Destinations
123 regions across both hemispheres, each with peak timing modeled from real weather data — organized into the places people actually plan trips around.
Every 🍁 is a hand-picked fall destination — parks and drives, but also orchards, cider mills, and haunts. Drag the date slider to watch the color sweep the map, or explore them all on the map.
United States
New England
6 destinations · Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine…
Peak October 10 – October 25
The classic American leaf-peeping heartland: sugar maples, white-steepled villages, and mountain byways from the Green Mountains to the Berkshires, peaking north to south from late September through mid-October.
Mid-Atlantic
7 destinations · New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania…
Peak October 14 – November 7
From the Adirondacks and Catskills down the Appalachian spine to Virginia's Blue Ridge, the Mid-Atlantic stretches the season deep into November — big oak and maple color within a day trip of the East Coast's largest cities.
Southeast
10 destinations · North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia…
Peak October 29 – December 5
The Southern Appalachians hold some of the most biodiverse hardwood forest on Earth — the Smokies and Blue Ridge Parkway lead a season that starts at elevation in early October and runs toward the Gulf states into late November.
Midwest
12 destinations · Ohio, Indiana, Illinois…
Peak October 3 – October 31
Maple and oak country around the Great Lakes and beyond: Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin's Door County, and river-bluff drives along the Mississippi, with color sweeping south from late September through October.
Rockies
5 destinations · Montana, Wyoming, Idaho…
Peak October 8 – October 15
Aspen country. Gold sweeps through Colorado's high passes, the Tetons, and Montana's larch forests in a short, dramatic window — mostly mid-September to early October, and earlier the higher you go.
Southwest
5 destinations · Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico…
Peak October 18 – November 19
Desert states with real mountain fall color: aspens on Arizona's San Francisco Peaks and New Mexico's Sangre de Cristos, bigtooth maples in the Texas Hill Country, and canyon cottonwoods that glow gold into November.
West Coast & Alaska
4 destinations · Washington, Oregon, California…
Peak September 2 – November 13
From Alaska's early-September birch and tundra color through the Cascades' larches and vine maples to California's Eastern Sierra aspen canyons — the Pacific states run one of the longest, most varied seasons anywhere.
Canada
Europe
Asia
Japan
5 destinations · Hokkaidō, Tōhoku — Northern Honshū, Japanese Alps — Chūbu…
Koyo season moves south across Japan from Hokkaido in late September to Kyoto's temple gardens in late November — momiji maples, ginkgo avenues, and alpine rowan tracked with the same devotion as cherry blossoms.
China
3 destinations · Beijing Hills — Fragrant Hills, Jiuzhaigou & Western Sichuan, Shangri-La — Northwest Yunnan
From Manchuria's birch and larch to Beijing's Fragrant Hills, the ancient ginkgos of the Qinling, and Jiuzhaigou's lake-mirrored valleys — China's fall color spans subarctic forest to subtropical mountains.
More of Asia
8 destinations · Pontic Mountains — Northern Turkey, Georgia — Greater Caucasus, Armenia — Dilijan & Lesser Caucasus…
Beyond Japan and China: Turkey's Pontic Mountains, the Caucasus, Iran's Hyrcanian forests, and the Himalayan belt from Kashmir to Bhutan — autumn along the old mountain roads of the continent.
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Australia
6 destinations · Tasmania — Central Highlands, Southern Tasmania, Victoria High Country…
Autumn in April and May: exotic maples and oaks in hill-station towns, poplar avenues in the high country, and Tasmania's fagus — Australia's only winter-deciduous native tree — turning gold on the highlands.
New Zealand
2 destinations · Central Otago & Queenstown, Canterbury & Mackenzie Country
Southern-hemisphere gold in April and May: Central Otago's poplars and willows around Arrowtown and Wanaka, and larch and cottonwood color through the Mackenzie basin's turquoise-lake country.
Latin America
7 destinations · Bariloche & the Argentine Lakes, Mendoza — Vineyards & Andes, El Chaltén & Santa Cruz…
From Mexico's oak-and-fir highlands to the far south, where Patagonia's southern beech forests turn the Andes crimson in April and May around Bariloche, Torres del Paine, and Tierra del Fuego.