5 Places to Take a Fall Family Photo in Charlotte
These nearby locations make great backdrops for family photos
Fall is one of the best seasons in North Carolina, filled with crisp blue-sky days and myriad of bright orange, red and yellow leaves, making it a good time to snap a family photo. No sweating, no freezing, just perfect temperatures. These five places are within forty-five minutes of Charlotte and offer great natural backgrounds for a family photo. Get on it, so you can get your perfect family holiday card ordered sooner than later!
1. Fisher Farm Park
A 200-acre park in Davidson that is mostly open space and natural area. If you like to mountain bike, there are also four miles of mountain-bike trails.
2. Freedom Park
This family favorite off East Boulevard in Charlotte offers the seven-acre pond as a backdrop as well as stone bridges and bright-yellow maple trees.
3. Independence Park
Also located just minutes from uptown Charlotte, this park offers lots of stone walls, manicured box hedges and arbors that make for excellent close-up photos.
4. Colonel Francis Beatty Park
Located in Matthews, this park has many areas with wooded backdrops that give a nice warm hue to photos, plus there's a lake.
5. Anne Springs Close Greenway
Rolling pasture land, historic cabins and wooden fences compliment the colorful foliage at this spot in Fort Mill, S.C.