Cheaha Leaf Watch

Tim Miller of Odenville took this photo

From Tammy Power, who runs the lodge at Mt. Cheaha:

If your viewers drive from Munford or Hwy 21 side that is where more of the color is at this time. Something many people do not know but after 30 years I have found.

We have the following information:

Canopy color:
This is the color from the side with the trees on the side of the road and inside the national forest. Giving you an inside top and side cover more like your inside a tunnel. The color change starts at the bottom of the mountain and slowly goes to the top. So as you travel up it will be more green than at the bottom. This is still really pretty and in away to me God’s way of giving us more than one way to see the season. I think this is my favorite.

Top color:
This is the view you get from I 20, Hwy 49 and 281 where there is more view for you to look over the valley…. Then when you get to Cheaha State Park you see the top of the trees and this is the Peak of the season when this changes. What your web cam should get…. So I guess you can say when the color gets to the tip top of the trees.

I started noticing this years ago that we have color change from the second week of Oct. and most of November if the season is not really dry .. Mother nature is doing a fantastic job this year.

Thanks Tammy!

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