The Fall Foliage Map Shows The Best Leaf Peeping Places In New York For 2025

Do you love checking out leaves in the fall?  If you're the kind of person who loves a fall road trip to see them, this map is perfect for you.

They call them "Leaf Peepers." They're people who just love to travel around to see the changing colors of the leaves in the fall. It's huge for tourism, and has become a major boost to some local economies. Leaf peepers love to pack their SUVs up and travel to quaint little towns to take pictures and try the local version of a pumpkin-spiced latte.

The Fall Foliage Map is back

If that kind of trip is right up your alley, you're going to want this map. It's called a "Fall Foliage Map" and it's huge for people who love checking out the leaves. For the last 11 years, a website called SmokyMountains.com has created these maps for you to see for free. The coolest part is that it predicts when the leaves will be showing off their peak fall colors. In turn, you will also know when they're past the point of beauty and will just have dried-up leaves on the ground instead. So if you're planning a trip, you can adjust your itinerary to catch them while they're still pretty.

The colors should be peaking soon

It feels like fall is just getting started, but they're predicting a cooler, drier fall and believe that this could force the leaves to peak earlier in the northeast. They even think regions like northern New England, the Adirondacks, and the Poconos could reach peak color as early as late September to early October.

How can you find the map?

We've got it for you right here.  Once again, thank you to the rental site SmokyMountains.com for providing it.