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The Kancamagus Highway, the Mohawk Trail — the specific routes, exact peak-timing windows, and roads worth the drive across all six New England states
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New England's fall color moves through the region on a schedule, not all at once, arriving first in northern Vermont's Northeast Kingdom in late September and reaching Connecticut's Litchfield Hills by early November, a roughly six-week window across which the region's best driving routes each hit their specific peak at a different time.
This list ranks the routes worth building an actual trip around, with the specific timing that separates a drive taken at the right moment from one taken a week too early or too late.
