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Each year, 200,000 to 400,000 sockeye salmon jump Brooks Falls.

Bear standing at the edge of a waterfall while a salmon is leaping towards it.

In July, brown bears often stand on the lip of Brooks Falls to try to catch leaping salmon.

Salmon streams in Katmai attract high numbers of brown bears.

lake inside of an ash and glacier covered volcano

Mount Katmai's summit collapsed during the 1912 Novarupta-Katmai eruption. Today, the caldera is filled with a deep lake.

meadow in foreground and snow capped volcanoes on the horizon

Glacially clad volcanoes loom over the sedge meadows of Hallo Bay

Physical Address:

1000 Silver Street

Building 603

King Salmon, AK 99613

Mailing Address:

PO Box 7

1000 Silver Street, Building 603

King Salmon, AK 99613

contact-details

Phone Number: 9072463305 Voice
Phone Number: 9072462116 Fax

Email Address: KATM_Visitor_Information@nps.gov
Description:

Fees

Entrance Fees

Entrance Passes

A landscape is alive underneath our feet, filled with creatures that remind us what it is to be wild. Katmai was established in 1918 to protect the volcanically devastated region surrounding Novarupta and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Today, Katmai National Park and Preserve also protects 9,000 years of human history and important habitat for salmon and thousands of brown bears.

park designation:National Park & Preserve

Directions:

Katmai National Park & Preserve is located on the northern Alaska Peninsula, northwest of Kodiak Island and southwest of Homer, Alaska. The park’s headquarters is in King Salmon, about 290 air miles southwest of Anchorage. Unlike most national parks in the United States, Katmai is almost exclusively accessed by plane or boat.

For detailed directions, please visit this link.

Directions

Operating Hours:

Katmai National Park and Preserve

Katmai is open 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

Weather Information:

Located between the stormy north Pacific Ocean and the even stormier Bering Sea, the Katmai region is often a battleground between weather systems. When you visit, be prepared to encounter all types of weather. On average, wet and cool conditions predominate in spring, summer, and fall. Winters are drier and colder.