By Emmett Lindner Like so many other leaf-peeping enthusiasts, Tim Yates ventured out to Virginia’s Smith Mountain Lake State Park late this summer to see the early whispers of the fall foliage ...

Related: This Interactive Map Shows When Fall Foliage Will Peak Across the U.S. in 2024 Situated in the western region of the park, almost equally between Long Lake and Indian Lake, Blue Mountain ...

Fall road trippers ... Adirondacks near Saranac Lake, New York. With a month until the official start of autumn, leaf peepers are already eagerly plotting their fall foliage trips with fingers ...

Rather than looking at fall foliage while sitting ... hikes outside Breckenridge, mountain bike tours, rocking climbing trips, or paddle-boarding adventures on Lake Dillon.

SMITH MOUNTAIN ... fall during their inspections was a small amount of hydrilla, which is an invasive plant and probably the one that caused the most problem back in the early 2000s here at the lake.