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Fall Color

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Posted by Darrell Epps on September 22, 2011 at 12:14 AM
Good evening to all my photographer friends.
What date are you anticipating the fall color to begin and peak for the BLue Ridge Parkway from say the Fields of Dan down to Cherokee? I want to hit that stretch for some fall foliage photography and want to plan my calendar to maximize my time. Sggestions from you on locations would be great too!
Thanks and best to you all. :smile:
Posted by Don Mullaney on September 22, 2011 at 12:47 PM
You can figure Oct. 15th, plus or minus a couple of days. I'm at 4000 feet, in Beech Mtn., NC, and the maples are just getting color.
Posted by Richard Bernabe on September 28, 2011 at 8:09 AM
Just launched the office SENP fall color thread..if you see anything out there as far as autumn color is concerned, post it there for others! Thanks!
Posted by Richard Siggins on September 28, 2011 at 9:41 PM
I posted a shot taken last year on Oct. 10 near Greenbriar WV in the Man & Nature Gallery
http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/ic.cgi?a=vp&pr=181278&CGISESSID=d954dd887b874e8e2c22e5ac88b647a2&u=4337

Should give you an idea of the colors in West Virginia in the second week of Oct.
Posted by Robin Neville on October 2, 2011 at 9:08 AM
Darrell- I am planning to be up on the Blue Ridge near Mt Pisgah sometime the week of Oct 9, so we can up the color is good then ;)
Posted by Matthew Cromer on October 12, 2011 at 3:27 PM
I was up last weekend (as was Richard). Color then was at or near peak from 5200 feet on up (ie Rough Ridge on the slopes of Grandfather Mtn. and Graveyard Fields). At lower elevations color was hit-or-miss (mostly miss). Cataloochee in the Smokies had spectacular maple color at the field margins though -- elevation only 2600 feet (we were there for the elk).