Favorite Midwest Parks for Fall Color
Whether you're up for a short ramble or a more adventurous outing, we've got ideas throughout the Midwest for parks where you can stretch your legs and enjoy the best of Midwest fall color.
More ideas for parks with great fall color
Midwest Living's Facebook fans also suggested these destinations:
• Backbone State Park, west of Dubuque, Iowa: "Great overlooks and fall color" (pictured).
• Copper Falls State Park in Mellen, Wisconsin: "Dramatic waterfalls and gorges, so fabulous in fall."
• Newton Hills State Park in Canton, South Dakota: "A beautiful park with lots of oaks. Great color!"
• Jubilee State Park near Brimfield, Illinois.
• The Dawes Arboretum in Newark, Ohio: "Beautiful!"
• Central Park in Carthage, Missouri.
• Hartwick Pines State Park near Grayling, Michigan: "40-plus acres of old-growth forest."
• Castle Rock State Park in Oregon, Illinois: "Beautiful in the fall."
• Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Munising, Michigan.
• Boulder Junction, Wisconsin: "The whole area is a park. Boulder Junction is surrounded by 225,000 acres of the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest, and driving any of the surrounding roads bordered with numerous lakes is beyond spectacular any time of the year, but especially in the fall!"
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