Intermission!

We're back in Winter Garden for the next few months, dealing with some health issues, but will be back on the road soon enough. Stay tuned!

Leaf-Peeping In The Northeast, 3

Concluding our 2026 leaf-peeping tour...

Another day, another covered bridge; this in Warren, Vermont; some
less touristy than others...

Scenes, passing through Vermont, on Vermont route 100

Mountains not Green

Reminded us of scenes in the Bitterroots...

Main building, Breadloaf, Middlebury, Vermont; major literary site

Beautiful Victorian in Middlebury; wish we could have explored more

By the time we got back into New York, relatively urgent priorities 
were calling us to return to Winter Garden; and so we cut our fall trip
somewhat short, and sped back to Florida, 1500 miles in 3 days

Wildflowers welcomed us to North Carolina; heavy rain welcomed
us to Florida...but we got back just fine...to be continued

Leaf-Peeping in the Northeast, 2

Continuing our slow drive through New Hampshire and Vermont...

Still on the Kank (-amagus)

Rocky Gorge, on the Kank, near Conway, NH

Looking the other way

Nearby Lily Pond, on the Kank

Albany Covered Bridge, near Albany, NH

Swift River

All the hues

Sugar Hill Scenic Vista, near Lincoln, NH

Us, there

Or possibly the Hancock Overlook

Cannon Cliff, Cannon Mountain, Franconia Notch, NH; largest vertical
rock face in the eastern US

The Eaglet, Eagle Cliff, Franconia Notch

Artists Bluff, Franconia Notch

Appreciating local architecture...in village after village

Now in Vermont, Smugglers' Notch

The only interesting car we saw...

Stowe Community Church, Stowe, Vermont, iconic view...

Impossibly long line to buy ice cream at Ben and Jerry's...been there, done that

So we settled for an ussie and hoped for a DQ down the road

Corporate history at the DQ

Leaf-Peeping In The Northeast,1

After Acadia we turned our attention fully to the changing colors, tuning in to the various state and national leaf-peeping websites, seeking higher ground, and heading generally in the direction of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and New York. Reports suggested the best fall color in ten years--coincidentally, our last leaf-peeping visit was in 2016--and we were not disappointed with 2026. This and the following couple of posts will be lighter on itinerary than on the color and pix themselves, but we'll add location information as we can reconstruct it.

In the White Mountains, New Hampshire; why did the turkeys cross 
the road?

I thought you had to walk the Appalachian Trail

At the Appalachian Mountainering Club facility at Pinkham Notch, NH 

Helpful etc.

Pinkham Notch

Mountaineering class

In White Mountain National Forest

On the Kancamagus Highway, White Mountains, NH

Mount Willey, Crawford Notch, NH

Beaver Pond, still on the Kancamagus Highway, NH; actually, we did
it twice, coming and going...

Mount Washington, from Bretton Woods, NH; been there,
done that

One of many famous, huge, old hotels in the region