Katmai National Park
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Our nature and brown bear viewing trips take place in the heart
of Katmai National Park. Our goal is to help educate,
preserve, and better understand this wonderful land. Provided by the
National Park Service the following information about Katmai Preserve
is the pith and marrow of what the park is and has to offer. What
we aim to do here is not so much provide you with the dimensions,
names, and shreds of creation that flourish in the park, but to keep
your mind open to their meanings and what Katmai represents. This
place produces everyday miracles and brings us close to the primary
things on earth. Customizing trips for families, photo shoots, movie
crews, and nature enthusiasts, our 20 years of operation within the
park and private ownership of 160 acres of land within Katmai will
help guide you into the total immersion into this magnificent place
called Katmai National Park and Preserve.
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Wilderness Photo of a
Brown Bear in Katmai Park by John Hyde |
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Katmai National Park and Preserve
Katmai Park and Preserve is located at the
North east portion of the Alaska Peninsula
approximately 280 air miles SW
of Anchorage. It includes over four
million acres of land and water and is roughly bounded by Shelikof
Strait to the east, the Lake Iliamna watershed to the north, the Bristol
Bay coastal plain to the west, and the Becharof Lake watershed to
the south. The area (Katmai Park)was established as a national
monument in 1918 to preserve many of the geological
features related to the 06 June 1912 eruptions of Mt. Katmai and Novarupta
volcano. To protect habitats for, and populations of, fish and wildlife,
including, but not limited to, high concentrations of brown / grizzly
bears and their denning areas; to maintain unimpaired the water habitat
for significant salmon populations; and to protect scenic, geological,
cultural and recreational features.
Brown bear and salmon are very active in Katmai
Park. The number of brown bears has grown to more than 2,000. During
the peak of the world's largest sockeye salmon run each July, and
during return of the "spawned out" salmon in September, forty to sixty
bears congregate along the Brooks River in Katmai Park and the Naknek
Lake and Brooks Lake shorelines. Brown bears along the 480 mile Katmai
Coast also enjoy clams, crabs, and an occasional whale carcass.
This information was provided by the National Park Service
Katmai Bear Viewing Lodge
Come visit our Alaska Bear Viewing Lodge in the heart of
Katmai National Park Alaska the heart and soul of the brown bear.
We offer over night stays in our magnificent katmai brown bear viewing
lodge on the wild and scenic alagnak river. Specializing in family
vacations and photography workshops tours for the novice and professional
wildlife photographer our katmai wilderness lodge is dead smack
in the center of all Katmai Perseve has to offer. Let us make your
next Alaska brown bear wildlife adventure vacation a success.
Contact us at +(1) 907 519 6820, +(44) 7775 602 424 or go to our rates
page to book a trip today. |