Smoky Mountain Fall Foliage 2025. The 2024 fall foliage map is the ultimate visual planning guide to the annual progressive changing of the leaves. Meanwhile, here are five of the very best trails in the park for surveying the mountains’ tremendous fall.

Fall foliage is most vibrant when temperatures are in the 70s during the day and drop into the 40s at night. Why do leaves change colors in the fall?