Cottonwood Cabin

07/21/2025

04/29/2025

Big ole bear came through last night.

07/07/2024

Young fox seen today on the brow.

05/03/2024

We have the best visitors! 🐻

03/04/2024

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11/26/2023

Winter in Mentone, Alabama is an unforgettable experience, and you'll want to visit it every year for winter adventures.

06/03/2023

The bears are moving! Be !

In June, yearlings start moving out. Bears that were born last spring and denned up with mom this past winter are now 18-month old yearlings. If all goes well, they’ll be the size of a medium-sized dog by the end of June, although their fur coats can make them look larger. Yearling females are often allowed to move in next door to their mom. Yearling males are strongly encouraged to move out and go find a new territory of their own, so most young bears wandering far from home are males.

No matter how big and furry they look, yearling bears are all trying to figure out how to live without their mom’s help. They are often lonely and lack the fully developed survival skills of an adult bear. They are also hungry and inquisitive and will instinctively check out anything that seems as if it might be a source of food.

Like human teenagers, they are at a very impressionable stage of life. If they quickly discover that human places should be avoided, they will learn to support themselves as wild bears. If they find the backyard pickings are easy, they start down a road that is often a dead end. No matter how cute they look and how hungry they are, the best thing you can do to help yearlings grow up wild is to make sure there’s nothing around your home to attract them.

Learn how to be BearWise in our June article: bearwise.org/bear-alarm-clocks-are-going-off

Thanks for doing your part to be BearWise this month and all summer long!

05/29/2023

Couple visitors this morning!

02/03/2023

Sad news out of Mentone today. One of our local landmarks was lost overnight. Thankfully, no one was injured.

12/26/2022

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1st day of 2022 2023 ski Season. Yay; it's been a long time coming.

08/30/2022

We have a few September dates available before the fall rush. We’d love to see you at Cottonwood Cabin!