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Add your photos to our "Fall in Utah 2006" collection. Email them to photos@ksl.comDina Freedman Reporting
It's starting to really feel like fall and the leaves are catching up to the season. The leaves have been going from summer green to autumn red, yellow and gold.
Faye Rutishauser, Red Butte Gardens: "The main cause are the shorter days and the cooler nights, and that means the cells are starting to break down, which reveals cells that are called carotenoids. That causes the yellows and the oranges to be seen."
Fall color will be peaking in the next couple of weeks across northern Utah, especially if we keep with the warm sunny days and the cool nights.
If you're planning on taking a drive this weekend to check out some of the color, Logan Canyon and the Tony Grove areas will be some places to check out in the North. The recent cold snap could have made some of the leaves drop too soon but healthy rain totals this year are helping out.
Faye Rutishauser, Red Butte Gardens: "Tress will be stressed if they haven't experienced good conditions throughout the summer. Drought can have, can stress the trees where the leaves don't stay on the trees long enough."
Oak trees have already been changing but maple, sycamore, sumacs and aspen will be following in the next few weeks. Southern Utah can expect colors to change now through November.
Can't make it up to some of these canyons in the North? Just hang out because peak color will work its way southward soon.
