National Park Guide

Katmai Field Guide

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.

What's inside

• ✓Mandatory bear school and food storage rules before you set foot on a trail
• ✓Reaching Brooks Camp via Anchorage, King Salmon, and floatplane
• ✓The 1912 Novarupta eruption and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
• ✓Brown bears fishing sockeye salmon at Brooks Falls and Fat Bear Week