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Fall Colors

Visit one of America's Best Fall Foliage Forests!

Mono County and the surrounding Eastern Sierra provide the best show of glowing golden-orange-crimson fall colors in the western United States. Our natural landscape in the Eastern Sierra, where rugged granite canyons are carved by rushing streams and framed by an azure sky, offers a spellbinding contrast of colors during autumn. Travel to Rock Creek, Mammoth Lakes, the June Lake Loop, Yosemite (Tioga Pass), Lundy Canyon, Bridgeport, Sonora Pass and beyond to see fall colors at their finest.

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CURRENT FALL COLOR REPORT

Updated November 1, 2016 (Pictures below report)

The 2016 Mono County Fall Color season is officially past peak! Plan your 2017 trip for late September through the month of October. 

Guide:
0-10% - Just Starting
10-50% - Patchy
50-75% - Near Peak (Go Now!)
75-100% - Peaking (GO NOW!)
Past Peak - (You Missed It)

WALKER / COLEVILLE / TOPAZ

Monitor Pass - Past Peak 
Lobdell Lake - Past Peak
Walker Canyon - Past Peak
Towns of Walker & Coleville - Past Peak

BRIDGEPORT / VIRGINIA LAKES

Twin Lakes -  Past Peak
Virginia Lakes - Past Peak 
Conway Summit - Past Peak
Summers Meadow - Past Peak

LEE VINING 

Tioga Pass & Lee Vining Canyon - Past Peak
Lundy Lake & Canyon - Past Peak

BENTON & 120 EAST 

Sagehen Meadow - Past Peak 

JUNE LAKE LOOP

June Lake Loop/Hwy 158 - Past Peak
Parker Lake - Past Peak
Little Walker Lake - Past Peak

MAMMOTH LAKES

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Lakes Basin - Past Peak
Mammoth Creek Road - Past Peak

Convict Lake

Convict Lake & Canyon - Past Peak

CROWLEY LAKE/McGEE CREEK  

McGee Creek Canyon - Past Peak
Around Crowley community - Past Peak  

ROCK CREEK CANYON

Around Rock Creek Lake -  Past peak.
Along the road -  Past Peak

2016 Fall Colors

Current pictures from the 2016 Fall Color Season

  • US 395 in topaz fall colors
  • Topaz Lake Fall Colors
  • Fall Colors in Walker
  • Fall Colors in Coleville on US 395
  • Conway Summit snow and Fall Colors
  • Lundy Lake Fall Colors
  • Twin Lakes Bridgeport Fall Colors 10/18/16
  • Carson Peak Fall Colors
  • Summers Meadow with snow
  • Conway Summit Fall Color
  • Conway Summit Fall Color Rainbow
  • Horse Creek Trail from Twin Lakes, Bridgeport on October 10, 2016 Fall Colors
  • Silver Lake Sun Burst
  • June Lake Loop October 10, 2016 Fall Colors
  • Little Walker Lake 10/10/16 Fall Colors
  • Twin Lakes Bridgeport 10/9/16 Fall Colors
  • Lobdell Lake Fall Colors
  • Lobdell Lake Road Fall Colors
  • Little Walker River Road
  • Lundy Fall Fall Color
  • Little Walker River Road
  • Rock Creek road fall colors
  • rodriguez flat
  • Summers Meadow Road Fall Colors
  • Convict Lake october 4
  • Lobdell Lake Fall Colors
  • Lobdell lake road fall colors
  • Dunderberg Meadows Road Fall Colors
  • Dunderberg Meadow Road Fall Colors
  • Virginia Lakes Road Fall Colors
  • Green Creek Fall Colors
  • Rock Creek Road Fall Colors
  • Rock Creek Lake Fall Color
  • Rock Creek Lake Fall Colors
  • Sonora Pass Fall Colors
  • Lundy Canyon Fall Colors
  • Sage Hen Meadows Road Fall Colors
  • Sage Hen Summit 2 Fall Colors
  • Sage Hen Summit Fall Colors
  • Sage Hen Summit Fall Colors
  • Conway Summit Fall Colors
  • Virginia lakes Road Fall Colors
  • Virginia Lakes Road Fall Colors
  • Dunderberg Meadow Road Fall Colors
  • Aurora Canyon Fall Colors
  • Hilton Creek Trail on September 11, 2016 - Photo by Greg Newbry
  • Hilton Creek Trail September 2016
  • Hilton Creek Trail on September 11, 2016 - Photo by Greg Newbry
  • Hilton Creek Trail on September 11, 2016 - Photo by Greg Newbry
  • Davis Lake Fall Colors
  • Conway Summit 9.11.16
  • Roosevelt Lake 9.11.16
  • Virginia Lakes 2 on 9.11.16
  • Virginia Lakes 1 on 9.11.16
  • Virginia Lakes on 9.11.16
  • Virginia Lakes 3 on 9.11.16
  • Parker Lake 9.10.16
  • Green Creek Fall Colors
  • Sagehen Summit
  • Rock Creek Fall Colors 8.31.16
  • Rock Creek Fall Colors 8.31.16
  • Rock Creek Fall Colors 2016

Fall Colors

Photos from the 2015 Fall Season

  • Virginia Lakes Road
  • Fall Colors in Winter
  • Fall Colors in Winter
  • Fall Colors in Winter
  • Fall Colors in Winter
  • Fishing in Fall
  • Fall on the Lake
  • Fall on the Creek
  • June Lake Loop
  • Rainbow in Fall
  • Rock Creek Lake Reflections
  • Sage Hen Summit Rd.
  • Silver Lake Leafy Shore

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