Goodbye, leaf-peeping season. Hello, stick season.
The 2025 peak fall foliage season, one of the brightest and best times of the year in Upstate New York, is officially over.
I LOVE NY, the state’s tourism bureau, released its ninth and final foliage report of the year on Wednesday — reporting that peak foliage has arrived in its final Empire State destination: New York City.
Prime fall colors have faded from the rest of the state, including Upstate New York.
I LOVE NY, the state’s tourism bureau, has released its final fall foliage report of 2025, showing fall colors in all but the smallest stretch of New York are well past peak.I LOVE NY
As the fall colors fade, we’re turning our traveling sights on winter.
With meteorologists forecasting a “healthy snow season,” we are eagerly waiting for snow to fall and transform Upstate into a winter wonderland.
While trees bearing brown leaves or barren limbs are dominating most of Upstate, small hints of brilliance remain.
Here are four places where dedicated leaf peepers can catch a final glimpse of pretty, albeit past peak, autumn colors this weekend in Upstate New York:
Fall foliage 2025, Madison and Onondaga County. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.comdennis nett | dnett@syracuse.comHere are the color change predictions around Upstate New York for the week of Nov. 5-11, 2025, according to I LOVE NY:
Adirondacks
All reporting stations are now past peak
Capital-Saratoga
All reporting stations are now past peak
Catskills
All reporting stations are now past peak
Central New York
Gilboa, over 75%, past peakBeaver Lake Nature Center, 85%, past peak
Finger Lakes
Rochester, nearly 100%, past peakCanandaigua, 100%, past peakSeneca Falls, 85%, past peakLyons, 95%, past peak
Chautauqua-Allegheny
All reporting stations are now past peak
Greater Niagara
Lewiston, 90%, just-past peakNiagara Falls, 95%, past peak
Thousand Islands-Seaway
All reporting stations are now past peak
Hudson Valley
Hudson, 100%, past peakBeacon, 75%, past peakPoughkeepsie, 95%, past peak
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