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America's Best Fall Color Drives
Oleksandr Buzko / Alamy
Eastern Sierras, CA
The Route: 125 miles.
Foliage Update: http://www.monocounty.org/docs/FallColorGuide.pdf
Head to California for blinding displays of yellow and orange aspens, golden willows, and crimson cottonwoods amid sapphire alpine lakes, gushing waterfalls, and snow-frosted 12,000-foot-high mountain peaks. Start in Coleville to Lundy Lake, and then continue on to the June Lake Loop and Mono Lake. Go through Mammoth Lakes where orange streaks the mountainside, and finally to Rock Creek Canyon.
Where to Stop: Take a short hike for a view of Lundy Canyon Falls plunging down hundreds of feet; visit the West’s largest unrestored ghost town, Bodie, in the Basin Range; and don’t miss the he-man Cowboy Steak Sandwich at the unusual Whoa Nellie Deli located inside the Tioga Gas Mart in Lee Vining.
