Cooler temperatures mean beautiful fall leaf colors around East Tennessee.

National Park officials say that the leaves have reached their peak for fall color in the highest elevations inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Color is beginning to show more and more in the valley as well thanks to a cooler stretch of weather.

Meanwhile, leaves in the middle to lower elevations are within a week of hitting their peak.

For the plateau, leaves are nearing their peak over the next week or so.

Due to the drier weather, a lot of leaves are falling off which means color this year may be a little more muted than normal due to the lack of rain through the summer and then Hurricane Helene’s winds knocking the leaves off the trees.