Fall colors are vibrant in the Boone area and worth the drive up for at least another week. The major change from last weekend to this one has been the continued coloration by the maples and the beginning of coloration by the red, scarlet, pin and black oaks (Quercus rubra, coccinea, prinus and velutina). When [...]
Knoxville News Sentinel~ Every year, Kathy Gould Mathews takes a deep breath and weighs in on the fall foliage season. An associate professor of biology at Western Carolina University specializing in plant systematics, Mathews does not take her annual forecast lightly. Neither do the tourist industries across Western North Carolina and East Tennessee who count [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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