Fall Colors in Vermont

Golden Yellow

• Gold and yellow covers the landscape in much of a Vermont fall scene. The colors can come in many variations of mountain ash, white ash or maple leaves as they change with the season. Sumac trees also offer a bright yellow serrated leaf with splashes of orange and red with the yellow. The yellow leaves of Vermont add light and brilliance to the collage of trees and shrubs that create that special fall landscape.

Orange

• The color orange comes to the Vermont fall season when the leaves turn between yellow and red. Different foliage offers different types of orange. The teardrop shaped tupelo (also known as the swamp tree) leaf is a bright, intense orange. The maple leaf is a multicolor participant in the Vermont landscape. At the middle of its color score, the maple leaf presents in both a light orange and a darker shade of orange later in the season.

Green With Brown

• If green seems absent in your mind when you picture a Vermont fall, think again. Even the Vermont colors of fall include green leaves and leaves with a combination of green and brown in them. Trees such as the aspen, poplar, yellow birch and striped maple can still be green in the fall Vermont sky and give the landscape a more intense color palette than just yellow, orange and red could offer.

Red

• Deep, intense red-colored leaves bring jewel-like colors to Vermont in the fall. The pointed lobe sugar maple leaf is a favorite in Vermont for its color. It is also popular because it produces maple syrup and sugar food products that are exported to the nation and the world. The pin cherry tree is another specimen that brings red to the countryside -- although its leaves are bright purplish-red.