My Photo Survey - Start of Fall in Utah last 14 years | Ecency

I did a survey to see when my first scenic pictures of fall were taken over the years in Utah partly because i'm hearing reports of some fall colors hitting areas I like to visit. I'm heading up to the mountains this week and thought i'd take the chance to look through my "Best Of" catalog to see what my fall experiences in Utah have been like.

Keep in mind I'm not out taking pictures every day specially some years where I was busy doing portrait and wedding pictures.
Some years I was traveling out of Utah during all of fall or a good portion.

2019 - Sep 27

Fall colors started with maples, oaks and then aspens started much later after this.

I stayed up in the canyon for a couple weeks and had fall pretty much the whole time i was there. Sep 27 to Oct 10th
And i was back after a trip getting fall shots Oct 17th at the bottom of the canyon
Fall had barely begun in the narrows Oct 26th

2018 - Sep 15

Since this was pretty recent and one of the years I lived up in the AF canyon for a week or two I can say at this day there was only barely a hint of colors in places but those places were pretty nice.

By the 26th the aspens were turning yellow nicely
I stayed until Oct 4th and there was still a decent amount of fall remaining.
I was doing fall pictures Oct 24th down in the valley

2017 - Sep 18

This was a hike up to Lake Blanche (Little Cottonwood) and I remember thinking how I wanted to come up to Lake blanche for actual fall colors... this was barely a taste of the most fall i saw... most was still green.

I was getting lots of other fall pictures in other canyons on the 23rd
Prime tibble fork photoshoot day the 30th
Fall had started at Temple Square by the 1st of Oct
Squaw peak area was prime Oct 5th
Logan temple was prime Oct 22nd
Some SLC parks were prime Oct 24th
And i was getting fall pictures at St George temple Nov 26th

2015 - Sep 26

I don't remember this year as much but this is up Squaw peak road which is a popular fall spot with lots of maples/oaks.

I was doing pictures up the cottonwoods 4th and 13th and lower AF canyon the 14th all with tons of fall colors
Cascade spring colors were well past prime the 24th of October

2012 - Sep 24

The first title picture is also on this date in the same area up Nebo Loop
Fall was pretty strong up there at that time that year.

The 4th of Oct was pretty prime for colors as well
The 19th and 21st in Sundance was pretty past peak but still had pockets of color

2011 - Sep 17

I actually have no memories of this photo adventure seems like up one of the canyons probably AF. But looks like i was taking pictures of 100% green aspen groves that same day.