leaf peeping AmE informal

In each of his 33 years at the magazine leaf peeping has been a fall cover story.

The origin of the term "leaf peeping" is not well known.

"Leaf peeping" is considered a fall activity throughout the United States and Canada.

Leaf peeping is a serious sport in Asheville — hence the weekly “fall color report” from the local visitor’s bureau (exploreasheville.com).

But during fall foliage season, weekend leaf peeping becomes a common ground upon which the thrifty and the extravagant can agree.

In Latvia during russeting, leaf peeping is promoted both internationally and locally.

Leaf peeping has become popular.

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Fall in New Jersey means apple picking, pumpkin picking, minor league leaf peeping (the Garden State is no Vermont, after all) and, if you live in the right neighborhood, maybe raising a sukkah or two.

Leaf peeping is an informal term in the United States for the activity in which people travel to view and photograph the fall foliage in areas where foliage changes colors in autumn, particularly in New England.

Maple trees are so iconic here that a good deal of tourism revolves around leaf peeping of the maples' fall tapestry, maple syrup festivals and visits to maple sugar bushes, the name for sugar maple orchards.

A favorite area for leaf peeping is Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, which covers more than a million and a half acres in the northern part of the state and is partly covered with maple, oak, birch, aspen, ash, cherry and tamarack trees.

Biologists at the University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center will do some leaf peeping of their own to find out—studying how temperature affects the development of autumn colors and whether the warming climate could mute them, prolong the foliage viewing season or delay it.

"Leaf peeping" is what the locals call the recreational pursuit of touring around the blazing gold, orange, yellow, purple and brown branches of the mountain forests.