Fall Color – North Carolina Travel & Tourism

Asheville appears to be your best bet for mountain fall colors. The higher elevations along the Blue Ridge Parkway are past their peak, but down around the city, they are still quite showy. In the Asheville area, the oaks and hickories are peaking, with their yellows, reds and browns, along with red sourwoods, the occasional [...]

Weekly Fall Color Reports – Fall Color l Fall Fishing in NC – North Carolina Travel & Tourism

Week #7, October 27th

Mountain Region

Howard Neufeld, expert mountain reporter

Well folks, come on up for a drive and a view – the northwest mountains still offer spectacular to see. And if you take the Blue Ridge Parkway between Virginia and Asheville, you can view the colors as they move down-slope. Here in the [...]

Monday Mountains…

We drove into the darkness on Sunday to get to Birmingham. The only observations from the drive on Sunday were we both commented on how dry Mississippi looked. It was a noticeable change right at the state line. The roadside went from green in Louisiana to brown looking in Mississippi. I think it was actually [...]