UPDATED!!! Ohio Route 555/26, October 20th 2013: Fall Colors Meet!!
 

Alright, as promised guys, here is the thread to organize and coordinate a trip down through Southeast Ohio during what will hopefully be peak color! As much fun was had during the July drive, this one will be cooler and a lot more colorful (both from a car and tree standpoint).

As of this point, I would like to meet up on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20th. SINCE THE WEATHER IS FORECAST TO BE IFFY, AS PROMISED, WE ARE RAIN CHECKING TO SUNDAY

So, based on the trip I took with the Ohioscions.com group, here is what I am thinking:

Meet up at Salt Fork State Park, at the Lodge around 11 AM. Pack a lunch, I don't know if the lodge has any concessions to speak of.

We depart and head down to Route 26:
Salt Fork State Park to Marietta, OH

This is the part of the route that will be more picturesque, as well as covering a few of the more scenic covered bridges.

Then we head along the river for a short bit (a slight break), and pick up OH Route 555 up to Zanesville:
CORRECTED OH 555 MAP

We can always take a break between Marietta and the southern point of 555, we can decide on the road.

Total time from Salt Fork will be about 3-4 hours, depending on traffic. Plan for a full day of fun!

EDIT: THE FULL ROUTE FOR THE DAY! :happyanim:

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NEW EDIT: Date has been decided! October 20th, 2013!

Current list of those attending (and tentative):

1) HunterGreene
2) If_theShoe_Fitz
3) pete39sp
4) kseroski
5) Rampage (MR-S)
6) Lytheum +1 golf r
7) microbionic
8) Jimp
9) mikalem
10) dothetango1990
11) Terebit (MR-S)
12) sharris721

I am thinking that this will be a spirited, but safe drive. We won't exactly be canyon carving, but there's no reason we can't have fun ;)

So, things to bring:

-Camera
-Sunscreen (if you are bringing a convertible)
-2-way radios (I have two, more are welcome)
-Snacks (if you will be able to eat them)
-Your car (doesn't have to be one of the twins!)

Before I start a list of people attending, lets settle on the date. And while I have no intent on excluding anyone outside of the club, lets see how many want to attend before we start throwing out invites willy-nilly. I don't want this to get too big.

the 19th or 20th would work for me which ever works better for the rest. Either way I am in.

Bump!

Either day

*bump*

I'm in.... either day will mark it down now. Thanks

I think I will let people weigh in through the end of this week (Friday) then make a decision. You guys will have to excuse me as I bump this a few times a day ;)

So, @BigOxley , @Jimp , @mrnibbs , @Rampage , @Lytheum...you guys mentioned that you would be interested in a fall redux of this drive....you in? What day would you prefer?

Full route
 

So this is the full route?

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I think I'll be there at this point

That is correct...I just left out the boring part in the middle. I'm going to steal this and attach it to the OP. Just wish I knew how to make these embedded maps :p

Do you have a preferred day (sat/sun)?

I need to read more closely, thats actually *NOT* the correct route. You missed 555 completely.

EDIT: kseroski, try using the corrected 555 map, that is going in the correct direction now.

EDIT AGAIN: Full map, corrected:

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I can only do sunday

Sorry, I just got back from a trip to the southeast (NC, SC, GA) a little while ago so this is my first chance to post about this. Ironically, the 19th of October is the only day the rest of the year that I have something planned. There is a big annual MR2/Celica meet in NJ and NY on that day that I was planning to attend. I have not made my hotel reservations yet so now I will have to make a decision on which event to attend.

My son and I will be heading down to do RT26 in the next week or two so I may opt to do the New York Bear Mountain event in October. On the other hand, I would save a ton of money by just going down south with you guys. Decisions-Decisions!