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A fall trail in Shenandoah

I took a walk on a fall trail in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, in October 2025, up near Hawksbill. The path was soft dirt covered in leaves, curving off through bare gray trunks and trees that were turning yellow, orange, and brown. It was around noon, about 58 under an overcast sky, with a steady breeze around 13 miles an hour.

There was green grass along the edges, a small sign post off to the right, and nobody else on the trail at that moment. A lot of the branches up there were already bare.