elkhornsun wrote:
I would be looking at Yellowstone or Yosemite in the western USA for the fall. Alaska is going to be gray and grayer and much shorter days in terms of real daylight. With Yosemite you can fly into San Jose or SFO or Sacramento airport.
There is also some nice country in north western Oregon south of Portland with waterfalls and fall colors and there may still be leaves on the grape vines in the Willamette valley. With Portland and Astoria you have the Oregon coast and beach scenes.
Fall in Yosemite is more of a November thing. That's when color comes to the Valley and the Sierra foothills.
The first few weeks of October constitute aspen color season in the Sierra Nevada, but Yosemite is far from a hot spot for that. There are some aspens in the park, but the far better displays are on the east side of the Sierra, roughly up and down US 395 and along routes into the range from there.
