Byron was soaking in the Smoky Mountain's view, completely lost in the moment, when nature threw in a furry surprise. Out of nowhere, a bear strolled right up to a balcony like it owned the place!

In Gatlinburg, peak bear season and peak tourist season coincide. In the summer it's not uncommon to see a black bear roaming the streets of Gatlinburg or in the nearby Great Smoky Mountains ...

Screenshot from "Bear with rare five-cub litter breaks into, steals from SUV in Great Smoky Mountains" via USA Today Network. Secure your doors and roll up your windows—there’s a black bear bandit on ...

(WATE) — Appalachian Bear Rescue has welcomed another bear cub after its mother was hit in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Sunday afternoon, the National Park Service contacted the ...

Secure your doors and roll up your windows, there's a black bear ... the Great Smoky Mountains. A momma bear was caught breaking into a white SUV not once, but twice, as five small cub accomplices ...

Secure your doors and roll up your windows, there's a black bear bandit and a rare litter of five cubs breaking into cars in the Great Smoky Mountains. A momma bear was caught breaking into a white ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Park rangers rescued a bear cub after she was found near a ranger station inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Wednesday, according to officials with the ...

The man leaning over the railings of the bear enclosure ... in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. It was ­wriggling violently, and when the boy opened it, out climbed a tiny bear cub.

A black bear cub near the Cherokee National Forest and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was rescued from a plastic feeding container that got stuck on its head, and state wildlife officials ...

Nature often manages to correct itself, which is exactly what this video out of the Smoky Mountain of Tennessee depicts ... they first thought it was a black bear attacking a smaller bear, or even a ...