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 ...

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 ...

Press release from the National Park Service: After multiple documented reports of visitors feeding and attempting to hold a young bear in recent weeks at the Lane Pinnacle Overlook, Blue Ridge ...

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 ...

Rangers closed part of a trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway after a bear attacked and fatally injured a hiker's dog, the National Park Service says. The incident was the first of a series of ...

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 ...