Friday, October 1, 2010

Map of the Weekend-Your Fall Foliage Travel Guide

Looking for the prettiest leaves this weekend? The Foliage Network has you covered - some of the country anyway. They have a network of spotters to help them construct maps like this:

Or this one if you're more of a midwestern type of leaf peeper:


They also have the southeast but there's not much to report there yet. In the Northeast elevation is a huge factor whereas in the flatter Midwest it's more about how far north you are - though maybe elevation accounts for the western slant of the moderate-high areas.


If you're going to Wisconsin, the state's tourism department has a nice interactive map where you can mouse over a county and get "color meter" scores from specific areas within.



Finally, I couldn't resist making an animation from the northeast reports to show the spread of color. Happy leaf travels!


NE Foliage Animation

2 comments:

Michael5000 said...

What's the deal with Rhode Island? Too good for leaf peeping?

Dug said...

"Due to a lack of foliage spotters, we regret that we will no longer be covering Delaware, Minnesota and Rhode Island."

Not many trees in Rhode Island anyway.