leaf peeping

It is beginning to look like autumn as the leaves start their changeover to the brilliant colors New England proudly displays to tourists everywhere.

A small New England town was named among the nation’s top seven fall getaway destinations, per Travel and Leisure Magazine. Between the Taconic and Green Mountain Ranges, Manchester, Vermont, offers excellent hiking and leaf-peeping opportunities, the magazine wrote. Located in the southwestern part of the state, fall foliage reaches its peak around mid-October, per the Vermont Foliage Forecaster. There...

A Vermont man is on a journey to document peak fall foliage in the state.

A Vermont man is on an uncommon journey to document his state’s vistas — in between impressive stretches of hiking. “It’s a long walk,” said Rob Mullen of his roughly 270-mile journey through Vermont, from the border of Canada to the border of Massachusetts — the entire length of the Long Trail. Mullen is stopping along the way to preserve…

October starts off beautiful, with sunshine and temperatures in the 70s for much of New England. This is usually the time of year we would be weighing the giant pumpkins at the Topsfield Fair. But this is not a normal year, except for perhaps our weather and fall foliage. We have seasonable temperatures and beautiful trees in most of New…

The nation’s latest drought monitoring data was released Thursday, showing western Vermont as abnormally dry and eastern Vermont in either moderate or severe drought. “It’s very, very dry and very parched where we are,” said Jay Limoge of Shelburne. It’s even drier across most of New England. With the drought conditions coinciding with Vermont’s treasured foliage season, NECN and...

Drought is widespread across New England, and some people are wondering if that may affect how trees change color this fall.