AVERY COUNTY, N.C. (WJHL) – Visitors to Grandfather Mountain could experience a close encounter for the next few weeks in the form of a creative painting session with the park’s black bears.

SHE IS THE ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS THERE AT THE GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN ... A LITTLE MORE EPIC WHEN THERE’S BLACK BEARS AND COUGARS AND ELK INVOLVED.

People on the internet were positively swooning over a video of a Black Bear at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina taking a big stretch during a nap. It was a rare sight! It sort of makes you ...

N.C. Their reddish coats are unusual for black bears in the eastern U.S. (AP Photo/Grandfather Mountain, Hugh Morton) And for the last 9,000 years, the color of some populations of American black ...

Grandfather Mountain reopened Wednesday, including the Wilson Center for Nature Discovery, Mildred the Bear Environmental ... Bridge Trail, Black Rock Trail and Grandfather Loop.

In addition to the Wilson Center for Nature Discovery, Mildred the Bear Environmental ... Bridge Trail, Black Rock Trail and Grandfather Loop will be open. Please note that Grandfather Mountain ...

An orphaned bear cub that defied the odds and “survived a very cold winter alone” in upstate New York “packed on the pounds” ...

LINVILLE, N.C. (WJHL) — Grandfather Mountain ... Mildred the Bear Environmental Habitats, Top Shop and Mile High Swinging Bridge, access to the Woods Walk, Bridge Trail, Black Rock Trail and ...

According to the DEC, black bears were once limited to small, isolated populations in inaccessible mountain regions of the state. More recently, bear management has allowed black bear populations ...

As he recovers from extensive jaw and dental reconstruction surgery, Montana grizzly bear attack survivor Rudy ... speech was possible but painful for the grandfather-of-two, who wrote out ...

At the base of Hunter Mountain, along a tree line, an orphaned and malnourished black bear cub was found near some trails on March 15. “One of the groundskeepers, they found him and called DEC ...