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Gold and green cover the dramatic cliffs of South Dakota's Spearfish Canyon.

Enjoy spectacular fall color at Brown County State Park.

Sunset bathes a Kansas wheat field with a golden glow.

Leaves glow in fall colors on a tree branch in Keosauqua, Iowa.

Nottawa Creek, part of Michigan's first Heritage Water Trail, reflects autumn colors.

A wheelbarrow of painted pumpkins, gourds, leaves and bittersweet vines offers a warm Midwest welcome to guests.

Mississippi River views unfold from bluff-top trails in Iowa's Pikes Peak State Park.

Designs etched on pumpkins painted black create a bewitching fall display.

Fall colors spread across Michigan's Porcupine Mountains State Park.

Read about our favorite Midwest state parks

Polka dots create a two-tone or multicolor design with season-long appeal.

Mount Baldhead offers a scenic overlook of autumn foliage in Saugatuck, Michigan.

Bond Falls, one of dozens of waterfalls in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, tumbles through a forest of fall colors.

Red- and orange-tinted leaves frame a cluster of grapes at Lemon Creek Winery near Berrien Springs, Michigan.

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Two fall favorites combine into a bursting-with-mums flower arrangement.

Benetka Road Covered Bridge, built about 1900 and renovated in 1985, spans the Ashtabula River. It's one of 17 historic and reconstructed bridges in northeast Ohio's Ashtabula County.

Thanks to the insulating effects of the Great Lakes, the color show in the fields and woods of northern Michigan often starts in late September and stretches into late October.

Read about a fall escape to the Mackinac Island area

Fall leaves pinned to a clothesline make a simple autumn decoration.

Woods are just starting to show fall colors around a Presque Isle River waterfall in Michigan's Porcupine Mountains State Park.

Leaves scatter across the pebbly beach at Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in northeast Minnesota.

Sunlight sparkles on the Des Moines River near Bonaparte, Iowa.

Soft light highlights these leaves at the Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park in Mackinaw City, Michigan.

A necklace of fall color rings Lake of the Clouds in Michigan's Porcupine Mountains State Park.

Water, trees in fall colors and cliffs line the Primrose Trail at Illinois' Apple River Canyon State Park.

This wreath reflects fall's hues with pinecones; colored leaves; red, yellow and orange mums; and yellow seeds.

Golden sunlight gives a barn near Cross Village, Michigan, an enchanting look.

Jackson Park overlooks the Missouri River as it winds through Atchison, Kansas.

The bright orange 'Ben Huston' dahlia is one of thousands of beautiful varieties of this fall flower.