Vegetation Sure, leaf-peeping is a classic autumn activity. Pike and muskie are still biting in the Great White North, so try casting your line. Go beyond maple leaves and into the unusual this fall with these off-beat outdoor adventures.
Fall winds bring migrating hawks, following updrafts along mountain ridges and coastlines.
Here's how to find and identify migrating raptors. Prairie Magenta - Nebraska, South Dakota, and other tallgrass prairie states offer asters, prairie gentians, and grasses turning from magenta to rust. Gators and Wildflowers in the Bayou - In Louisiana, the reptiles are livelyin' up for fall, the bur marigold and asters are puttin' on a show. In Washington's Glacier Peaks Wilderness, russet berries and golden ferns turn the mountains ablaze. Rocks, Pike and Muskie - The pike and muskie are still biting as autumn turns at Ontario's Rough Rock Lake.