Fall foliage

Fall foliage in Michigan

Fall 2026 · updated daily

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Michigan’s season begins in the Upper Peninsula and takes most of a month to reach the southern counties.

A road curving through hardwoods in gold, orange and red leaves, under a partly cloudy sky.
The road to Copper Harbor, on the Keweenaw PeninsulaPhoto: Richie Diesterheft · CC BY 2.0 · source
A straight road running through tall trees whose leaves are bright gold and orange.
A road in Pictured Rocks National LakeshorePhoto: Stevenliuyi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Sunset over a long lake in a forested valley, with red and orange hillsides in the foreground.
Lake of the Clouds, in the Porcupine MountainsPhoto: Stevenliuyi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

The Keweenaw, Pictured Rocks and the Porcupine Mountains turn in the first half of October;

A road curving through woods of green and gold trees, with orange leaves along the pavement edge.
The Tunnel of Trees, on State Highway 119 near Harbor SpringsPhoto: Aaron Burden · CC0 · source

the Straits and the Tunnel of Trees follow in the third week;

Sleeping Bear, Traverse City and the northern Lower Peninsula peak in the last days of the month, and the southern counties finish in early November.

Sugar maple, aspen and birch carry the north in red and gold; oaks and hickories take over southward.

The lakeshores generally run a few days behind the inland woods.

In a typical year

Bordering states

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