25 fall foliage adventures that are big on color and light on crowds
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Photograph by Jason Penland; Photograph by Tommy White; map courtesy of Howard Neufeld and Michael Denslow; (Roan Mountain) by Mark VanDyke; (biking) courtesy of Beech Mountain Resort; (Looking Glass Rock) Shutterstock/Jill Lang; (Black Balsam) shutterstock/Anthony Heflin; (deck) courtesy of Pisgah Inn; (biscuit) Shutterstock/ButtermilkgirlVirginia; Photographs courtesy of (Newfound Gap Road) Shutterstock/Larry Knupp; (Mount Mitchell) NC Division of Parks and Recreation; (Clingman’s Dome) Shutterstock/Jason Sponseller; (horses) Cataloochee Ranch; (Tanawha Trail) Shutterstock/Craig Zerbe; (Grandfather Mountain) Shutterstock/Menn Ooyen; (Linn Cove Viaduct) Shutterstock/Pierre Leclerc; (Price Lake) Shutterstock/TheBigMK; (railroad) courtesy of Great Smoky Mountains Railroad; (Hot Springs) by Caitlin Ragan; (Max Patch) by Tommy White; (Molley Chomper Cidery) by Revival Photography; (Virginia Creeper Trail) Shutterstock/digidreamgrafix; (Grayson Highlands) Shutterstock/Mary Terriberry; (Sandburg home) National Park Service, Victoria Stauffenberg; (Owl) WNC Nature Center; (Apple Hill Farm) Bryce Alberghini; (family) courtesy of the Orchard at Altapass; (Dry Falls) Shutterstock/Dave Allen Photography; (Cullasaja Falls) Shutterstock/Jay L.; courtesy of John C. Campbell Folk School; (aerial view) by Jack Daulton; (falls) courtesy of Chimney Rock State Park; (Land rover) courtesy of the Biltmore Company; (winery) by Ben Hermann