While an incident with a bear at the Difficult Campground near Aspen has led to banning tents and soft-sided campers there, there are food storage rules across the White River National Forest, ...

Officials say bears in the area of the Springer Mountain Shelter in Blue Ridge are getting bolder toward hikers and campers.

Forest officials have shut down a shelter near the Appalachian Trail in Georgia for 14 days after bear activity.

This is a tutorial on what NOT to do around black bears. This video shows a man tempting fate and a black bear at a Gatlinburg riverbank on May 25. While the bear is busy catching a fish in the river, ...

A recent study has released the best day hikes on the Appalachian ... bears are common, and McCollum has even crossed paths with wild boars. Once you’ve gone out and back, drive to the nearby ...

Are the black bears in the areas of McAfee Knob and Tinker Cliffs growing smarter? At the least, they seem cagier and more socialized to humans in those Appalachian Trail areas. And that can be ...

proves as plentiful as black bears — and a lot more demoralizing — as Turner discovers in his memoir “Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail: Walking on Through Self-Doubt and Aging ...

Rusty Foster is partway through a planned six-month hike of the Appalachian Trail ... Today on Trail. In early August, Mica and I made it to Bear River Road in Grafton Notch State Park, a deep ...

BEAR MOUNTAIN — The Appalachian Trail at Bear Mountain State Park officially reopened last weekend, 10 months after it closed amid severe flooding last summer, the state Office of Parks ...