu13 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Killington, Vermont
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Tall slender trunks in a mixed wood where the lower canopy is turning yellow while the rest stays green. — Woodstock woods beginning to yellow
Photograph · September 27, 2026
Photograph by psu13 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Woodstock, Vermont (woods)
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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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A steel truss bridge sits below a wooded hillside still mostly green, with the first few crowns turning. — Bridgewater Corners hillside above the iron bridge
Photograph · September 18, 2026
Photograph by devtmefl · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Bridgewater Corners, Vermont
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The red covered bridge spans the Ottauquechee below its dam, framed by maples still in full summer green. — Taftsville covered bridge in late-summer green
Photograph · August 29, 2026
Photograph by Gary/-King · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Taftsville Covered Bridge, Woodstock, 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 maple half gold and half green shades a lawn of fallen leaves, with houses and a red tree beyond. — Woodstock maple over a leafy lawn
Photograph · October 8, 2025
Photograph by rsshames · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Woodstock, 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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2024

Bare white birches and a few spruce line the windy pond, with brown leafless hills beyond. — Kent Pond with bare birches
Photograph · November 1, 2024
Photograph by Marv and Sue Elliott · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Kent Pond, Killington, Vermont
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Orange and red maples and birch line the pond's point and mirror in grey water under low cloud. — Kent Pond in mist and full colour
Photograph · October 14, 2024
Photograph by Marv and Sue Elliott · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Kent Pond, Killington, Vermont
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2023

Snow falls on bare hardwoods and spruce along the pond shore and the hills behind. — Kent Pond in first snow
Photograph · November 1, 2023
Photograph by Marv and Sue Elliott · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Kent Pond, Killington, Vermont
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A gravel lane curves between barns and an orange maple, with leaves on the ground and russet hills behind. — Bridgewater farm road in late colour
Photograph · October 26, 2023
Photograph by tjohn611 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Bridgewater, Vermont (a farm road)
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The red bridge and its reflection sit below a bank of yellow and half-bare trees on a grey day. — Taftsville covered bridge mirrored in the river
Photograph · October 17, 2023
Photograph by zdanneels · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Taftsville Covered Bridge, Woodstock, Vermont
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Cattails before the pond and a shore of red, orange and yellow hardwoods below a mountain going bare at the top. — Kent Pond below Killington's slopes
Photograph · October 13, 2023
Photograph by tjohn611 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Kent Pond, Killington, Vermont
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A balloon floats over the gorge, whose walls are green hemlock with patches of yellow and orange, and a turning hill beyond. — Quechee Gorge with a hot-air balloon
Photograph · October 10, 2023
Photograph by reader630 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Quechee Gorge, Quechee, Vermont
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An old barn on a stone foundation stands between big maples, some bare and some holding yellow and red leaves. — Bridgewater barn between old maples
Photograph · October 6, 2023
Photograph by tjohn611 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Bridgewater, Vermont
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A drone view down Route 12 between hillsides of red, orange and yellow hardwoods mixed with dark pines. — Barnard Route 12 from above
Photograph · October 5, 2023
Photograph by 72grande · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Route 12, Barnard, Vermont
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The river runs white down the gorge between walls of rust, orange and green trees in evening light. — Quechee Gorge at dusk
Photograph · October 4, 2023
Photograph by Howard L. · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Quechee Gorge, Quechee, 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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2019

From a rocky lookout framed by rust-orange leaves, red shrubs fall away to the village and wooded hills in late colour. — Woodstock valley from the park lookout
Photograph · October 19, 2019
Photograph by Jollieduck · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock
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Orange crowns arch over a sidewalk deep in fallen leaves, beside a white fence with a pumpkin on every post and a clock tower beyond. — Woodstock village sidewalk
Photograph · October 15, 2019
Photograph by Anthony Quintano from Mount Laurel, United States · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Woodstock, Vermont
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The river threads a narrow gorge between dark evergreens on one side and orange and yellow crowns on the other, with red-flecked hills behind. — Quechee Gorge between coloured walls
Photograph · October 11, 2019
Photograph by cricketsblog · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Quechee Gorge
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2013

On a misty day the river bends past a bank of trees going yellow and bronze, under a soft green hill. — Ottauquechee River at Taftsville
Photograph · September 21, 2013
Photograph by Dougtone · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
Taftsville, Vermont
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2012

The green steel bridge is seen through tall evergreens, with yellow leaves below it and a few gold crowns on the far rim. — Quechee Gorge Bridge through the evergreens
Photograph · October 14, 2012
Photograph by KimonBerlin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
Quechee Gorge Bridge
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From the gorge floor the steel bridge spans a gap between slopes of green trees, a few just yellowing. — Quechee Gorge Bridge from the river
Photograph · September 8, 2012
Photograph by Eyeheartbrain · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗
Quechee Gorge Bridge
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2011

A grey barn sits in a steep green pasture under a big tree just yellowing, with orange and russet woods on the hill behind. — Woodstock hill pasture
Photograph · October 3, 2011
Photograph by guyvail · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗
Woodstock, Vermont
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2010

Water spills over a dam below a pond ringed by tall evergreens and leafy trees, one of them starting to yellow. — Quechee State Park dam
Photograph · September 15, 2010
Photograph by Evelyn Proimos · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
The dam, Quechee State Park
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About these views

The Okemo summit on October 3 this year, and Weston and Chester from September 27 to November 7, 2025; nothing yet from Grafton village or Jamaica State Park.