Fall Foliage Map
Planning a trip into the Smoky Mountains to see fall color? Want to know where to find the best color? Check the online fall foliage map provided by Blue Ridge Mountain Life, which shows color changes week by week.Find the updates at http://blueridgemountainlife.com/fall-foliage/#toc-fall-foliagemaps.
Fall Fairs and Festivals Guide
You can view the full fairs and festivals guide with more than 100 day-trips around the Tennessee Valley here.
Where’s the color?
That’s the question on a lot of minds as trees around Chattanooga remain vividly green. The last half of October is traditionally when Mother Nature begins splashing color across mountain palettes, and hints of red, orange and gold tease what beauty is developing. But so far, the only leaf action has been “brown then down.”
That early leaf drop is a result of drought, says Paul Barys, WRCB-TV chief meteorologist. Chattanooga and areas of Northeast Alabama are categorized as “exceptional drought,” according to the U.S. Drought Monitor map.