Fall officially begins this Sunday, Sept. 22, and the foliage is transforming around the state to welcome the season. I LOVE NY, the state’s tourism website, published their predictions for where to find the best sneak peek of autumn leaves during the week of Sept. 18-24, 2024.

Now there is a new tool to track what the best spots are for leaf-peeping each week. The weekly report is compiled by volunteer observers for the Empire State Division of Tourism's "I 💗 NY" program.

The biggest drop of the season has just happened — the first fall foliage report for New York state has been released. With the official start to fall rapidly approaching on Sept. 22, leaves around Upstate New York have already started to change to their festive colors after one of the hottest summers on record.

T he debate of when fall really starts is as divisive as pumpkin spice. While some rush enthusiastically into the cashmere-clothed arms of autumn before the autumnal equinox, ther

According to Explore Fall, leaves will start showing “low color” in the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains on Sept. 13. Upstate’s fall foliage season is expected to hit its colorful peak in mid-October and end by Nov. 10, when all but a few lucky waterfront towns warmed by Lake Erie in southern Western New York will be past peak.

The first fall foliage report of the season was released on Wednesday. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry has declared the officially start of the 2024 foliage season. Here is the first report: We are still working our way through the first half of September,