Meet Catherine Ericson, an official New York leaf peeper in Lake Placid

NCPR

Published October 17, 2026 at 7:43 AM EDT

For the past 10 years, Catherine Ericson has spent her autumns tracking the changing leaves around Lake Placid in upstate New York, as one of the state's official leaf peepers.

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