Home Is Where The South Is
History, Hotspots, & Happenings
Southeast travel + tourism
Color My Outdoors proudly calls the South home. Founded in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina – an area originally stewarded by the Indigenous Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi) and Muskogee (Mvskoke) peoples – we honor the region’s rich heritage. We also hold deep ties to Georgia that connect us back to lands once stewarded by Black people. At Color My Outdoors, we’re committed to recognizing the displacement and systemic marginalization of the South’s original inhabitants. Through our work, we envision a South where its history is honored, its stories are celebrated, and its lands become places of healing, joy, and belonging for everyone who calls it home.
Discover The South
"The South" is often referred to as the territory below the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary south of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Today Travel South USA defines it as Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. As Color My Outdoors continues to grow in programming, we’re currently centering our mission work in the following states of the Southeast Region: North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Virginia.
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This region offers beaches to mountains; active to leisure; big cities to small towns any season. The South features national and state parks for camping and hiking; wild and scenic rivers to raft or fish; scenic byways for community drives and state highways for long-distance adventures. Visiting the Southeastern U.S. states is an introduction to historic sites and battlefields; internationally acclaimed museums; urban to rural gardens; and Deep South music (blues, rock ‘n’ roll, hip hop, country, Cajun, bluegrass, soul, funk, and R&B), festivals, and food.
The region includes Caribbean and coastal islands, marshes, coral reefs; the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains; caves, longleaf, shortleaf pine, and bottomland hardwood forests.Outdoor adventures abound: paddling, fishing, boating, rafting, horseback riding, farm touring, watersports, camping, backpacking, and RVing.
The Southeastern United States is among the most biologically diverse hotspots in the world.
*Data Sources: Travel South USA, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and World Population Review
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Pack your church fan because heat and humidity saturate the South. Typically, the weather is sunny, shifting from warm, hot, and scorching during the summer months.
The Deep South
*Data Sources: Travel South USA, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and World Population Review
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The Deep South experiences seasonal contrast in both temperate and foliage. Spring brings blooming gardens, warm days, cool mornings, and evenings (average 21°C, 71°F). Hot summer days and nights (temperatures average 27°C or 84°F) herald the arrival of summer with high humidity resulting from afternoon showers; autumn heralds milder temperatures, although many areas experience warm days (average temperature 19°C or 69KF). Winters are traditionally cold with more rainfall or precipitation (average temperatures 11°C or 52°F).
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Arkansas
The Piedmont
The Piedmont have similar temperatures in the spring and summer as the Deep South. Yet, cooler in the mountainous areas. Autumn leaves burst into a colorful blaze of yellows, reds, and oranges with temperatures at a pleasant 17°C or 63°F. Winter brings cooler temperatures and overnight frost with the occasional (but rare) snow (average temperature 7°C or 44°F).
North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri; Virginia and West Virginia, the mountains and foothills of Arkansas and South Carolina
Foliage changes with the season bringing blooming gardens in the spring (from March to May); lush, dense forests, and hillsides during sunny, sultry summers (June-August); the pine trees, live oaks, and palms found in the South are evergreens, but the maples, oaks and ginkos resemble a painter's palette of color during Fall Foliage (traditionally mid-late October).
