Colour Update

Key points include:

Highway 11 south of Temagami to North Bay is offering excellent colour. The colour has advanced to a 60% change in the Sudbury area, with yellow and gold being the dominant colours. Highway 637 to Killarney is a beautiful fall colour route. The North Bay region is approaching peak colour. Bright red and yellow dominate the region. Highways 524 and 534 are beautiful at this time.

There is also some beautiful colour from North Bay, south to Burk’s Falls along highway 11. The Mattawa area has seen the colours advance to a 90% change. In Algonquin Park, the colours are at peak. Dominant colours are red, burgundy, orange and gold.

The Parry Sound region, the colour is very close to peak, along highway 124 and along highway 69, north of the town. The colour is close to peak in the north Muskoka and northern Haliburton regions. The area is experiencing beautiful pockets of deep red, orange and yellow. A tour of the Muskoka region from the Bala (highway 169) area, to Port Carling (highway 118) and into the Bracebridge, around Lake Muskoka, is outstanding at this time. The Kawartha Lakes region is slow to change this year, just a 30% change at this time. The Barrie, Huronia region across to Collingwood and the Blue Mountain region, sees the colour about 50 to 60% turned with peak colour expected this Thanksgiving weekend.

The Owen Sound region and in particular the Inglis Falls area and across to the beautiful Beaver Valley, there is a 50 to 60% colour change at this time. The drive into the Beaver Valley from Grey County Road 4, in the south, is always outstanding during the fall. There are some nice pockets of bright orange and red in the area. The Hockley Valley area and into the Caledon region, is featuring a 30% change, with some nice pockets of burnt orange and yellow. The Elora Gorge and Fergus area has some very nice pockets of colour with the leaves about 50% turned with a nice mix of red, orange and green for contrast.

Quebec viewers - check here: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/features/fallcolour/pages/qc.htm#Abitibi/Témiscamingue