New
England may get the fame but North Carolina gets the glory of
fall's magnificent foliage color display. North Carolina's Great
Smokies have at least twice the color season as New England's
famous White Mountains, according to Dr. C. Ritchie Bell,
former NC State Botanist and founder of the NC Botanical Gardens
at UNC-Chapel Hill. "If you want really a long season, lots of
color, changing color, a tapestry of color, go down to the Smokies,"
he recommends on NCnatural.com.
"There you've got many, many more species of trees involved and
they come on in their own good time, you'll have six weeks, or
more, of color."