You can check it out at fallcolorguide.org. You know, all these beautiful trees, where's the best place to find these trees? Like, if one doesn't live in western North Carolina, and we just need to go for a drive.

Yeah.

So if you wanna go for a drive and see some great color, you have to get up a little in elevation because then you get the mix of trees that give you the reds contrasting with the orange and the yellows.

It tends to be a lot more orange and yellow in the Piedmont, um, and you have less of the red unless they're the urban trees that have been planted for that, like the maples.

Um, but if you want to s- see the, uh, take a drive and see the best colors, of course, the Blue Ridge Parkway is the place to visit, and it runs for over 460 miles from the Virginia border all the way down to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

And all but an 11-mile stretch of it is now open for fall color viewing.

The only part that's still closed is, um, the part just north of Mount Mitchell State Park, about 11 miles north of that on the parkway.

Well, fall leaf peeping is big business, you know, for western North Carolina, and I know when Helene hit two years ago, it was just before peak fall tourism time, right? So have the businesses you know, uh, you know, that really depend on fall foliage tourism, have they recovered since then?