![]() " Middlebury Gap, Route 25 in Addison County is always a very nice drive, as is Route 73, Brandon Gap," he offered. Sinclair offered some suggestions for scenic drives. But you can generally start finding peak colors in pockets around the state and the Green Mountain National Forest right now, and definitely within the next week, you’ll start seeing peak colors. "For the Green Mountain National Forest in south and central Vermont we generally see peak anywhere from the last week of September all the way through the second week in October. While peak varies depending on where you are, Sinclair thinks we're getting close. "The temperatures that we’ve been having recently-with warm days and cooler nights, but avoiding that early hard frost really is setting us up for the potential of some really nice colors coming into this fall,” Sinclair said. ![]() The green color fades, unmasking yellows and reds that were there all along. In the fall, shorter day length signals broad-leafed trees to get ready for winter, which includes an end to chlorophyll. ![]() Leaves are green because they contain the chemical chlorophyll, Snyder explained, which appears green to our eyes because it's reflecting the green wavelengths of light. ![]() As prime leaf-peeping approaches, John Sinclair with the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forest said weather patterns are setting us up for some beautiful color this autumn.īut first, why do the leaves change color, anyway? VPR's podcast for curious kids, But Why, posed that question to Mike Snyder, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation. ![]()
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