Last week we gave you an overview of fall foliage areas that are close by where you live. Today, let’s get more specific about one area.
That is the Bear Paw Mountains, a Mecca for fall foliage.
First as to timing, it is everything. I have gone over Marias Pass to behold the most beautiful fall foliage ever, then come back through the next day only to find it all gone. A frost and a wind can take the foliage away in a few hours.
As a rule but not hard and fast, around the first of October the foliage is thought to be prime in the Bear Paw Mountains. And yet I have found it getting a little lat...