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A campground in Banff National Park is closed after a black bear ripped a tent trailer early Saturday morning, frightening the family inside.

Around 5 a.m. Saturday, the bear showed up at the Rampart Creek Campground, located about 88 kilometres north of Lake Louise on the Icefields Parkway.

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“We had a black bear rip through a tent trailer and another tent,” said Brianna Burley, human-wildlife conflict specialist with Lake Louise, Yoho and Kootenay national parks. “Nobody was injured, but the tent trailer was occupied by a family.

“It was pretty scary for them.”

The nearby tent was unoccupied because it had been set up for some friends who hadn’t arrived yet.

Burley said one of the other people staying at the campground was able to take a video of the bear.

“By the way it was meandering through campgrounds and digging through firepits, I am led to believe that it has gotten into food or has been fed somewhere along the way,” she said, noting it’s likely a food-conditioned bear. “However, in both the tent trailer and the tent, there were no attractants inside.”