Every fall, visitors seeking out fall colors throng to hot spots like the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the Berkshires in Massachusetts.
According to Prof. William Keeton, a forest ecosystem scientist at the University of Vermont, the region's diverse array of trees including beech, birch, maple and oak produces a wide variety of colors when the leaves begin to change.
Stunning autumn colors don't belong to any one region: Picture the deep orange dogwood trees of the Pacific Northwest, the golden shimmer of the aspens in Colorado and the rusty red of swamp chestnut oak in West Virginia.
The New River Gorge National Park & Preserve in southern West Virginia offers more than 70,000 acres of public lands that burst into shades of red, orange and yellow during its peak autumn foliage.
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