An eight-mile section of the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina was closed indefinitely on Monday after officials received multiple reports of people attempting to hold and feed a young bear.
from the National Park Service, officials said the parkway is closed “until further notice” after reports surfaced of the incident at the Lane Pinnacle Overlook, which is located about 12 miles northeast of downtown Asheville.
Parkway officials closed an 8-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville after visitors attempting to feed and hold a young bear.“We are closing this section of the road temporarily for the safety of both the bear and park visitors,” Tracy Swartout, the superintendent of the Blue Ridge Parkway, said in“In this instance we want to give the bear a chance to lose interest in the area before the situation escalates and visitors or the bear are harmed.
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