Heads up, campers: Parts of a popular park in the Great Smoky Mountains is closing, and rangers are blaming it on hungry bears.Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Wednesday temporarily closed ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to one of the largest black bear populations in the Eastern United States. With over 1,500 bears living in the park, it presents excellent opportunities ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has closed a park road due to bear activity during a time when the animals are foraging for food. The National Park Service (NPS) closed the Rich Mountain Road ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have closed a couple of trails until further notice to allow a large concentration of black bears to feed on acorns. The Gatlinburg Trail between ...

Birds, bees, bears, dragonflies, salamanders, hemlocks, fungi: scientific research in Great Smoky Mountains National Park addresses a wide swath of subjects. From Tennessee, North Carolina, South ...

Its not just breathtaking scenery that makes Great Smoky Mountains National Park one of the best road trip destinations for travelers within the U.S.

Two trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are closed to allow black bears to feed on acorns that are abundant this time of year.. The Gatlinburg Trail between Gatlinburg and Sugarlands ...

According to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, there have been an average of 339 negative human-bear encounters annually for the last decade. To stream WBIR on your phone, you need the WBIR app.

PREVIOUS: Park rangers identify human remains found in Great Smoky Mountains National Park This is the second bear-related fatality in the history of GSMNP, according to a spokesperson with the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Wildlife biologists believe there could be as many as 1,900 bears living in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Sevier County has nearly 100,000 full-time residents and ...

A Great Smoky Mountains National Park campsite is closed and a bear has been euthanized after a 16-year-old sustained multiple injuries during an attack while she was sleeping in a hammock.

Over Memorial Day weekend, a visitor caught three adults in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on film throwing peanut butter balls to a 100-pound male bear near the roadside in Cades Cove, a ...