Photo: Beautiful Colorful Fall Leaves Picture

Along the road to Rock Lake, the forest floor is covered in beautiful colorful fall leaves. The leaves' autumn colors are golden yellow, brick red, and bright red add to the wonderful scenery of the Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.

Beautiful colorful fall leaves show their amazing colors in autumn as leaves fall from their trees in glorious colors of yellow, gold, red, purple and brown. The autumn colors carpet the forest floor of the Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.

Leaves changing to these beautiful autumn colors is a peculiar act of nature. Late summer or early fall the chlorophyll, which is the pigment that makes a leaf green, slows down and eventually is closed off from the veins of the leaf. During the summer, the sun's rays capture the chlorophyll and uses the energy to produce the plant food. Because the protein in the leaf is lost, the change of colors occur.

The beautiful hues of colors of yellow, brown, orange are the pigments known as carotenoids. ... continue below the picture...

... The reds and purple hues are another group of pigments called anthocyanins.

Established in 1893, Algonquin Provincial Park is the oldest provincial park and became a national historic site in 1992.

The provincial park sits between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River. The size of the park is about 7,653 square kilometers or 4,755 miles and has over 2,400 lakes in addition to rivers and streams.

Fall in the forest along the road to Rock Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.