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The Golden State is living up to its name this week, as California’s mid-elevation mountain ranges are draped with not only gilded leaves, but red ones, yellow ones, purple ones, too.

Enjoying one of its more colorful autumns in recent years, California’s 58 counties have been courteously taking turns stepping into the leaf-peeping spotlight: this week, just as the Eastern Sierra range exits stage left, after putting on a brilliant and colorful spectacle, we have the Northern and Western Sierra, Cascades and Southern California mountains come out to do their thing. Related Articles 10 Gold Country autumn adventures: From harvest fests to the spooky and spectacular

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John Poimiroo, the marketing consultant from El Dorado Hills who runs the California Fall Color website as a labor of love, says the most colorful foliage right now is peaking at between 2,500 and 5,000 feet in elevation, depending on location and climate. In the coming weeks, that peak level will come down in elevation, all the way to sea level.

Poimiroo’s “Peak of the Week” right now is the Shasta Cascade region with peak color along the Klamath River (CA-96), and from Sims Flat north to Mt Shasta (I-5). And if you’re thinking of hitting the road this weekend to soak up the scenery, you might head for Plumas County, where the black oak are about to hit their prime. Or maybe check out the Feather River Canyon (CA-70), which Poimiroo describes on his blog as “a beautiful drive with peaking bigleaf maple, black oak and vines carrying yellow, orange and chartreuse foliage.”

Relying in part on his volunteer corps of leaf lovers, whose rainbow-hued photos on the website would make Carmen Miranda green with envy, Poimiroo has been guiding Californians to their state’s color hot spots in real time since 2009. His website’s motto – “Dude, autumn happens here, too” – reflects Poimiroo’s unabashed campaign to get those color-conceited residents of New England to give California its props when it comes to spectacular autumnal foliage.

Here’s more of the latest color news from Poimiroo:

In Trinity County, Weaverville and Coffee Creek are packed with color;

In the Western Sierra, Calaveras Big Trees State Park, Yosemite and Kings Canyon National Parks are all seeing peak-level color: Poimiroo writes: “in Yosemite Valley, bigleaf maple cover Southside Drive with a yellow halo, pink-leaved dogwood brighten the Tuolumne and Mariposa Groves of Giant Sequoia and black oak will continue to carry orange color in the Valley and at Wawona for another couple of weeks, conditions permitting;”

Down in Southern California, the San Bernardino, San Jacinto and Laguna Mountains are all at peak color levels. But hurry, says Poimiroo: This is the last week to see them at their peak;

Finally, the site says that foliage will soon be peaking in Sespe Wilderness, north of Ojai, and along the Sierra foothills; and in the coming weeks, Central Valley orchards, the Bay Area and Gold Country are expected to excel, at least foliage-wise. This trend should continue until Turkey Day.

Check out some of the photos sent in by Poimiroo’s volunteer leaf-loving photographers:

Crescent Mills, Plumas County (Credit: Jeff Luke Titcomb)

Topaz Lake (Credit: Jeff Simpson)

Black oak, Idyllwild, San Jacinto Mountains (Credi: Alena Nicholas)

Fremont cottonwood, Piedra Blanca (Credit: Lance Pifer)

Tuolumne Grove of Giant Sequoias (Credit: Thomas Haraikawa)

Black oak, Sunrise Highway, San Diego County (Credit: Dylan Ren)