Share travel tips with fellow leaf-peepers on where to go and what to see this year. Subscribe to the RSS feed for this Forum http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/list.php?22 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:38:09 -0500 Phorum 5.2.10 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10284,10284#msg-10284 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10284,10284#msg-10284 I'm getting old because it's so much harder to take it all back down into the dungeon than it was to get it out...

I'm hoping everyone will post their pictures in the **NEW*** Halloween reader photo gallery. I'll be posting some up there in a little while. Meanwhile I have a bunch here [photo.vistaphotography.com] and this is open to all.

Please share what you have for Halloween and if enough people want to talk about Halloween I'll create a permanent thread for Halloween...

Jeff]]> folgerj Yankee Foliage Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:01:10 -0500 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10233,10233#msg-10233 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10233,10233#msg-10233
We will have a full day on 10/10 and half day on 10/11. We would like to pick one place to drive around and see the scenic roads,fall leaves,bridges,little towns, apple orchards, etc. Based on peak foliage, which area would one recommend: Vermont or New Hampshire? My husband was thinking we should pick Rhode Island and/or Massachusetts but looking at the foliage map, it seems too early to go to these areas this upcoming weekend. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks, Mandy]]> mkjohl Yankee Foliage Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:36:41 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10231,10231#msg-10231 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10231,10231#msg-10231 I know there are some other threads where I can gather some good information along these lines, and I fully intend to read through them, but given the fact that my time in the area is going to be relatively short I thought it might be worth asking for some pretty specific input. I am bringing my mother up to the area to enjoy the foliage, arriving in Albany the afternoon of 10/13 and then heading to our base for the trip, the Wyndham Bentley Brook outside of Hancock, MA. We really only have two full days to explore, the 14th and 15th and while my mom gets around pretty well, we won't be doing any hiking or anything like that. My initial thoughts are to do some of the scenic drives in western MA, while trying to sneak up to VT and NH for a bit on Wednesday; then possibly go down into CT on Thursday and take a ride on the Essex Steam Train/Becky Thatcher Riverboat, enjoying the scenery along the way.

I would really like to make the most of the time we have there. And I think my mom would enjoy visiting several states that she has never been to, in addition to taking in the scenery. I would really appreciate any thoughts you might have on these plans, and welcome alternatives.

Thanks,
Randy (from TX)]]> raharris Yankee Foliage Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:00:11 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10223,10223#msg-10223 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10223,10223#msg-10223

Thanks!]]> Stacy Yankee Foliage Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:43:27 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10168,10168#msg-10168 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10168,10168#msg-10168
Thanks,
Jimmy Caputo]]> send4jimmy Yankee Foliage Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:43:54 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10151,10151#msg-10151 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10151,10151#msg-10151
Grist Mill at Babcock State Park


Wine Cellar Park and Anderson Lake is a great place for fall tree reflections


Sunrise at Dolly Sods


Spruce Knob Early Morning Fall Sunrise


Cheat Mountain Fall Foliage


Bear Rocks Fall Foliage Mountain View


Sunrise Bear Rocks


Father and Son on top of North Fork Mountain


Almost Heaven High Point North Fork Mountain


Cheat River below Cheat Mountain


Deep in the Seneca Creek Forest


Seneca Creek Waterfall


Let me know if you want to know how to get to these places.

Some of them are not easy to get to and take several hours to reach, but those are the best places.

Let me know if you like these photos.]]> forestwander Yankee Foliage Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:29:02 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10130,10130#msg-10130 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10130,10130#msg-10130
My husband and I are traveling to New England to view the spectacular fall foliage, around Columbus day weekend. We are flying in to Boston airport late night of Oct 8th, and planning to rent a car and drive around NH/VT/Maine starting Oct 9th. We are already so excited about this trip, more so as this is our first visit to New England! I've been trying to do some research, reading the posts and come up with some sort of itinerary, but everyone seems to have different itineraries and there are so many beautiful places that I am just not able to pick up a few for our 4 day trip, based on peak foliage at the time. Our interests are scenic drives, gorgeous views/vistas, see a moose or two, maybe visit an orchard..anything and everything that would make this trip a wonderful and memorable Fall experience. We both like taking photos, so any specific suggestions on that would be very welcome too. We are yet to book our place of stay, basically waiting to draft and finalize the itinerary before booking but am afraid it is already too late.. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!]]> mira Yankee Foliage Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:00:16 -0500 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10123,10123#msg-10123 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10123,10123#msg-10123 azimm85 Yankee Foliage Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:10:21 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10112,10112#msg-10112 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10112,10112#msg-10112 We will be arriving at Boston airport on 28th of Sept and leaving on the 15th of Oct.
Although I have studied this and other travel-boards extensively, we are still hoping to find
out about some Must-Do's and Must-See's we still haven't wrote down so far. Also if you
can recommend which road to drive that would be very nice. We are looking forward
to see the foliage, covered bridges, hopefully a moose, antique shops and general stores and
christmas stores.
Beside beautiful b&b's we have booked the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge and a farm in central Vermont.

Any idea will be highly appreciated.

This is the tour:
3 nights in Cambridge, MA (Freedom trail, Tickets for RedSox-game, Harvard University, maybe Duck Tour)
1 night in Hadley, MA (quick side trip for the Big E, which we would love to attend)
scenery-drive from Gloucester to Rockport
1 night in Ogunquit, ME (marginal way)
Kittery, Freeport, Desert of Maine, Stonewall kitchen-store
2 nights in Boothbay Harbor, ME
2 nights in Conway, NH (Kancamagus Highway, drive to the place where "on Golden Pond" was filmed)
2 nights in Rochester, VT (Burlington)
1 night in Taftsville, VT (Woodstock)
1 night still up in the air
2 nights in Thompson, CT (Yankee-Candle-main-store, Sturbridge Village)
Mystic Seaport
2 nights in Newport, RI (the mansions, Cliff Walk, Ocean Drive)
Plimouth Plantation

Anything we can put in?

Thanks in advance
Gabriele]]> Gabriele Yankee Foliage Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:23:07 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10089,10089#msg-10089 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10089,10089#msg-10089
Thanks!

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Stacy]]> Stacy Yankee Foliage Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:30:23 -0500 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10086,10086#msg-10086 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10086,10086#msg-10086 rockymtgirl Yankee Foliage Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:49:32 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10081,10081#msg-10081 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10081,10081#msg-10081 www.northeastfoliage.net]]]> Bill Yankee Foliage Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:57:18 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10050,10050#msg-10050 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10050,10050#msg-10050


To start with Color may be a little early this year. It's hard to get a handle on it but my basis for thinking this is the relative temps in NE are following normal trends and may even be a little on the low side. The thing that you can follow with out even following the forums is follow the weather channel. When you see cold 40s at night being reported and warm during the days then you can assume that the color will start soon after that... It also takes a few other things to happen. Shorter days and the right amount of rainfall versus dry drought like days/weeks.]]> folgerj Yankee Foliage Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:07:15 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10039,10039#msg-10039 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10039,10039#msg-10039 whollenstein Yankee Foliage Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:56:05 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10035,10035#msg-10035 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10035,10035#msg-10035
Thanks!

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Stacy]]> Stacy Yankee Foliage Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:08:10 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10028,10028#msg-10028 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,10028,10028#msg-10028
We'd love any advice that people can give us!

Many thanks,
Lindsey]]> lindseyal Yankee Foliage Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:12:20 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9991,9991#msg-9991 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9991,9991#msg-9991 Barb Yankee Foliage Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:45:39 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9978,9978#msg-9978 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9978,9978#msg-9978 thank you.
irit.]]> iritvira@netvision.net.il Yankee Foliage Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:17:30 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9962,9962#msg-9962 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9962,9962#msg-9962 I bought a couple and gave one to a friend who visiting with us...

I don't think the subscriptions get here as quick as it does on the stands...

Jeff Foliage
the fanatical photographer... :-)
Read it you'll understand]]> folgerj Yankee Foliage Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:27:29 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9958,9958#msg-9958 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9958,9958#msg-9958 Bill Yankee Foliage Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:05:32 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9940,9940#msg-9940 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9940,9940#msg-9940 NS Girl Yankee Foliage Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:59:42 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9933,9933#msg-9933 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9933,9933#msg-9933
My dream is to see the beautiful foliage on a slow, old fashioned steam train ride AND visit Salem during Halloween. From reading all of your comments it looks like peak foliage season is somewhere at the beginning to mid October? However, Halloween is at the end of October. I have a lot of free time but I am low on hotel funds and need to accomplish both during the same visit. Do you have any suggestions for me?


Thank you so much!]]> gmarta Yankee Foliage Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:28:45 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9925,9925#msg-9925 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9925,9925#msg-9925
What toe tappin' tunes do any of you like to listen to while leef peeping? I know there's alot of bluegrass floating around on the East Coast. What do you like? I need to get some new music into my iPod.

Thanks! : )

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Stacy]]> Stacy Yankee Foliage Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:10:55 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9921,9921#msg-9921 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9921,9921#msg-9921 Bill Yankee Foliage Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:32:22 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9911,9911#msg-9911 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9911,9911#msg-9911 What do you suggest?

Tyler & Kathy]]> tylerandkathy Yankee Foliage Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:50:33 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9854,9854#msg-9854 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9854,9854#msg-9854 Oscar Yankee Foliage Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:38:10 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9849,9849#msg-9849 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9849,9849#msg-9849 You can follow them here on Facebook: [www.facebook.com]

And you can catch immediate updates by computer or your phone from Twitter: [twitter.com]

And for the fall foliage aficionado Yankee has a Fall foliage fan page also: [bit.ly]

If you have any questions on how to follow them or what you like about it or don't like. Let me know here. I have a pretty good line up the chain of command...]]> folgerj Yankee Foliage Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:32:05 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9845,9845#msg-9845 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9845,9845#msg-9845
To Participate you just have to register in this forum!
All info is held by Yankee and they will tell me what the winning guessers email address is so I can contact you. You should provide a valid email or I will have no way to contact you.

To play you just post a reply in this thread with your guess and I would appreciate it if you would keep it to one per family. You just need to provide the closest guess to how many miles I have traveled between Sept 25th to Oct 31st.

***********The last two years I hit between 3400-3703.2 miles but if I have a really good year it could go higher or lower if not so good...****************

The prize this year will be a gift wrapped set of 5x7 photo greeting cards that I will select and print for you. If would prefer to have a nautical set versus the fall set we will discuss this once I notify you as the winner.

****************** I just added a second prize!!!***************
Make sure you get your guess in!!! I just purchased A HD DVD titled Fall In New England and I'm including this as a second prize for the next closest guess to my total fall mileage, so get those guess in.
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Big note!!!
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Also all guesses have to be in by the witching hour on Halloween night (midnight 31 Oct) Then on the 1st-2nd OR after I recuperate from Halloween evening I will post in the blog/forum thread the name of the lucky guesser's... If you don't have a good (real) email address for me to get back to you with then be sure to get back here in early Nov so you can see if you won and you can contact me at the email address below...
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Important note!
Yankee magazine has nothing to do with this contest so if you are unhappy about how I run the contest then please take it up with me because they are not legally bound by what I do with the contest.]]> folgerj Yankee Foliage Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:28:23 -0500 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9838,9838#msg-9838 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9838,9838#msg-9838 www.yankeefoliage.com]

Did everyone know that Yankee is now up on Twitter and facebook?
You can now get tons of tips and info from following them on Twitter and/or Facebook.
[twitter.com]
and
[www.facebook.com]

Jeff]]> folgerj Yankee Foliage Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:39:09 -0400 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9805,9805#msg-9805 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/forum/read.php?22,9805,9805#msg-9805 Unfortunately, with predictions of temps in the 70s, maybe 80s this weekend, we figure black flies will be starting. We had almost the last of our parsnips last Thursday. I planted a row of sugar snap peas and other cold hardy veggies last weekend. The spring peepers are loud but a friend just 1/2 north of us says they are just starting in his town. If you don't know what a spring peeper is, google it. There's a website or two with audio so you can hear those little guys make noise that sounds like hundreds of jingle bells.
Happy Spring! My favorite time of the year.]]> Donna Yankee Foliage Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:06:55 -0400