Find Fall Flavored Foliage in NYC Forests – 30 Treed Areas to Explore

As Fall gives way to Winter, so do the last vestiges of life and warmth.  The sun disappears earlier and earlier, skirts and t-shirts become pants and pea coats.  Smiles turn upside down and the morning wind outside your window bellows in an icy shriek – “staaaay hooooOOoooome…”. 

 

In the final week or two of this transition, trees, which for month’s offered shade from the heat and a smidge of green on an otherwise grey concrete canvas are saving their energy for the winter and allowing their leaves to die and fall off. In this transition lies both an homage to death and yet a thing of beauty.  And while it is harder to find iconic patches of gold, red and orange, the NYTimes has been kind enough to give us 30 places to satisfy Leaf Peepers hoping to keep it local (click for their full article).