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Fall Colors Dot Arizona, New Mexico Landscapes

From the snow-dusted peaks of northern Arizona's San Francisco Mountains to the fire-singed mountainsides of New Mexico, Mother Nature is signaling that fall is here.

Forest officials say colors are at their peak in the high country around Flagstaff, along the Mogollon Rim and on Mt. Lemmon near Tucson.

In New Mexico, some spots are already past their peak thanks to cooler temperatures but other areas are beginning to pop with splashes of yellow, red and orange as the aspens, oak and cottonwoods change color.

For Los Alamos, this year marks one of the first in which the aspens are big enough — and bright enough — to catch the attention of fall leaf peepers. The area was devastated in 2000 and again in 2011 by record-setting wildfires.

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