Press release from Blue Ridge Parkway: The beginning of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s visitor season coincides with the early critical feeding season for bears. As a result, increased visitor traffic on ...

CLOSED FOR BEARS: The Craggy Gardens visitor center is closed until further notice due to an increase in human-bear interactions. Photo courtesy of the Blue Ridge Parkway After several reports of ...

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. Rangers closed part of a trail along ...

Our partners at the Charlotte Observer say bear encounters have been reported from mid-May to early June near the Bull Mountain trail. As of now, a half-mile of the trail is closed from mile marker ...

ASHEVILLE - The half-mile section of the Bull Mountain Trail off of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville opened back up on July 3 after being closed due to "aggressive" bear encounters. More: ...

(CNN) — A section of the Blue Ridge Parkway has been closed by officials “after multiple documented reports of visitors feeding and attempting to hold a young bear in recent weeks,” the National Park ...

ASHEVILLE – Wildlife biologists and law enforcement rangers have closed all use of a half-mile section on Bull Mountain Trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville due to an increase in dangerous ...