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Alaska
Katmai
Field Guide
A volcanic landscape reborn as the best place on Earth to watch wild brown bears fish for salmon.
A complete planning guide to Katmai National Park and Preserve. Covers the mandatory bear safety orientation and food storage rules at Brooks Camp, getting there via Anchorage, King Salmon, and floatplane, the 1912 Novarupta eruption that formed the ash-buried Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, watching brown bears fish for sockeye salmon from the Brooks Falls viewing platforms and the annual Fat Bear Week phenomenon, Naknek Lake paddling and fishing routes, Alutiiq and Sugpiaq heritage along the Brooks River, camping and lodging options from Brooks Camp Campground to the remote fly-in lodges, the official NPS park map, and what to know before booking a trip to a park with no roads in or out.
- 14
- pages
- instant download
- Aug 2026
- last updated
What's inside
- 1Mandatory bear school and food storage rules before you set foot on a trail
- 2Reaching Brooks Camp via Anchorage, King Salmon, and floatplane
- 3The 1912 Novarupta eruption and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
- 4Brown bears fishing sockeye salmon at Brooks Falls and Fat Bear Week
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The Katmai guide, page by page
A 14-page print-at-home PDF field guide to Katmai, Alaska.
- 01Welcome to Katmai
- 02Rules & basics
- 03First-time logistics
- 04The eruption that created a park
- 05Park overview map
- 06Bears, falls & the smoking valley
- 07Routes & travel
- 08Wildlife
- 09Weather & when to go
- 10Beyond the trails
- 11Camping & lodging
- 12Pocket cards
- 13Route quick-card
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