Fall Colors Are Creeping In Across Litchfield County

This is the most wonderful time of the year in New England, we're on the cusp of one of the world's richest displays of natural beauty, and the very first signs of it are showing up in Litchfield County.

I noticed last week that the overnight temperature has started to dip into the 40's on my way into work, and that crisp Canadian air has started to creep in from the Great Lakes. Today on my way home through Washington and Litchfield I noticed that quite a few trees have already started to make the turn, and the leaves are already starting to come down here and there.

'The New Hamptons' - Get Ready for the Leaf Peepers

I love that Litchfield is getting called 'The New Hamptons' by the Daily Mail, it's way better than being known as the ultimate leaf peeping destination in the United States. (I'm trying to downplay what we already know). This has been a long, warm, semi-dry Summer in Connecticut, and from what I can tell from the first bursts of yellow, red, and orange leaves we're on schedule to have an incredible peak this season around October 1, I'd estimate two to three weeks away.

Higher elevations are seeing the color at the moment, along Rt. 202 there was little change in New Milford, some in Washington, Bantam, and Litchfield, and you can see in the photo above that's the Naugatuck River in Torrington, where there is little change.