Fall Color

Images in this gallery are from my fall color viewing trips to Eastern Washington. This gallery has twin purposes - to showcase the incredible fall color we have in this state, notwithstanding her evergreen reputation, and to provide other photographers / leaf-peepers with ideas on where to shoot/view fall foliage in WA state. Accordingly, I will attempt to identify all photos with location tags as accurately as possible. Based on my travels, here's a collection of some of the fall color hotspots in this state: (a) along SR-20 to Winthrop (past Washington Pass), (b) Patterson Lake area in Winthrop, (c) Winthrop to Twisp along SR-20 (consider this detour: take the Twin Lakes loop road from Winthrop which will drop you back onto SR-20), (d) in Twisp, take Twisp River road to the end and explore the several side roads along the way, especially Poorman Creek road, (e) SR-153 from Twisp to Pateros, (f) Yakima River Canyon road (SR-821) from Ellensburg to Yakima, especially the Umptanum Creek area, (g) Tumwater Canyon along Hwy. 2 from Coles Corner to Leavenworth, and (h) FS 9712 (to Haney Meadows), accessed from Blewett pass, via FS 9716.