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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 August 18, 2017 (Pictures below report)

The 2017 Mono County Fall Color season officially starts in late September and runs through the month of October. Stay tuned to this page for weekly updates and pictures of your favorite Fall Color destinations.

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 - 0%
Lobdell Lake - 0%
Walker Canyon - 0%
Towns of Walker & Coleville - 0%

BRIDGEPORT / VIRGINIA LAKES

Twin Lakes -  0%
Virginia Lakes - 0%
Conway Summit - 0%
Summers Meadow - 0% - NOTE: The Summers Meadow bridge sustained significant damage during the spring runoff. The road may be closed for bridge repair during. 

LEE VINING 

Tioga Pass & Lee Vining Canyon - 0%
Lundy Lake & Canyon - 0%

BENTON & 120 EAST 

Sagehen Meadow - 0%

JUNE LAKE LOOP

June Lake Loop/Hwy 158 - 0%
Parker Lake - 0%
Little Walker Lake - 0%

MAMMOTH LAKES

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Lakes Basin - 0%
Mammoth Creek Road - 0%

Convict Lake - 0%

CROWLEY LAKE/McGEE CREEK  

McGee Creek Canyon - 0%
Around Crowley community - 0%

ROCK CREEK CANYON

Around Rock Creek Lake -  0%
Along the road -  0%

2017 Fall Colors

Current pictures from the 2017 Fall Color Season

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
  • rodriguez flat
  • Summers Meadow Road Fall Colors
  • Lobdell Lake Fall Colors
  • Lobdell lake road fall colors
  • Dunderberg Meadows Road Fall Colors
  • Virginia Lakes Road Fall Colors
  • Rock Creek Road Fall Colors
  • Rock Creek Lake Fall Color
  • Rock Creek Lake Fall Colors
  • Sage Hen Meadows Road Fall Colors
  • Sage Hen Summit 2 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
  • Virginia Lakes 1 on 9.11.16
  • Virginia Lakes on 9.11.16
  • Parker Lake 9.10.16
  • 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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