Fall at Its Finest: Great Leaves – Great Weather - in the Great Smoky Mountains!

With winter right around the corner, the Great Smoky Mountains could not be any nicer! Though the leaves are past peak color, there is still some fantastic color around the Tennessee Smokies however; it is just about all gone in North Carolina.

All of the pictures here in this article were taken in the last 24 hours around the Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge area of the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains. As you can see, the colors are bright and vivid and lots of the leaves are still on the trees even though most elsewhere around the country they are down on the ground already.

Some of the best places to see the fall color are still around the Foothills Parkway, some sections of Newfound Gap Road in the Great Smoky Mountains national park, much of Wears Valley, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and Sevierville Tennessee.

Some of the darker hollows and very high elevations in the Smokies have lost their color, but in places such as the Dollywood Theme Park and around the Parkway in Pigeon Forge, some of the trees have not even peaked in fall colors yet.

To make a trip to Dollywood even better on its 25th anniversary, right now even though it is in the upper 60s right now in Dollywood, the Smoky Mountains Christmas celebration is going on at Dollywood and there are plenty of discount tickets to go around!

Winterfest with its millions of holiday lights all throughout Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and Sevierville kicked off earlier this week. With all the lights and beautiful decorations around the Smokies it will be hard to not be in the holiday and Christmas mood, and the outlet malls in the Smoky Mountains are offering deals you can't pass up on the perfect Christmas gift.

Fall season also means apples and this has been a record-breaking year for the apple crop in the Great Smoky Mountains. The apple crop has been so good some farmer had to prop up their tree limbs in order to keep them from breaking under the weight of those delicious fall goodies! Applewood in Pigeon Forge and Carvers in Cosby are the best places to buy our local delicacy.

This apple season started about 2 weeks early this fall and there are still plenty left to harvest. Even though many plants bloomed early this year, the leaves on the tress are staying far longer than last year even though the weather has been usually warm and dry for fall, which is just fantastic to hike, bike, fish or motor your way around the Smokies.

So if you never came to the Smokies to enjoy the fall color, now is the time to come to the Great Smoky Mountains as the colors are great, the holiday decorations are awesome, the traffic is light and cabin rental rates are far lower than they were just a few days ago. There are still a few One Bedroom and Two Bedroom cabins left for Thanksgiving, but they are going fast so act now.

...and don't forget, if you rent a cabin you can get very discounted tickets for Dollywood which is just amazing this time of the year! So what are you waiting for? Take advantage of the great weather, low cabin rental prices and great fall color and reserve your dream cabin today!