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Katmai National Park Travel Guide

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Bear Posing on the beach. Hallo Bay Wilderness
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Bear Posing on the beach. Hallo Bay Wilderness

Katmai National Park [1] is a United States National Park that is located at the base of the Alaskan Peninsula in Southwestern Alaska, near Kodiak Island.

Contents

Understand

History

The park includes the Brooks River National Historic Landmark, a site that contains about 900 prehistoric human dwellings, the highest known concentration in North America.

Landscape

The park contains the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a forty square mile pyroclastic ash flow left by the 1912 eruption of the Novarupta Volcano and is one of the reasons the park was established.

Flora and fauna

Bears foraging along beach. Hallo Bay Wilderness
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Bears foraging along beach. Hallo Bay Wilderness

The park contains a huge number of Alaskan brown bears, which grow to enormous size after feeding on the summer salmon runs.

Climate

Get in

Fees/Permits

Get around

See

Do

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Lodging

Camping

Backcountry

Stay safe

Get out

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