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Fall Colors and National Parks
Leaf Peeping is a common reason for traveling to the National Parks during Fall. The colors of Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah explode in reds, yellows and oranges. The aspens of the Rocky Mountains cover the mountains is a brilliant golden yellow glow.
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.