Fall Foliage Check: South Shore/South Coast Massachusetts

We check the foliage so that you know where to go.

You should get out today if you can, because fall foliage in our area is late in her peak.

Many areas are past peak, although there are a hundred factors involved.

I would recommend the more southern versions of both the South Shore and the South Coast.

Our peak doesn't last long.

The elements, like Saturday's windstorm, do not favor the leaf peeping types.

People in SE Massachusetts already have the flatlander disadvantage that leaves us to seek out individual groves, trees, branches and even leaves...

... but we do OK for ourselves.

A nice Sunday foliage drive would not be wasted.

Mattapoisett River, above and below...

We rely heavily on Routes 105, 14, 36, 80, 228, 37, 18, 44, 14, 106, 58, 3A, 79, 140, 6, 28 and innumerable side streets.

Interior regions generally and I repeat generally outdo the coasts until very late in the peak.

Our peak does stretch into November.

You see more played-out trees late in the peak, but you also catch the true peak of many slowpokes.

Foliage and Thanksgiving are the last gasps of summer's shoulder season with tourism, especially on Cape Cod...

...where my people will be going today.

Parts of Cape Cod are just starting to peak, although some spots are past peak.

Like we said, a few days make a great difference in foliage intensity.

But if you want to leaf peep in New England today, we're your best bet. New Hampshire and company are played out like MC Hammer pants.

While we hate to advocate such things, there are few better Bone Rides one can take.

Lighting is key, and this Sunday is living up to her name.

Our staff is very mobile, so we may get around the South Shore/Coast enough for another foliage article, but this is the last one scheduled for the region.

We still have the Cape to do, and I can only do so many captions about leaves.

We can't rule out a greatest hits article, we love site visits and our readers seem to enjoy these articles. It also gives us an Autumn feel.

My favorite tree, it peaks around Halloween.

Enjoy!

Fall Foliage Check: Quincy

Our fall foliage hunt took us to Quincy, MA

I am a foliage chaser. I was a storm chaser, but that's dangerous. You also get really wet.

Quincy, which is relatively urban, isn't the first choice for a town to stalk foliage in. No offense meant to Quincy, I was a Grenwold Road kid for a while, and you can see that I did get an article out of Capital Q.

I will be mostly out of Quincy this season... especially when our coverage area is SE Massachusetts, which has towns like Rehoboth and Duxbury which are pretty much all forest.

However, foliage moves north to south. It has been a warm autumn, the trees are slow to turn, and Quincy is about as far north as the job takes us.

Quincy turns first, making it to our foliage articles what Iowa is to presidential elections.

I wanted to get Grenwold Road, which is lined with trees and looks promising, but it hasn't turned yet.

If you live on Grenwold Road, it may amuse you to know that A) I'll be back, and B) my phone's auto correct keeps changing Grenwold Road into "Teen Wolf Road." 

The sun gets filtered through the leaves, which means that I can use the same tree twice.

I am also a more determined photographer than a good one, so I try to help myself along with Mr. Sun.

I'm amazed that someone built a house on such a steep hill.

That looks like a pumpkin tree.

This tree was tasked with holding up the sun.