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Katmai National Park & Preserve

Katmai National Monument was created in 1918 to preserve the famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a spectacular forty square mile, 100 to 700 foot deep ash flow deposited by Novarupta Volcano. A National Park & Preserve since 1980, today Katmai is still famous for volcanoes, but also for brown bears, pristine waterways with abundant fish, remote wilderness, and a rugged coastline.

There is plenty room for great diversity of wildlife in Katmai which encompasses millions of acres wild rivers and streams, rugged coastlines, broad green glacial hewn valleys, active glaciers and volcanoes, and Naknek Lake.

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National Park Foundation Junior Ranger Program Initiatives

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Katmai National Park & Preserve Visitor Experiences

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

We had transported our boat to Lake Illiamna. As part of our trip, we visited Brooks camp. If you like to safely view hungry grizzly bears, this is one spot I would recommend--in addition to a guided trip to Geographic Harbor on the Alaska Peninsula. After a wonder-filled visit to the camp, we …

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