Bearwallow is an unincorporated community in Henderson County, North Carolina United States and is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is located along Gerton Highway (US 74A), within Hickory Nut Gorge, flanked by Burntshirt, Grant, and Little Bearwallow mountains.

[3][4][5] The area was first connected by a Drovers' road, a natural access into the interior of the Blue Ridge Mountains for drovers who were moving livestock, mostly flocks of turkeys and some geese, herds of hogs and some cattle in and out of the mountains to the markets.

Established in 1798, it connected the area with Asheville, following on what is today US 74A.

[6] It was also during the 1790s when William Mills, a pioneer settler, named the area after a much-frequented bear wallow located there.