Blue Ridge Parkway visitors will not be disappointed when looking for fall color in 2025. The color is at or near its peak around the Linn Cove Viaduct area below Grandfather Mountain, with good color in the Boone and Blowing Rock area including Moses Cone and Julian Price parks.Â
Angela Posada and Michael Reynolds of Nashville, Tenn., soak in the views of fall color from the Tanawa Trail at Rough Ridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Daniel Smith enjoys the surrounding fall color below Grandfather Mountain at Rough Ridge along the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. The fall color is near or at its peak in this area.
Blue Ridge Parkway visitors take in the last moments of light from an outcropping at Rough Ridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. Fall color is near or at its peak in the area.
Appalachian State students pose for photos at sunset from an outcropping on Rough Ridge along the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Blue Ridge Parkway visitors take in the fall color from Rough Ridge on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Chad Blevins guides his horses Duke and Don, on a carriage ride with patrons on the carriage trails at Moses Cone Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. Blevins said he offers three two-hour carriage rides a day through his company Carriage Run in Blowing Rock. Rides start at Bass Lake, wind up the trails to Flat Top Manor and back down to the lake.
Salem Hudson of Banner Elk, takes a photo of Gina Serena Hare of Florida (left) and her niece, Serena Zea of Charleston against a backdrop of fall color at Flat Top Manor on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
A couple rides horses on the carriage trails of Moses Cone Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Weiyue Kong, a student an Virginia Tech, takes a photo atop a rock outcropping at the Raven Rocks Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Sarah Halverson of Denver, Colo. and Tara Asgerpoor of Hickory take in the fall color from the Grandview Overlook near Boone on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
A line of motorists pass through a stretch of fall color on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Blowing Rock on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Maple leaves glow red against a clear blue sky at the Grandview Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Wild grape vines glow yellow as they are backlit growing along Price Lake on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
A motorist drives through a sea of fall color on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Blowing Rock on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Trees on the banks of Price Lake on the Blue Ridge Parkway are sporting near peak fall color on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Even the poison ivy leaves are changing color along the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Motorist drive through a sea of fall color along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Blowing Rock on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
After taking a photo for themselves, Sarah Halverson of Denver, Colo. (left) and Tara Asgerpoor of Hickory pose for a photo inside the cavern of a giant tulip poplar tree at the Grandview Overlook near Boone on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
The ridges below Grandfather Mountain glow red, orange and yellow in the Golden Hour sun as seen from Bolder Field Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Angela Posada and Michael Reynolds of Nashville, Tenn., take a selfie from a rock outcropping along the Tanawa Trail at Rough Ridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. The fall color is near or at its peak in this area.
A Blue Ridge Parkway visitor stops for a photo of fall color at Price Lake on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Fall color is at or near peak along the Blue Ridge Parkway at the Linn Cove Viaduct on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
The Blue Ridge Mountains turn gold in the setting sun as seen from Rough Ridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Lawson Harkey (from left) Zola Sigmon and Cooper Houser, all of Lincolnton, look down at the fall color in the upper Yadkin Valley along the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
A motorist passes through a stretch of fall color on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Blowing Rock on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
The view of the upper Yadkin River valley is beginning to get some fall color but is still a week or two from peak as seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Sourwood leaves glow red against a backdrop of rhododendron on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Serena Zea of Charleston takes a photo for Salem Hudson of Banner Elk against a backdrop of fall color at Flat Top Manor on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
A rock outcropping glows in golden hour light against a backdrop of fall color at Rough Ridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
A Blue Ridge Parkway sign on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
The estimated $1.7 billion in damages to the parkway was the "largest disaster" in the history of the National Park Service.
