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Peeping Scarlet Maples on a Gravel Road in Virginia
While Shenandoah National Park bears the brunt of leaf-peeping Washingtonians, George Washington National Forest (just a few miles west) offers comparatively empty trails, camp sites, and backcountry roads. Instead of joining the bumper-to-bumper traffic of Skyline Drive, drive instead to Edinburgh Gap Road, which will lead you across the north fork of the Shenandoah River, up to Massanutten Mountain, into King’s Crossing, and then down Fort Valley Road, which snakes through folded ridges and alongside creeks. Here in this 350-mile swath of hardwood trees, the beeches are just as yellow-orange, the dogwoods the same vivid purple, and the oaks and maples as brilliantly red.
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