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Enjoy the native prairie grasses, such as little bluestem and broom sedge, as they begin to show beautiful shades of orange, red, and purple. Sumacs, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy are just starting to turn red in a few parts of the region, and some black walnuts and honey locusts are just beginning to turn yellow. Trees stressed by lack of water earlier this summer and by other conditions have started to change earlier than normal. While most of the Kansas City Region is still green, leaves have just started to change. A good trip of 4–6 hours is Rollins Ferry Access to Pointers Creek Access on the Gasconade River. One last canoe trip is always enjoyable while the temperature remains warm.

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Reserve a free visit to this nonprofit nature garden at the link below before they close for the season! The woods display a diversity of trees framing lichen-covered rock outcrops. The native grasses and flowers are still quite picturesque, and you’re sure to see a few remaining butterflies.

Prairie Garden Trust in New Bloomfield is a great place to walk and enjoy the fall beauty. The red fruits on invasive bush honeysuckles and autumn olive make them easy to identify right now, so it’s a good time to go cut them to keep your woods healthy.

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Wildlife-friendly fields remain attractive: the native grasses are in full head, and the last of the native flowers are blooming, but sadly they are on the decline for the year. It will be exciting to watch them continue to change. Sugar maples - known to have some of the most vibrant fall color, ranging from red to orange to yellow all on the same tree - are beginning to shift away from green. Combine the red and yellow pigments and you get orange leaves, and many sassafras and black cherry trees are bright orange this week. Elms, walnuts, sycamores, hackberries, and red mulberries are progressing to yellow. Currently, vibrant red can be seen on Virginia creeper and smooth sumac, and dark red is streaked on flowering dogwood leaves. As the green fades, the leaves show hints of their red anthocyanins and yellow carotenoids, sometimes in spectacular combinations. The weather is getting cooler and the days shorter, which signals the trees to cease making green chlorophyll. You’re sure to find fun things to do along your scenic fall color trips. The Missouri Division of Tourism’s online calendar is packed with events happening all across Missouri.

If you can’t get out of town, enjoy places with mature trees, such as older neighborhoods, parks, and even cemeteries.

Even treeless areas, such as prairies and roadsides, display beautiful shades of gold, copper, purple, olive, and auburn with autumn wildflowers, shrubs, and curing, rustling grasses.

Visit MDC Conservation Areas and Missouri State Parks.

On a smaller scale, drive on back roads, hike, or take a float trip under a colorful forest canopy on a clear, blue-sky day.

For spectacular vistas, choose routes along rivers with views of forested bluffs, and along ridges with sweeping scenes of forested landscapes.

You can enjoy Missouri’s fall color almost anywhere. Reports appear weekly and are usually posted by Thursday evenings. MDC's Fall Color Reports usually begin in the second half of September (whenever colors start to appear) and wrap up around the middle of November, when most of the leaves have fallen or turned to brown. Much depends on the weather: during fall, but also during the entire growing season. Predicting the peak of fall color can be difficult. Generally, the color change is predictable, but it can vary from year to year. The progression of color change usually starts earliest in northern and western Missouri and moves southward and eastward across the state.

Fall color is usually finished by the middle of November. Normally by late October, the colors are fading and the leaves are dropping from the trees. This is when maples, ashes, hickories, and oaks are at the height of their fall display.

The peak of fall color in Missouri is usually around mid-October. By late September, black gum, bittersweet, and dogwood are turning. Sassafras, sumac, and Virginia creeper are some of the earliest to change, beginning in mid-September. In autumn, their leaves turn color at different times, so Missourians enjoy a fall color season that may last six to eight weeks. Missouri is blessed with a great variety of trees, shrubs, and woody vines.