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Stowe & Smugglers’ Notch

Autumn Guide ↗ put the peak at Smugglers' Notch, Vermont Route 108, 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 Stowe & Smugglers’ Notch and the country around it, anywhere within 25 miles of Smugglers’ Notch, newest first, with cameras around the place and beyond. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

Photographs by date

A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Maples near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by thatcherciara · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Sugar maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by ardenalexah11 · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Sugar maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by mlpdessbb1234 · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Sugar maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by Zoe Reider · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Striped maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by johannacook · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Maples near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by Elizabeth Howe · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph from Oct 12, 2026 near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain, where the observer’s point is approximate. — Sugar maple near Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
Photograph · October 12, 2026
Photograph by mollybernard · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Burlington, Shelburne & Lake Champlain
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A photograph taken near Appalachian Gap (Vermont Route 17) on Oct 11, 2026. — Camel's Hump
Photograph · October 11, 2026
Photograph by found_drama · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ↗
Appalachian Gap (Vermont Route 17)
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Inside a hardwood forest whose canopy is mixed green and yellow, with fresh fallen leaves over the floor. — Hardwood forest turning yellow, Jericho
Photograph · October 4, 2026
Photograph by Bear · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Jericho, Vermont
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A tall ash by the water, green below and turning yellow at the top, with orange shrubs at its foot. — Tall ash yellowing at the top, Colchester
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by ChristianLovesTrees · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Colchester, Vermont
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A thin waterfall drops through mist between slopes of orange and yellow trees, a few still green. — Smugglers’ Notch waterfall in mist
Photograph · October 2, 2026
Photograph by joes_shots · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch, Vermont
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A colorful wooded slope rises toward cliffs and low cloud, with clearer near crowns below. — Mountain view at Smugglers’ Notch
Photograph · October 2, 2026
Photograph by Joe Stratton · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch near Cambridge, Vermont
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Cameras

Underhill hills

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — October 13, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

The newest saved photograph is shown first. The stills below follow the camera through the season.

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The season in photographs

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — October 13, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — October 8, 2026 · 16:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — October 7, 2026 · 16:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — October 6, 2026 · 16:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — October 5, 2026 · 17:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — October 4, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — October 3, 2026 · 16:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 26, 2026 · 16:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 25, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 20, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 19, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 18, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 17, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 16, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 15, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 14, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 13, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 12, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 11, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 10, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 9, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 8, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 7, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 6, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 5, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 4, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 3, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 2, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — September 1, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — August 25, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — August 18, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — August 11, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Wooded hills rise beyond an open foreground with research instruments. — August 4, 2026 · 11:45 camera time
PhenoCam Network / Proctor Maple Research Center

Burlington and Lake Champlain panorama

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Trapp Family Lodge mountain view

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Vermont resort cameras

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Earlier autumns

From the first red tree in mid-September to bare slopes under snow in November, these show how the season runs here.

2025

Bare trees and brown brush line a stream before a red barn, with Mount Mansfield white with snow behind. — Mount Mansfield snowy above a Cambridge barn
Photograph · November 15, 2025
Photograph by R. Braley · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Pleasant Valley, Cambridge, Vermont, below Mount Mansfield
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Copper beech leaves and one bright yellow crown line the curving road while the slopes above are mostly bare. — Smugglers’ Notch road in late colour
Photograph · October 27, 2025
Photograph by Daniel Hischer · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch road, 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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Sun lights a tunnel of yellow beech and birch over the road, some crowns already thinning. — Smugglers’ Notch road in sunlit yellow
Photograph · October 9, 2025
Photograph by hansntareen · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch road, Vermont
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A car squeezes between the notch's great boulders under yellow and half-bare trees, with the cliffs above. — Smugglers’ Notch boulders and yellow birches
Photograph · October 8, 2025
Photograph by hansntareen · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch road, Vermont
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The road climbs under a canopy of yellow and pale orange trees, with a hillside of colour ahead. — Smugglers’ Notch road under yellow trees
Photograph · October 8, 2025
Photograph by hansntareen · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Smugglers’ Notch road, 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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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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2022

An old timber mill stands over the river and its dam, with leafless saplings in front and bare trees on the far bank. — Moscow sawmill on the Little River
Photograph · November 10, 2022
Photograph by Stowe Electric · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Seaver Sawmill, Moscow, Stowe
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2020

Seen from straight above, the notch road winds through a solid canopy of red, orange, yellow and a little green. — Smugglers' Notch road from above
Photograph · October 1, 2020
Photograph by Anthony Quintano from Mount Laurel, United States · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Smuggler's Notch, Vermont
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2017

A small tree has turned bright red among green evergreens on the mountain's upper western slope. — Maple Ridge Trail, Mount Mansfield
Photograph · September 11, 2017
Photograph by Famartin · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Maple Ridge Trail, Mount Mansfield
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2015

A long mountainside with grey ledges is speckled red, orange and yellow, with paler colour on the slope below. — Smugglers' Notch mountainside
Photograph · October 8, 2015
Photograph by Niranjan Arminius · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Smugglers' Notch, Vermont
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Grey cliffs on both sides of the notch rise over slopes of red, orange and russet, with one bright red crown in front. — Smugglers' Notch from the south
Photograph · October 8, 2015
Photograph by Niranjan Arminius · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
Smugglers' Notch, from the south
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2012

A hillside of red, orange and yellow crowns falls toward a valley, with blue ridges beyond under grey cloud. — Smugglers' Notch valley view
Photograph · September 25, 2012
Photograph by Michelle Maria · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 3.0 ↗
Smugglers' Notch, Vermont
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Below the notch's grey cliffs the slope has gone yellow and orange in patches, with one tree in full orange at the right. — Smugglers' Notch cliffs above turning slopes
Photograph · September 24, 2012
Photograph by Michelle Maria · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 3.0 ↗
Smugglers' Notch, Vermont
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2006

Grey cliffs rise above a slope of trees still fully green, with only a few yellow leaves at the right. — Smugglers' Notch cliffs and green slopes
Photograph · September 10, 2006
Photograph by Eunice · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
Smugglers' Notch State Park
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Past goldenrod and a few shrubs turning red, the road winds below a pond and green wooded slopes into hazy ridges. — Appalachian Gap road
Photograph · September 9, 2006
Photograph by James St. John · Wikimedia Commons ↗ · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Appalachian Gap, Vermont Route 17
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About these views

Stowe village and the Underhill camera are different places, on opposite sides of the mountain.