Yesterday afternoon the sun came out on Lake Dunmore. The lake wasn't flat due to the wind and changing conditions so I didn't get reflections back from the water but I wanted capture the colors before they are gone.
I took this pano of Mount Moosalamoo across the lake. Good illustration of how Fall colors are progressing.
Colors are good but starting to wane. A few bare trees are visible along the shore and the top of the ridge has bare, brown strip.
This photo shows the cabins on the opposite shore and the wall of color above them.
Farther along the ridge extending out to Rattlesnake Cliff which is the rock outcropping at the end of the ridge. Rattlesnake Cliff is a popular hike with view of the lake and also of Lake Champlain valley and Adirondacks.
Looking south, you see the shadows creeping in. The afternoon sun was mostly hitting the east shore.
Cabins extend all along the lake on the opposite shore. Before the cabins, there were grand resort hotels on the lake. According to the New York Times in 1894, Picturesque Lake Dunmore was home to "two of the finest hotels in the state"
The cabins came later starting in the 1920s.
This photo was taken near where the Lake Dunmore Hotel once stood.
I'm sure the lake and mountain are about the same but everything else has changed. After the hotels and then the cabins came the campgrounds which were so popular as the automobile took America culture by storm.
The campgrounds are still popular and full every year. The hotels are long gone but two youth camps still exist that were started in 1910 and some of the old original 1920-30s cabins still exist mixed with the modern cabins and homes around the lake.