Exploring Boone, NC: Fall Colors and Wooly Worm Fun

We drove to Boone, NC to visit our grandson Griffin at Appalachian State University the weekend of October 17-19, 2025 and were rewarded with a beautiful Fall color display on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Linn Cove Viaduct.

Photographs show why the mountains are called the “Blue” Ridge Mountains.

We also visited the Wooly Worm Festival in Banner Elk, NC. Last year it was canceled because of Hurricane Helene damage. It had it largest attendance ever this year. There were crafts, wooly worm races and yes, food trucks.

Wooly Worms

More black than brown means a harsher winter; more brown than black means a mild winter.

Griffin & Morgan holding her wooly worm, Greg; line to race wooly worms was an hour long; food trucks

We sent time enjoying the many restaurants Boone had to offer, exploring the campus of Appalachian State and catching up with our grandson.

More soon about Sonoma during the Harvest, Tahiti and French Polynesia and Hawaii.