Explore the scenic beauty of autumn on a fall foliage tour.
A fall foliage tour is a truly relaxing vacation experience. Escorted tours take the hassle out of traveling. Your guide knows just where to go to see the best displays of those red, gold and orange colors and she'll take care of your accommodations and even some of your meals. Though the New England region is perhaps most famous for autumn colors, the southwestern and western U.S. also offer scenic beauty. Several tour operators offer escorted motorcoach, train and boat tours with a focus on fall colors. Does this Spark an idea?
Escorted Trafalgar Tours
Escorted Trafalgar Tours offers an escorted, eight-day Autumn Colors tour. Travel is in an air-conditioned motor coach with an on-board restroom. The tour includes accommodations in first-class hotels, tips and gratuities, 11 meals, airport transfers and the services of a professional tour director. Tours run from mid-September until mid-October. Begin the tour in Boston, then drive up the coast to Maine. Explore Bar Harbor and Acacia National Park before driving through New Hampshire's White Mountains with their colorful forests. Tours of rural Vermont, upstate New York and Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, round out the tour.
Escorted Trafalgar Tours
Atlas Cruises & Tours
9091 North Military Trail
Suite 14
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
800-942-3301
escortedtrafalgartours.com
Mayflower Tours
Mayflower Tours offers five escorted autumn foliage tours throughout the U.S. Tours range from five to eight days and include some meals, accommodations in four-star hotels, admission fees, transportation and round-trip airport transfers. A professional tour manager travels with the tour group. Ride in air-conditioned motor coaches, trains and boats.
Tour options include New England and Cape Cod and foliage-viewing in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island by motor coach. New England Rails and Sails includes scenic rides on trains, ferries and sailboats. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta tours New Mexico's forested canyons. Trains Across Colorado combines scenic rides on four trains across the state. Yosemite, Lake Tahoe and San Francisco includes a variety of urban and wilderness area tours. Autumn foliage tours operate from mid-September through mid-October.
Mayflower Tours
1225 Warren Ave.
Downers Grove, IL 60515
800-323-7604
mayflowertours.com
Globus Journeys
Globus Journeys offers two "America's Historic East" escorted motor coach tours that include fall foliage viewing. The tour begins in Washington D.C. and travels north through Maryland and West Virginia to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, stopping at historical attractions such as Mount Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg, Valley Forge, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.
Fall foliage departures run from mid-September through mid-October and show off the colors at the gardens and grounds of attractions such as Thomas Jefferson's estate at Monticello, the historic park at Valley Forge and Shenandoah National Park. You can choose the eight-day trip or an added two days in Washington D.C. Tours are fully-escorted and include all breakfasts, four dinners, nightly accommodation at deluxe or first-class hotels, transportation and admission fees.
Globus Journeys
5301 South Federal Circle
Littleton, CO 80123
866-755-8581.
globusjourneys.com
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