New Hampshire Launches New Mobile Foliage Tracker

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Attention, leaf peepers: Visit New Hampshire has started a new foliage tracker aimed at helping visitors plan their 'peak' fall adventure.

The interactive, mobile-friendly tracker offers regional reports of New Hampshire's scenery, lodging and dining suggestions, points of interest around the state, and leaf peeper images.

Travel officials say about 8.5 million people are expected to visit New Hampshire this fall, an increase of about 5 percent from last year. Spending from these visitors is anticipated to be up 7 percent, reaching $1.3 billion.

The fall season is historically the second busiest season in the state, attracting more than 25 percent of all visitors to New Hampshire annually.