What an amazing Fall

Foliage season came to an end last week with the last remaining leaves falling from the trees. With nearly all of the leaves gone the trees are bare and twiggy. However, they’re still sitting on the ground in many areas, making some good opportunities for interesting foliage themed photographs.

Overall this Foliage season was very good. I feel we could have had a few more warm, sunny days and cool nights to really accelerate and punch the color but the colors were still very impressive.

We gave dozens of tours during the 2009 Foliage season and helped make thousands of impressive photographs. We’ll be posting some of the best on the site soon. If we took you on a tour and you haven’t shared yours with us please link us so we can include some!

If you’re interested in visiting Vermont next Fall, here are some tips from the Vermont Dept of Tourism:

• Make your lodging reservation as soon as possible. Then, when you come next year, make the following year’s reservation before you even check out. Then you don’t ever have to think about it again until you’re ready to come to Vermont.
• The myth of no rooms. You can find good rooms in Vermont, even during the peak of foliage. If you have your heart set on a particular room at a particular inn on a particular weekend, then make your reservations as far in advance as possible. However, even if you do decide to swing up to Vermont at the last minute, you can still find rooms. For help with this, you can consult our Lodging Availability Forecaster page that offers links to regional Chambers of Commerce that can help you find rooms.
• Find a room before you come. No matter how much we beg, plead, cajole and urge, some folks come up every year without room reservations on busy foliage weekends expecting to find available rooms. They can end up in a very stressful situation driving around desperately trying to find lodging late in the day. Our innkeepers, state Welcome Center staff, Chambers of Commerce, 1-800-VERMONT operators and others go out of their way to make referrals and help with lodging. However, why would you want to put yourself through the stress and panic in the first place? Book before you come!

Foliage season in Vermont is much longer than you think. The majority of foliage season visitors come to Vermont during the last week in September and the first two weeks of October. This is the time when peak foliage is generally at its broadest distribution statewide.

It is important to remember, however, that you can still find excellent foliage in the third week of October throughout much of the southern half of Vermont as well as in the Champlain Valley along the Route 7 corridor (along the western side of Vermont) and along the Connecticut River (in eastern Vermont).

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