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Somerset town area

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 Somerset town area and the country around it, anywhere within 25 miles of Somerset town area, newest first. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

Photographs by date

A photograph taken near Wilmington & the Deerfield Valley on Oct 12, 2026. — Autumn Across the Vermont Hills
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by PaulWMiller · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Wilmington & the Deerfield Valley
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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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Through yellowing branches and red sumac, the river and a green hill just touched with colour. — West River from the Brattleboro trail
Photograph · September 29, 2026
Photograph by Putneypics · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
West River Trail, Brattleboro, 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 late November in earlier years, these show how the season runs here.

2025

Young white oaks hold their brown leaves under a bare shagbark hickory and other leafless trees. — Brattleboro young oaks in late November
Photograph · November 22, 2025
Photograph by Putneypics · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
West River Trail, Brattleboro, Vermont
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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 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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The road curves down past a bank of green trees with the first red and yellow patches, toward Greylock's blue ridge. — Route 2 down into Williamstown
Photograph · September 9, 2025
Photograph by Famartin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Route 2 below Petersburgh Pass, Williamstown
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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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Red, orange and gold trees dot green fields and farm buildings, with a ridge of wind turbines turned rust behind. — Williamstown farm fields and wind ridge
Photograph · October 5, 2024
Photograph by - Ozymandias - · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Williamstown, Massachusetts
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A road runs past roadside maples in orange and yellow toward a ridge already patched rust, red and green. — Williamstown road below a turning ridge
Photograph · October 5, 2024
Photograph by - Ozymandias - · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Williamstown, Massachusetts, below the Greylock range
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Green maple crowns in the foreground look out over North Adams to the Greylock range, all still summer green. — Mohawk Trail overlook in late-summer green
Photograph · September 1, 2024
Photograph by Eridony · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mohawk Trail overlook above North Adams, Massachusetts
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2022

From the ridge, a valley of unbroken green woods and a small town runs to the long Greylock range under summer cloud. — North Adams from Top o' the World
Photograph · September 3, 2022
Photograph by Pi.1415926535 · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Top o' the World, Hoosac Range, over North Adams
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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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2014

Most trees are bare now, white birch trunks among them, with a few last orange and yellow crowns below a hill lost in fog. — Williamstown meadow in fog, mostly bare
Photograph · October 23, 2014
Photograph by ~jar{} from Berkeley, California · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Woodcock Road, Williamstown
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2009

Mist hangs in a steep valley of bronze, yellow and green, with red sumac in the foreground. — Mohawk Trail valley in mist
Photograph · October 18, 2009
Photograph by -jkb- · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗
Mohawk Trail, east end
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About these views

The captioned photographs identify towns, not exact viewpoints.