An interactive map, created by David Angotti, is predicting when leaves will change color across the United States this upcoming fall.
David Angotti, the map’s creator, crafted the websiteas a way for travelers to find the"perfect smokey mountains cabin," and he added the annual fall leaf map as a tool to make the most of those trips.
Revamped annually, the 2023 version of the map is now ready and highlights when the changing leaves will move across the country, which can be seen by dragging a tool across a timeline from Sept. 4 to Nov. 20. According to the map, fall foliage on the West Coast should start by mid-September, before the Midwest will see color start to peak in October. The East Coast should then peak around early October, while the Southeast will start to see the same by mid-to-late October.
“After publishing our predictive fall foliage map for nearly a decade, we are confident in our data sources, process and algorithm,” founder Angotti said in a statement to