Leaf Peeping & Fall Foliage Hats

Peak foliage in Vermont is forecast for around October 9th this year, and the color rolls north to south over roughly eight days. That narrow window pulls about two and a half million visitors into a state of six hundred thousand people, which is why the roads through the notches stop being scenic drives sometime around the second Saturday and become parking lots with a view. Towns have responded by closing roads and, in a few famous cases, asking influencers to please stop coming. Leaf peeper is what the locals call you. These hats take the title rather than argue with it. The collection runs from straightforward pride, in slab-serif arches reading LEAF PEEPER and PEAK FOLIAGE, through to the specific disappointments of the hobby: the six-hour drive, the rental car everyone can identify from a distance, and the sentence every foliage map eventually delivers, which is that peak was last week. Twelve designs in autumn colorways with orange and old gold thread. Timed for a season that does not wait.