Fall foliage is marquee for the Whites, Kancamagus, the Notches, and Lakes Region
— — the two weeks the whole state turns to copper and rose.
Not only on a wall.
“The marquee window is late September through mid-October. The Kancamagus Highway runs thirty-four miles between Lincoln and Conway under sugar maple, beech, and birch. North of it, Franconia and Crawford Notches hold the steeper light. South, the Lakes Region opens around Winnipesaukee, where the colour reaches the water a week later. The peak moves down the elevation, not the calendar. from the studio
Fall foliage is marquee for the Whites, Kancamagus, the Notches, and Lakes Region, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
The fall corridor runs across the White Mountain National Forest, which covers about 800,000 acres in northern New Hampshire and a small slice of western Maine. The Kancamagus Highway, New Hampshire Route 112, runs 34.5 miles between Lincoln and Conway and crosses the 2,855-foot Kancamagus Pass. Franconia Notch carries Interstate 93 past Cannon Mountain and Echo Lake. Crawford Notch holds U.S. Route 302 below Mount Washington. South of the range, the Lakes Region opens around Lake Winnipesaukee, the largest lake in the state at seventy-two square miles.
Peak colour in northern New Hampshire usually arrives in the last week of September at higher elevations and works downhill through the second week of October. Sugar maple drives the reds and oranges, paper birch the yellows, American beech the late copper. A cold night followed by a clear day deepens the anthocyanins that produce the strongest reds. The Lakes Region peaks roughly seven to ten days after the high country. The state's foliage tracker has run weekly maps since the 1980s.
The palette is set by the species mix. Sugar maple, the state tree, dominates the lower slopes and gives the orange-red core of the show. Red maple turns earlier and runs scarlet. Yellow birch and white birch line the streams. American beech holds a long bronze that lasts into November. At the higher Kancamagus pull-offs you also see balsam fir and red spruce holding green, so the maples read against a dark conifer ground, which is why the photographs from this corridor look the way they do.