Tag: Autumn (Season)

Please, New Yorkers Beg, Make the Weekend Rain Stop

The group chat had been filled with balloon and champagne emojis for days. At last, Candace Neilsa and five friends who live across New York City had managed to pick a date to have a “girls’ night out.” But when that date, Sept. 29, came, the rain, too, followed — just as it seemingly has […]

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After Devastating Floods, Vermont Is Open and Welcoming Tourists for Fall

On a recent afternoon Susan Allen gazed at a sun-soaked hillside cloaked in a rich autumn palette of red, gold, purple and green. The retiree from Lebanon, Ky., sat licking her lips after savoring a syrup-dipped pickle at the Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks in Montpelier, Vt., a popular stop on central Vermont’s leaf-peeping circuit. “I […]

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Head to East Bay, Rhode Island, for an Idyllic Fall Weekend Getaway

“We’re growing a small business and learning as we go,” said Claire Bowen as she arranged bushels of sweet and charmingly imperfect organic apples on a late-September afternoon. “We hope to cultivate connections between local farms and local tables.” Behind her, rows of brightly hued zinnias and an orchard of 700 apple trees swayed in […]

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High Fall Temperatures to Drop, With Cold and Frost Forecast in Eastern U.S.

Oct. 1 should have been a cool and crisp Sunday in the Twin Cities, the kind in which a temperature reading around the daily average high of 56.7 degrees would have been perfect for finding the right pumpkin to carve or getting lost in a corn maze. Instead, the region sweltered in summerlike temperatures that […]

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5 Hotels Where Fall Takes Center Stage

It’s that time of year when the night air cools, pumpkins appear on doorsteps and apples are ripe for the picking — sure signs that leaf-peeping season is on the horizon. If you’re hoping to spend a weekend marveling at fall foliage but haven’t yet booked a place to stay, the time is now. To […]

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5 Places to See Spectacular Foliage This Fall

Heat domes, droughts, smoky skies, tropical deluges: After a record-breaking summer of extreme weather events, dare we dream of crisp nights, cozy sweaters and the colors of fall? “This summer really was a chaotic mix of record wettest and record driest, and fall colors will reflect that,” said Austin Rempel, director of forest restoration at […]

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