Green Lakes State Park beautiful and unique state park featuring mineral rich waters, meromictic ecosystems, and old growth forest outside of Syracuse, NY. I went out for a 1.5 hour walk along these lakes on a beautiful fall morning around 7 AM.

It is a three mile walk around both Green Lakes and Round Lake, and is very popular for crazy suburbanite joggers, which will try to run you over when you go for an early morning walk. In the day time in the fall it’s even more crowed, though there is no entry charge after Labor Day Weekend

Watching the sun rise across the lake.

The colors along the trail as the sun rose where spectacular.

As I walk along the very colorful tree line along the lake.

As the fog rises on Green Lake and over green lake.

Walking over to Round Lake and watching the colors of the trees reflect on the lake’s surface.

On a brightly lit trail around Round Lake as the sun filters through the colors of fall.

And dozens of color reflect upon Round Lake.

Then I walk over to Green Lake with the colors at peak on a very beautiful fall morning.

From the southern edge of Green Lake, there is this pretty little point jetting out into the Lake.

I proceeded to walk along to the western Edge Of Green Lake to see the bright colors across the lake. This is from the point shown in the previous photo.

One last view of the colors, as I return back to my truck.

The Old Administration Building at Green Lakes (taken the previous afternoon).

The New Administration Building at Green Lakes.

Note: The best time for peak folliage at Green Lakes State Park is during the Columbus Day Weekend in October. This is when I was out hiking here. If you want to visit it during the most pretty part of the day, make sure to get here right at the crack of dawn, which occurs about 15 minutes later then surrounding areas, due to the low elevation of the lakes.

Here is a map of the walk around Green Lake and Round Lake. If you are doing it in the morning, it’s best to walk around the Eastern Shores first for the sunrise, and the Western Shores second to see the colors on the leaves.

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