Fall foliage in Mid-Atlantic
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 sits within a day trip of the East Coast's largest cities.
99 hand-picked fall stops in Mid-Atlantic (leaves & views, farms & harvest, cider & donuts, Halloween haunts, towns & rides). Tap a 🍁 for its peak-color window, drag the date slider to watch the color arrive, or see every destination on the big map.
New York
Peak ~October 12
New York's Adirondacks and Catskills offer some of the East Coast's most dramatic peak views, with High Peaks scenic byways and Hudson Valley orchards.
New Jersey
Peak ~November 3
Oaks, maples, and sassafras color the Kittatinny Ridge and Delaware Water Gap by early-to-mid October, while the sandy Pine Barrens hold pitch pine and blueberry-bush red into November farther south.
Pennsylvania
Peak ~October 14
Pennsylvania's ridge-and-valley forests color early in the Poconos and again in the Laurel Highlands, with dense oak-hickory stands statewide.
Delaware
Peak ~November 4
Delaware's low, flat terrain turns gradually, with oaks and sweetgums coloring the Brandywine Valley by mid-October and bald cypress swamps at Trap Pond State Park holding russet tones into November.
Maryland
Peak ~October 31
From Garrett County's sugar maple ridges peaking in early October to the oak-hickory woods around Catoctin Mountain Park and the Eastern Shore's cypress sloughs coloring into November, Maryland spans the season.
Virginia
Peak ~October 22
Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway carry travelers through oak-hickory ridges and scattered sugar maples in Shenandoah National Park, with color typically peaking in mid-October at higher elevations.
West Virginia
Peak ~October 15
Almost entirely mountainous, West Virginia's sugar and red maples turn early, with the Highland Scenic Highway and Blackwater Falls State Park in the Allegheny highlands often peaking by late September into early October.
Top fall stops in Mid-Atlantic
99 hand-picked places across 7 regions, by what you go for.
Leaves & views
- Central ParkCity park · Peak Oct 29
- Longwood GardensGarden · Peak Oct 28
- WinterthurGarden · Peak Oct 29
- Swallow Falls State ParkState park · Peak Oct 11
- Skyline DriveScenic drive · Peak Oct 16
- New River Gorge National Park & PreserveNational park · Peak Oct 14
- Prospect ParkCity park · Peak Oct 30
- Cunningham Falls State ParkState park · Peak Oct 25
- Old Rag MountainTrail · Peak Oct 15
- Blackwater Falls State ParkState park · Peak Oct 7
- New York Botanical GardenGarden · Peak Oct 28
- Mount TammanyTrail · Peak Oct 19
- Ricketts Glen State ParkState park · Peak Oct 14
- Fort Tryon ParkCity park · Peak Oct 28
- High Point State ParkState park · Peak Oct 15
- Leonard Harrison State ParkState park · Peak Oct 10
- Great Falls ParkNational park · Peak Oct 28
- Seneca RocksViewpoint · Peak Oct 6
- Bear Mountain State ParkState park · Peak Oct 21
- Coopers Rock State ForestForest · Peak Oct 15
- Storm King Art CenterGarden · Peak Oct 20
Farms & harvest
- Terhune OrchardsOrchard · Color peaks Oct 29
- Alstede FarmsFarm · Color peaks Oct 23
- Fifer OrchardsOrchard · Color peaks Nov 4
- Butler's OrchardOrchard · Color peaks Oct 28
- Cox FarmsFarm · Color peaks Oct 26
- Ramsey's FarmFarm · Color peaks Oct 29
- Graves Mountain FarmOrchard · Color peaks Oct 15
- Bowles FarmsCorn maze · Color peaks Nov 3
Cider & donuts
Halloween
- Eastern State PenitentiaryHaunted attraction · Color peaks Oct 30
- FrightlandHaunted attraction · Color peaks Nov 1
- Field of Screams MarylandHaunted attraction · Color peaks Oct 29
- Six Flags Great Adventure Fright FestHaunted attraction · Color peaks Nov 3
- Ghost Tours of New HopeGhost tour · Color peaks Oct 27
- Original Fells Point Ghost WalkGhost tour · Color peaks Oct 30
Cities in Mid-Atlantic
Guides & reading for Mid-Atlantic
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