Fall foliage

Fall foliage in Vermont

Fall 2026 · updated daily

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Vermont’s color begins on the highest ground and moves down and south in under three weeks.

The switchbacks of the Smugglers Notch road seen from above, wound through maples and birches in full color.
Smugglers Notch, beside Mount MansfieldPhoto: Anthony Quintano · CC BY 2.0 · source
Lake Willoughby between Mount Hor and Mount Pisgah, hillsides in red, orange and gold.
Lake Willoughby, in the Northeast KingdomPhoto: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Mount Mansfield, Killington, Jay Peak and the Northeast Kingdom lead at the end of September and in the first days of October;

Londonderry, a village on Route 100, with the road running through hills of fall color.
Londonderry, on Route 100Photo: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

the mid-elevation towns along Route 100 and the Green Mountain valleys follow in the first and second weeks;

Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks from a Charlotte meadow, with red and orange maples along the shore.
Lake Champlain, from CharlottePhoto: Niranjan Arminius · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
The Connecticut River at Fairlee, with the banks lined in orange and red.
The Connecticut River, at FairleePhoto: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY 4.0 · source

the Champlain and Connecticut river valleys finish in the middle of the month.

Sugar maple supplies the reds and oranges, with beech and yellow birch for gold.

In a typical year

Bordering states

Color: Fallcast, the same map as the app. Basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors, Protomaps. Place outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.