Autumn landscape in the suburbs of New York in 2010

Bear Mountain State Park is located on the west side of the Hudson River in Orange and Rockland counties of New York.
Fort Montgomery is adjacent to the north edge of the park while Iona Island Bird Sanctuary is on the eastern edge in the Hudson River.
The park is separate from the adjacent Harriman State Park which runs along the western edge of the park.

The following information was offered by Mr. MIMA Hisamichi living in Tokyo.

"In the end of October, we hiked the Bear Mountain in the suburbs of New York, a corner of Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and fully enjoyed the forest of red and yellow colored leaves. The forest was mainly composed of sugar maple, and included red maple, oak, and American beech."

Scenery of the forest coming into eyes after driving from Manhattan for about 15 minutes

The forest of this area is mainly composed of oak trees, and also included elm, maple and other bush.

Let's start the trekking of Bear Mountain.

Colored leaves were vivid and clear against the blue sky when looking up at the forest.

Forest of sugar maple

Such yellow world continues from now on.

Forest of sugar Maple, Yellowish-brown or reddish leaves were also seen.

The yellow world continues still more.

Red gradually increased.
Carpet is composed of red, orange yellow.

The colorful carpet was as if it were "a primary color picture".

You would find two pieces of leaves of red maple in this picture, and the leaves are serrated around them and are scarlet red.
Both many pieces of yellow leaf, and six pieces of leaf, which is thick reddish leaf with the luster, are the leaves of sugar maple.
In addition, the yellowish brown leaves are also included, such as American beech.

Finally let me show you the fine views from the heights.

The forest which shines in gold and spreads out to every direction is about 40 minutes from the New York city by car.
The Hudson river is seen.

Bear Mountain was the mixed forest composed of the following trees. Predominately many sugar maple and some red maple were seen on the hill or hillside, and oak (maybe White oak) was seen on the lower part, and American beech was seen along the valley. The forest has very few tree species and few bush. When climbing to the ridge, there was no maple there, and we found the dry forest was composed of mainly oak, some azaleas and mountain laurel.

It was a magnificent autumn landscape in the United States.

The followings are the scenery of the autumn colors of Arlington National Cemetery of Washington.
The following information was also offered by Mr. MIMA.

An autumn color of the sugar maple (Acer saccharum).

The red big maple of this side is a Red maple (Acer rubrum).

Except the tree of the left edge, most seem to be sugar maples.
The tree of the left edge seems to be a red maple or a Freeman Maple.

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