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Topic: Advice requested

Posted By: ArenaBlanca
Subject: Advice requested
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 12:13pm

I am starting to plan the late summer travel adventure. We are planning to leave from southern NM and go to Wisconsin. Current plans are to cross into Canada, travel across to New York state, then to North Carolina (to see relatives) before we arrive at the mini mini rally in Kentucky. Then we will come home.

My dear wife has never seen the fall foliage colors and very much would like to see then. As the rally starts 10 October , I am wondering if the leave will have turned by then. I realize that this depends upon the weather but what is "normal?"

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Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 12:17pm

The leaves will start changing colors in northern Vermont by late august and will continue through Sept and October . I imagine upstate New York will be similar.

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Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 12:21pm

We usually head to Cape Hatteras for the month of October, So when we head out near the end of September there is a lot of color all along Interstate 91 from the Canadian border through Massachusetts.

Interstate 87 runs parallel on the New York side

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2017 Ford F150
2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk
Previously owned
2015 Rpod 179
2010 Rpod 171

Posted By: ZuBrew
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 1:02pm

When you're traveling through Canada to New York state and then to North Carolina, maybe cross into New York either at I81 near Wellesley Island or at Cornwall and then drive down through the Adirondacks. You should see some great color and there are several places to stay at.

Sounds like a great trip.

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Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 1:10pm

October there may be some color here at the mini, but mid Oct is probably just before the peak.. weather is always a factor. Early muzzle loader season is late Oct, and I often love that weekend just for the foliage, as much as for the stocking of the freezer..

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Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 9:28pm

If you plan on crossing the U.P. of Michigan en route to Canada from Wisconsin the colors will normally peak between mid and the 3rd week of September in the western portion of the Upper Peninsula. Northern lower peninsula of Michigan normally peaks between October 5 - 15.

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Posted By: Janis Schoen
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2018 at 10:08pm

I am a librarian so I looked this up for you. Hope it helps

Experience regional variations when it comes to fall foliage on the East Coast. The northern reaches of Maine see colors beginning to change in September, while Vermont, New Hampshire and northern New York peak in early October. Massachusetts and southern New York usually peak in mid-October, while the Washington D.C. area and Virginia are aflame in late October. Visitors to the Carolinas will see colors from late October to early November, and farther south, in Georgia, you'll have to wait until early November.

Posted By: henryv
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2018 at 6:21am

I am a North Carolina native. The mountains are usually spectacular around that time. Don't forget to visit the Great Smoky Mountains if you get a chance.

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Posted By: DavMar
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2018 at 9:21pm

From the mountains to the sea you can't beat NC but hey don't mind me because I live in the Tarheel state, too.

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