National Forest Service Fall Colors Hotline and Website

2011 Fall Colors from Southern Colorado

The National Forest Service has created a new website and hotline to help you find the best places to see Fall Colors. While in most places this year the fall colors are all but gone you can certainly mark this for next fall.

National Forest Service Fall Colors Website

 http://www.fs.fed.us/fallcolors/

National Forest Service Fall Colors Hotline

 1-800-354-4595

For the Hotline press these numbers to select the states that you are interested in.

#1 for Montana, North Dakota and N. Idaho
#2 for Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and E. Wyoming
#3 for Arizona and New Mexico
#4 for W. Wyoming, S. Idaho, Nevada, Utah, small portions of eastern California
#5 for California
#6 for Washington State and Oregon
#7 for Alaska
#8 for Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia
#9 for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Maine

Fall Colors Webcam

There is also a Fall Colors Webcam page at: http://www.fs.fed.us/fallcolors/cam/webcam.shtml

I don’t what you think but I for one am excited to see that the National Forest Service is making this effort to provide these wonderful online services. You will also find links for videos, things for kids to do, links for finding National Forests and other resources.

So if you are looking for something to do in the “Land Out West” you might want to start right here at the National Forest Service Website.