Fall Travel

Boston in October is about as good as a city weekend gets in the US. The air turns crisp, the trees along the Back Bay streets go orange, and everyone suddenly owns a quarter-zip. If it’s your first trip, you’ll probably want the Freedom Trail and the North End, and you should. This plan is

New York in the fall is great, until you realise everyone else is having a great time in it too. The good news is that some of the best autumn scenery in the country starts about an hour from Grand Central. Here are eight weekend trips from the city, roughly in order of how far

When people say “fall in New York” they usually mean Central Park. Lovely, sure. But drive a couple of hours north and the state turns into something else entirely: millions of acres of forest, gorges with waterfalls stacked inside them, and lakes that reflect all of it back. Upstate gets less attention than Vermont, and

Fall in New England lasts about five weeks, and for those five weeks it’s probably the most photographed landscape in the country. The maples turn, the white churches look like they were placed there by a film crew, and every farm stand piles up pumpkins. The trick is that colour moves. It starts in northern

Charleston has a summer problem. July and August are hot in a way that makes you rethink walking anywhere, the air feels like soup and the afternoon thunderstorms arrive on a timetable. Then October happens. Highs drop into the mid-70s, the humidity backs off, and the city becomes what everyone imagines it is: a beautiful

Boston is a good city most of the year. In the fall it’s a great one. The humidity’s gone, the students are back, the trees along the Common turn yellow and red, and the whole place looks like the cover of a college brochure. If you’ve already done the Freedom Trail, this is the list

Salem in October is not a quiet historic town you wander around with a coffee. It’s closer to a month-long festival that happens to be held inside a 400-year-old port. Roughly a million people come through in those four weeks, in a town of about 44,000. Which means it’s brilliant, and it means you have

Asheville in October is the kind of place that makes you check property prices on your phone at a traffic light. The mountains go orange, the air finally cools off, and the whole town smells faintly of woodsmoke and hops. It is also, to be honest, busy. Leaf season is Asheville’s high season and the

Fall foliage is one of those things that looks easy to plan and absolutely is not. The colour moves, it moves fast, and it does not care about the weekend you booked off in August. One year the Adirondacks peak in the last week of September. The next year the same trees are still half