Fall foliage

Fall foliage in Arkansas

Fall 2026 · updated daily

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Arkansas has a late, compact season and modest relief, so the change moves more by latitude than by elevation.

A tall gray bluff rising over green water, with red, orange and yellow trees along its base.
Tyler Bend, on the Buffalo National RiverPhoto: National Park Service · Public domain · source
The White River curving past a hillside of orange, red and yellow trees.
White River, near Eureka SpringsPhoto: Larry Smith · CC BY 2.0 · source

The Ozark highlands along the Buffalo National River and around Eureka Springs turn in the final week of October;

Wooded ridges of the Ouachita Mountains in yellow, orange and green under a hazy sky.
Caney Creek Wilderness, in the Ouachita MountainsPhoto: Tammo2011 · CC0 1.0 · source
A wooded mountainside below a sandstone bluff, its trees turning orange and red among the green.
Mount Magazine, looking westPhoto: Jason Ronza · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Cedar Falls dropping into a curved sandstone bowl, ringed by red, orange and green trees.
Cedar Falls, in Petit Jean State ParkPhoto: Marcus O. Bst · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source

the Ouachita Mountains, Mount Magazine and Petit Jean follow in the first week of November;

the river valleys and the country around Little Rock finish by mid-November.

Oaks and hickories dominate in russet and gold, with maple, black gum and sweetgum in the hollows.

In a typical year

Bordering states

Color: Fallcast, the same map as the app. Basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors, Protomaps. Place outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.