Green | October 23, 2009 | 1 comment

Fall 2009

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Prentice Cooper State Forest is blanketed with bright orange, yellow, red, and violet colors and still some green left as well.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is brimming with fall colors.

At the highest elevations, the colors are now near peak.

At the lower and middle elevations, tuliptree, birch, and sourwood are creating a patchwork of brilliant red, yellow and orange. The color is expected to peak below 4,000 feet near the end of October.

Bears, chipmunks, and squirrels, are busily gathering acorns, walnuts, and other wild foods.

Suggested scenic drives are: Foothills Parkway East and West, Cataloochee Valley,and Lakeview Drive

Every trail in the park is perfect for hiking right now. Fall foliage and abundant late wildflowers await discovery around every bend.

In Southeast Tennessee, touches of color are beginning show in the valleys and lower elevations. The color changes are moving rapidly on the Cherohala Skyway. This week provided a rare occurrence of ice & snow at 4,000 feet with fall colors peeping through the winter blanket.

Middle and West Tennessee are just beginning to see splashes of color across the landscape with predictions of peak color to occur the first and second weeks of November.
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