SO HERE WE ARE in the Month of Colour, as October might well be dubbed, and the local arts community is celebrating artistic colour with the Headwaters Arts Festival while the Credit Valley Explorer is running special fall colour tours.

Without a doubt, the next few weeks will provide a golden opportunity for the local populace, as well as the hordes from the Greater Toronto Area, to witness the spectacular colours in the Dufferin area's many wooded valleys.

However, one thing missing in both Dufferin and Caledon are highways and byways that have been officially designated as "scenic routes" and assist tourists with the appropriate road markers.

Granted, some roads so obviously qualify as scenic routes that they likely don't need the markers, three examples being Caledon's Fork of the Credit Road, Mono's Hockley Road and Mulmur's River Road, all of which will be busier than usual as the fall foliage reaches its colourful peak.

However, what's really needed is a grid of sorts that would offer tourists a round trip.

One such in Caledon would take you from Highway 10 along Forks of the Credit Road to Mississauga Road, up to Peel Road 24, south on Shaw's Creek Road, east through Belfountain to Mississauga Road, south to the Grange Sideroad east past the Caledon Badlands and back to Highway 10.

(The more adventurous would continue east on the Grange to Mountainview Road, up to Highway 9 and back to 10 via Horseshoe Hill Road and Olde Base Line Road.)

In Dufferin, one "grand circle tour" could also start from Highway 10, follow the Hockley Road to Airport Road, north to Dufferin 21, west as far as Ruskview (for the spectacular view of the Pine River Valley), south to Terra Nova, west along the River Road to Prince of Wales Road and south to Highway 10 at Primrose.