Fall Color Tours
 

We may be taking our family on a trip to enjoy the beautiful colors of Fall and have narrowed our research down to Michigan and New Hampshire. Any recommendations about which of these two regions would offer the best foliage? We'll probably be doing a lot of country road driving.

Thank you.

Tilly Pick

You will probably get more answer if you repost this is the U.S. Forum and tag it for Michigan and New Hampshire. Sorry I can't offer more help.

I'm from Michigan and we do the color tour thing every year. The routes we've found to be the best are M-22 and M-119.

M-22 starts in Manistee which is on the Lake Michigan coastline. You can follow M-22 north along the coast and it brings you back down into Traverse City. This is a very popular route for color tours in Michigan. Part of M-22 runs through Sleeping Bear Dunes which was voted as "America's Most Beautiful Place" on Good Morning America...this is a very cool and scenic area. Traverse City is also a very beautiful town and a great place to spend the night after a day of driving. From there you can continue on US-31 which takes you around the east bay of Grand Traverse bay and north past Torch Lake (which was also voted one of the most beautiful lakes in the US). Keep heading north on 31 and you will go through Charlevoix and Petoskey very nice cities to stop for lunch and go for a walk. After you go through Petoskey look for M-119. M-119 is about 20 miles long and has been nicknamed "the tunnel of trees", this road is a spectacular drive any time of year but is at it's best in the fall months for the color tours.

Hope this helps!

Vermont has the most intense colors. A drive up Rt.100 is a great way to see them at their best.

Thank you, all. Very helpful.

TillPick,

I put my vote in for New Hampshire. The South, Georgia and Tennessee can also have beautiful fall foliage.

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