Fall Foliage 2019 Great Smoky Mountains Predictions
The fall foliage 2019 Great Smoky Mountains predictions are in for this year’s annual show of fall colors. A warm summer and a warm September should result in a colorful fall foliage season. Current drought conditions should not have too big of an impact. The biologists and fall color experts are predicting a good fall season for this upcoming fall foliage show. During September sunny days and cool nights make the perfect recipe. We had sunny days but not many cool nights. A cold front is in the forecast for the first weekend of October. Hopefully when the cooler temperatures arrive the fall foliage season will speed up.
Great Smoky Mountains Fall Foliage 2019
The first official day of autumn was Monday, September 23. Although the weather is still quite warm there are some fall foliage color changes taking place already. The dogwood trees have some color changes visible. The start of the fall foliage color changes begins in the highest elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains typically toward the end of September. There is some hint of color just starting to appear in the mountain ash, beech, and birch trees. Also, there is a hint of some red showing in the sugar and mountain maples, sourwoods, sassafras, and black birch. Tulip poplar trees are also turning yellow now. In the next 10 days or so the fall foliage colors really begin to show up in the elevations above 5,000 feet. These areas include Clingmans Dome, Mt. LeConte, Cataloochee and along Newfound Gap Road.
Fall foliage reports and updates for the Great Smoky Mountains will start soon here at Great Smoky Mountains Guide. We hope our reports will help you know when to go and where to go to see those beautiful fall foliage colors in the Tennessee and North Carolina mountains. Check back often for our weekly reports. There is a lot of information on our Fall Foliage page about the fall foliage season: maps with typical peak dates, locations that peak first, elevation information, and popular place to go as well as less crowded places to view fall foliage. We include areas in the Great Smoky Mountains that are in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Fall Foliage From the Great Smoky Mountains
