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If you can make it to the Smoky Mountains or the Blue Ridge Parkway sometime over the next 20 days, it’s the best time of the year to see the foliage. Doesn’t hurt to stop in Asheville (NC), Gatlinburg (TN), or Cherokee (NC) briefly either if you have the time.
It may be the best time to visit the foliage, but be warned it is the worst time for traffic and crowds.
Warning: always get a second opinion/source. I planned a trip to north Georgia based off of this exact website three years ago and it ended up being about 3-4 weeks before the leaves turned. Worst website ever.
It has a link for you to submit your observations and improve the data.
If you can make it to the Smoky Mountains or the Blue Ridge Parkway sometime over the next 20 days, it’s the best time of the year to see the foliage. Doesn’t hurt to stop in Asheville (NC), Gatlinburg (TN), or Cherokee (NC) briefly either if you have the time.
Take a detour into Transylvania County and look for white squirrels.
If you can make it to the Smoky Mountains or the Blue Ridge Parkway sometime over the next 20 days, it’s the best time of the year to see the foliage. Doesn’t hurt to stop in Asheville (NC), Gatlinburg (TN), or Cherokee (NC) briefly either if you have the time.
It may be the best time to visit the foliage, but be warned it is the worst time for traffic and crowds.
There are times when it takes 2 hours to go from I-40 to Gatlinburg on TN-66. It's worse than NYC/LA traffic.
Have you ever been up near the Cumberland Gap around this time? I imagine that it's also beautiful but less crowded (I've only ever been there in the summer).
If you can make it to the Smoky Mountains or the Blue Ridge Parkway sometime over the next 20 days, it’s the best time of the year to see the foliage. Doesn’t hurt to stop in Asheville (NC), Gatlinburg (TN), or Cherokee (NC) briefly either if you have the time.
The Moog store in Asheville has dozens of synths just out and hooked up for visitors to play on their sales floor. Best toy store I've been to in years!
This is just plain wrong, and makes no sense. If the leaves froze and died during the winter, how is this different from the tree losing the leaves to begin with?
Trees lose their leaves to stop the process of drawing water up from the roots through their trunks. If water were to go through the freeze/thaw cycle inside the long "straws" of the tree trunk, the tree would be torn apart from the expansion/contraction cycle of the ice.
So much for making things accessible to the color-blind.