Black Bears Run Wild In Cades Cove - Gatlinburg

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Black Bear Up In The Trees.jpg We planned a spur-of-the-moment trip to Gatlinburg this past weekend. Mom joined us for her first camping trip in years. Last time she went camping was with dad when we were kids. (She reminded me that we used to camp in these "dad-made tents" - without floors in them!)



On Saturday afternoon, Mom drove down from Indiana, and we all headed to Gatlinburg in our Jeep Grand Cherokee on Sunday morning. Just our luck... it started raining the SECOND we got our tents put up! So we drove to the hub of Gatlinburg and had dinner & walked in the rain a bit, but most of the shops were closed.

Mama Black Bear In Cades Cove - Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Monday morning, we took a quick drive through Cades Cove and spotted lots of deer (like usual), and even a black bear (like NOT usual)! I had just finished informing mom that Park Rangers once told us to look for bears high in the trees - making their beds, when lo and behold... I thought I spotted a bear up in them thar trees!

Soon, there were a couple dozen people with cameras standing around taking pictures of the mama bear and her 3 baby cubs. They paid us no mind, and I was surprised by just how close we were able to get. But even from our vantage point, you could see the HUGE razor-sharp claws on that bear!

Mama bear was biting off thick tree branches up high in the tree with her bare teeth, and forming a cushy bed with them. She even jumped from one tree to another, and the babies played rambunctiously way up high in the tree tops.

Black Bear Up Close in Cades Cove - Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Then on a completely different road, on our way home, mom spotted another black bear up in the trees! Only this one escaped before we could pull the car over to take pictures...

What I learned today:

Black Bears aren't so frightening... at least when they're way up in the trees!

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Pixel_Dust said:

I agree with emmz. Your bear pictures are great. I would like to see more bear pictures also. Do you have some more at another picture saving place that we can go view them?
While in Gatlinburg we will have to make a trip to cades cove for sure now!

emmz said:

ur bear pictures are really cute can u put more on here please

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