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

NCPR

Published October 17, 2026 at 7:43 AM EDT

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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.