Sightseeing
IconicBrooks Falls
No admission feeWatch brown bears catch leaping sockeye salmon from a raised platform beside a six-foot waterfall in Katmai.
Photo: Katmai National Park and Preserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.
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Katmai National Park and Preserve
Fly in to Brooks Camp and watch brown bears fish for salmon at Brooks Falls from raised viewing platforms.
Brooks Camp, reached by floatplane from King Salmon · King Salmon, AK
About Katmai National Park and Preserve
Katmai cannot be reached by car, and most visitors fly in to Brooks Camp on a small floatplane. Everyone starts with a required bear safety talk, then walks to viewing platforms where brown bears catch salmon at Brooks Falls. July is the peak month to watch bears fishing the falls, though bears are in the area from mid-June to mid-October. Daily bus tours run to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, buried in ash by the 1912 eruption of Novarupta.
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