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Peak foliage in the Adirondacks

10/05/2012

Don't wait much longer to see what foliage looks like in peak season.

Sue Cameron from the Lake Placid Convention and Visitors Bureau grabbed this photo on Thursday. It was taken on Route 73 in the Cascade Lakes, just a few miles from Lake Placid.

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Your blogger's neighborhood is showing its true colors

Looking back at the first fairway at the Whiteface Club and Resort on Friday afternoon. How about some fall golf?

NY State Foliage Report

Leaf peeping and Columbus Day weekend go hand in hand, and this year's holiday weekend will offer some of the best foliage viewing opportunities in New York State in years, according to observers for Empire State Development's I LOVE NEW YORK program. 

Peak colors are spreading from the Adirondacks to the Catskills, the Chautauqua-Allegheny and Central New York regions, with near-peak and midpoint color in many other areas.
Bright, beautiful peak colors continue to spread across the Adirondacks. 

In Essex County, in the High Peaks region around Lake Placid as well as the Keene and Keene Valley areas, foliage will be peak this weekend with some of the most magnificent fall colors in recent memory. Look for amazing shades of red, along with additional hues of gold, burgundy and yellow. 

In the area surrounding Whiteface Mountain, color spotters expect 75 percent color transition and peak foliage by the weekend. The reds are spectacular this year, with oranges, burgundies and all shades in between dotting the hillsides. 

The Schroon Lake area is near peak. Leaf droppage is minimal and the color has gone from muted to bright. Look for shades of red and orange. 

The Bloomingdale area reports reds, golds, ambers and purples among their peak shades, all contrasting nicely with the evergreens.

Foliage spotters in Franklin County reporting from Saranac Lake expect 90 to nearly 100 percent color transition by the weekend. "Magnificent," "Startling and "Incredible" are just some of the ways area spotters are describing the leaves this week. 

The Lake Clear and Paul Smiths areas are sporting every color in the spectrum, but particularly noteworthy are the oranges and yellows of the sugar maples and the bright reds of the red maples and high bush cranberries.
 
  Kiwassa Lake spotters note leaves of pink, gold, red, dark red, maroon, orange and yellow. Look for 95 percent color change and a brilliant display of yellow, copper, pumpkin, burgundy and shades of adobe red in the Mt. Arab/Tupper Lake area, where leaf peeping continues to be sensational.
 
In Herkimer County, Old Forge leaf peepers report nearly 100 percent leaf transition and some of the brightest and boldest color in years contrasting nicely with the evergreens. The stage of change is just a little past peak, but there's still some great foliage viewing there this weekend. 

In the Adirondacks area of St. Lawrence County, expect peak conditions from Pitcairn to Piercefield, with an average mix of orange, yellow and red leaves.