BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. — Saturday afternoon will usher in the first really cool weather of the fall season and with that comes the opportunity to finally see the leaves changing in north Georgia.
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Channel 2 anchor Linda Stouffer took a trip to Red Top Mountain in Cartersville, a place she says is a true hidden gem for finding colorful fall leaves in the state.
Stouffer met the Madison family who were visiting the park. They came up from Florida.
“There’s no better feeling when you walk outside and feel the fall air,” the Madison’s said. “You come here and it’s just absolutely beautiful. You feel one on one with nature.”
The great 2021 “Leaf Watch” is on. The fall peak is expected to start near the end of October and run through the first part of November.
Stouffer took a walk around Red Top Mountain with Kim Hatcher who works for Georgia State Parks. Hatcher is known as the “Leaf Lady”. She said pictures of the changing colors are beginning to trickle from the state’s higher elevations like Vogel State Park in Blairsville.
“We think we’re on track for a beautiful fall coming later in October and into November,” Hatcher said. “What we need is some warm sunny day’s and cool nights to really make the color pop.”
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Georgia State Parks has a map of the top ten most popular parks to check out. They range from Amicalola to Vogel and Franklin Delano Roosevelt near Columbus along with a cluster of locations in the north Georgia mountains.
“Northeast Georgia typically is what changes first,” Hatcher said. “I would tell people to go to Black Rock Mountain because it’s the highest elevation state park that we have here in Georgia.”
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Stouffer said her favorite parks are Fort Mountain in Chatsworth and Cloudland Canyon in the northwest corner of the state.
For a full list of where to find fall leaves in Georgia’s state parks, you can go to the state’s “Leaf Watch” website.
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