please just fill up your gas tank and get some snacks before you start driving through the notches/highways up here. You will be stuck in traffic for 3-5 hours once you're around the notches/kanc highway. Not sure if you will regret or not, but i assume you will. It is absolutely the worst day to visit. If you're going to come, come tomorrow or wednesday.

as far as foliage goes, it is pretty close to peak foliage as of yesterday. Still some green but a lot of yellow. This past weekend would have been better to come up as far as the views to suffering cost of traffic. There will be tons of tour buses over the next two weekends.

My personal suggestion would be to go to the mad river glen to ride the single chair ($20) and enjoy the views there or look for some other resorts that have fall foliage rides in VT. I do not think you will be as miserable since it's a little less well known compared to the stuff in the white mountains for fall foliage and the roads are more painful for bus/tours to get to.