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well, this makes me feel better! no color anywhere yet. hardly feel ready for summer

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You get south of Brainerd toward Mille lacs you get some of the ash trees turning yellow and a few maples just getting a hint of color change. Some of that is it because it was so dry here.
Last year colors were a little late. Will see what happens the next few weeks. It seems like you get a rain in the fall and over night you have color everywhere.
Its coming soon.

Just got out today entry 14 north Indian Sioux. Trees just starting to get a hint of turning. Suspect in 2 to 3 weeks it will be great.

crossing our fingers and hoping it speeds up fast and there is some color next weekend. We are going up 2 weeks earlier than normal partly because we are always there after peak.

quote ducks: "crossing our fingers and hoping it speeds up fast and there is some color next weekend. We are going up 2 weeks earlier than normal partly because we are always there after peak."

I think you are going to be ahead of the peak.

Hope the lack of rain won't have a negative impact on this years color!

Was on the Vera to Ensign portage as far back as August 23rd and we all remarked at the end that there was a hint of fall showing on that portage (but that portage alone). Trees were just starting to turn and there were a good number of fallen leaves already on the ground. Why just there and why that early?

Bear Head Lake State Park by Ely
Leaf color:

0-10% turned.

quote PINETREE: "Bear Head Lake State Park by Ely
Leaf color:


0-10% turned.
"

We won't hit peak but I'm still hoping for some good color. Especially the reds and oranges that are always gone when we've gone the 1st weekend in Oct. The state park report was updated 5 days ago and we still have 5 days until we get up there. One of my favorite movie quotes is from Dumb and Dumber when she tells him his odds are 1 in a million and he says "so you're saying there's a chance" :)

My American Linden (Basswood)is turning, but it's always early.

I'm headed in 9/29-10/6. I thought I was going to be late, but it looks like I'm looking pretty good!

quote landoftheskytintedwater: "I'm headed in 9/29-10/6. I thought I was going to be late, but it looks like I'm looking pretty good!"

I think you will be perfect for leave colors.
Sometimes after its been cooled down for awhile you get lucky and the water is dead calm,but cold. Maybe hot,maybe snow,whi knows.

quote PINETREE: "Bear Head Lake State Park by Ely
Leaf color:


0-10% turned.
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yep just was on Birch lake all weekend..nothing

Bear Head updated today and still 0-10%.. boooo hisssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the later dates for fall color that I can remember.
WhiteWolf- got any data?

quote gutmon: "One of the later dates for fall color that I can remember.
WhiteWolf- got any data?"

I agree. I just think it has something to do with most everything being about a month behind from the cold spring which which was the 3rd coldest out of 119 recorded springs for MN.

I did find this for avg MN peak color.

Just got back from the Gunflint area and than Isabella lake country.
It seemed in the last three days you could just watch the colors starting to show up,especially on the Maples. Some tree had very good color.
Now that said is just starting and were about 10% turned,but I think things are speeding up. I still think about the end of Sept. it will peak.
It poured now today super hard at Isabella today-probably close to 2 inches of rain maybe in a small area. But sometimes after a rain it seems like it just washes the green away-now I have no idea if rain can hasten the change of colors.

Got back from the Boundary Waters on Sept 20th and the leaves were just starting to change to yellow with some reds also. I would bet this next week they will be really colorful.

Just got back from the Sawbill area. Same story there. The colors are just starting to turn.

It seems to me up north even the last few years it has been around Oct. 1 when you were getting into that peak week period.

Maples are starting to get some nice colors in the Walker-Longville area. Looks like the peak still a week out in that area. Mille lacs area still a lot of green with some maples turned.

gunflint trail just a couple hundred yards before the Seagull Guard Station and Larch Creek entry point. this area burned in the cavity lake and ham lake fires so the standing blackened trees make a beautiful contrast to the fall colors.

Came out the 26th from a Knife, Kekekabic, Ima, Ensign loop. Maples turning and many in good color, birch just beginning. The drive out 169 was brilliant with more color than any other location.

quote Mocha: "


gunflint trail just a couple hundred yards before the Seagull Guard Station and Larch Creek entry point. this area burned in the cavity lake and ham lake fires so the standing blackened trees make a beautiful contrast to the fall colors."

Its like the two best weeks of the year our before us now. Enjoy.
Nice to see a photo gallery of color. Thanks.

Caribou trail and Honeymoon trail were awesome today. Right at peak.

The shift had just started when we headed in to the lakes. At first we just saw a few maples just turning on the tips. By the end of the trip the birch had just burst into a wave of gold.

Feeling really lucky this year that I will be able to enjoy Fall colors twice. Once up there and once at home.

quote Mocha: "


gunflint trail just a couple hundred yards before the Seagull Guard Station and Larch Creek entry point. this area burned in the cavity lake and ham lake fires so the standing blackened trees make a beautiful contrast to the fall colors."

Wowza-yowza! Heaven on Earth.

The trees were beginning to change in the Tofte, MN area last week.

It is getting there very slowly this year.
Down in the Mille lacs area the Maples are turning,but many of the other trees still dark green.
Got up to Longville,and maples looking more color,but there also underbrush and other tree still green. We had all this rain now and it suppose to be cooler tonight. I think the changes will start in speeding up.

How is the Ely-Grand Marais doing with the paint brush?

I drove from Ely today and spent the afternoon at Hawk Ridge in Duluth then drove back through Beaver Bay. The colors were peak a mile or two inland from Lake Superior around the Sawtooth Mountains Cemetery near Beaver Bay. Lots of bright red and orange. Duluth looked good from Hawk Ridge. Ely may be at peak now but many maples and birch have already shed. Looking for some sunshine to light whats left this week. All these areas are nice and I really like the way the woods smell when it's damp. It is nice to see the migrating birds too.

quote Zulu: "I drove from Ely today and spent the afternoon at Hawk Ridge in Duluth then drove back through Beaver Bay. The colors were peak a mile or two inland from Lake Superior around the Sawtooth Mountains Cemetery near Beaver Bay. Lots of bright red and orange. Duluth looked good from Hawk Ridge. Ely may be at peak now but many maples and birch have already shed. Looking for some sunshine to light whats left this week. All these areas are nice and I really like the way the woods smell when it's damp. It is nice to see the migrating birds too. "

That fall smell in the woods in the fall is awesome as you mentioned. We should bottle it.

The wind was taking its toll this past weekend, but there’s still color in the Superior National Forest.

quote Mocha: "


gunflint trail just a couple hundred yards before the Seagull Guard Station and Larch Creek entry point. this area burned in the cavity lake and ham lake fires so the standing blackened trees make a beautiful contrast to the fall colors."

gorgeous!

wow!

quote boonie: "

quote Mocha: "



gunflint trail just a couple hundred yards before the Seagull Guard Station and Larch Creek entry point. this area burned in the cavity lake and ham lake fires so the standing blackened trees make a beautiful contrast to the fall colors."

gorgeous!"

Last Saturday (Oct 5) at Sunset
and Sunday on the SHT N. of Grand Marais

A few pictures from last Wednesday and Thursday north of Two Harbors.

North of Two Harbors on highway Two is pretty in the fall.

Was it easy to recognize the Little Langley River area? I waited for the logging truck to go by, but that would have made a nice picture too with the truck coming out of that dip.

quote balsam: "Last Saturday (Oct 5) at Sunset
and Sunday on the SHT N. of Grand Marais
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Now that first pic shows some really nice fall colors.

I think were peaking in many areas of the state now,problem is it is suppose to be super windy like today. They will come down fast.

Drove from Brainerd to Grand Rapids yesterday- PEAK COLOR!
This would be the weekend to get out in central/north central MN for color.

quote gutmon: "Drove from Brainerd to Grand Rapids yesterday- PEAK COLOR!
This would be the weekend to get out in central/north central MN for color."

The Walker-Grand Rapids-Mille lacss area with all its maples is a great fall drive.

A few pics from this week around the Echo Trail

Ima Lake~ 10/9/13

quote mooseplums: "Ima Lake~ 10/9/13 "

Wow. Just if we could freeze everything in time at this moment.

quote mooseplums: "Ima Lake~ 10/9/13 "

Absolutely Gorgeous !