2025 Autumn Colors in Michigan

 Michigan has had beautiful fall colors all the way into November this year.  Here are some parks and places we visited this Fall. 

October 14 2025 Ludington State Park 

October 14 2025

Gales Pond County Park in Oceana County

October 15

Stearns Creek County Park (north)

October 17 

Hofma Preserve, Grand Haven Township Park

October 19 2025

Connor Bayou Park, Ottawa County

October 21 2025 

Hofma Preserve, Grand Haven Township Park

October 21 2025

Stearns Creek Park, Ottawa County Park

October 24 2025

Rosy Mound Natural Area, Ottawa County Park

Barred Owl along the trail at Rosy Mound.

October 25 2025 Hofma Preserve

Tulip Tree

The leaves started to change color here around the middle of October.  The trees held their leaves a long time.  

Most mornings I have been riding my bike around the neighborhood. Every day I pedaled past the most colorful tree.  Finally, one day I stopped and took a picture.

Next post Wedding Anniversary trips up north. And more Fall color!

Kirk Park and Rosy Mound Natural Area, Ottawa County Michigan. November 1 and 2, 2021

 Both of these parks are along the shores of Lake Michigan, which means there are lots of stairs over forested dunes to get to the big Lake.  First Kirk Park.  I went here November 1, I counted 466 steps over the wooded dune.  Some of the stairs were eroded away last year with high Lake Michigan water levels.

Kirk Park

This is the map from my walk I didn't really go out into the lake. 

The next day I met my daughter at Rosy Mound Natural Area.  We walked all the trails and stairs!  It was a wonderful walk. 

I hope you enjoyed these walks. Thanks for stopping by.

A fun find on the first day of November 2018

 November 1st  My sister, Sugar, and I decided to meet up at Rosy Mound Natural Area, an Ottawa County Park.  The leaves were so bright and the temperature mild, we took advantage of the opportunity. 
I walked at this park the end of September and found several Autumn Coralroot Orchid plants growing here but they were done blooming.  Or so I thought.
 
 As we walked along I kept an eye out for the orchid, wondering if I could even find the tiny plants again.  Then, there one was, an Autumn Coralroot!  And it was blooming!  We saw several more of the plants although no more that were blooming.   

The petals are small and quite hard to see.  I put a leaf behind the flower for a background and to make it easier to focus on the tiny petals.  I know it's not much, but those are petals, so yes it is blooming. 
 

Here is one of the clusters of coralroot.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We enjoyed our walk, the beautiful trees, and each other's company.  I am so luck to have family nearby to get me out there.  You just never know what you might see on a walk, even if you have been to the same place many times!