The Autumn Guide — a fall foliage road trip through New England, the Blue Ridge & the Rockies
Fall lasts about three weeks in any given place, and most people miss it — they book the wrong week, sit in the wrong traffic, or never go at all. This is the guide that fixes that.The Autumn Guide is a field guide to the best fall road trips in the country: New England, Southern Appalachia, the Rocky Mountains, and the red rock of Utah in its best season. It's built from years of actually chasing the color out of the back of a truck — not researched from a desk.Most fall guides hand you a list of pretty towns. This one teaches you the thing that actually matters first: peak color isn't a date on the calendar, it's a moving line you chase — north to south, high to low. Learn to read it and you stop missing the window by a week.What's inside: How to Chase Fall — the one skill most people miss, so you catch peak instead of just missing it. Four regions, done right — the Kancamagus, Smugglers' Notch, Acadia and Baxter in the Northeast; the Smokies, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the dirt roads the crowds skip in Southern Appalachia; Glacier, the Tetons, and Colorado's San Juans in the Rockies; and Utah's red rock when the heat finally breaks. My saved Google Maps pins for every region — hikes, diners, overlooks, and free camps that drop straight into your own maps. Out There in Autumn — the seasonal stuff that quietly ends trips: 40° swings, short daylight, first-snow road closures, and why the bears are busy. The gear I'd actually rebuy for cold-weather road trips. Real numbers and real mistakes — where to sleep for free, what the passes cost, and the $600 rear window I smashed racing the sun in Arkansas so you don't have to. 18 pages, no filler. Print-ready PDF, US Letter.This is pay-what-you-want, and you can take it for free. That's on purpose — the mission is getting people out there, not guarding a PDF. If it saves you a blown weekend or a mistake I already made, throw a few bucks at the next tank of gas. Either way, go.Everything I publish stays free because of the people who chip in and the members of Out There Club — the deeper layer, where I write about faith, loss, and finding God in the wilderness and the ordinary. If this guide makes you want to actually go, that's the whole point.From someone who's actually lived it — not just researched it.
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