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Katmai National Park Brooks Camp Campground

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Katmai National Park & Preserve

The Brooks Camp Campground in Katmai National Park provides a quintessential Alaskan wildlife experience. When campers step off their floatplane or boat, they enter one of the largest concentrated habitats of brown bears on earth. July and September are the prime bear viewing months and close…

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  • Boat-In
    Sites accessible by watercraft.

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  • Tent Sites

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3 Reviews

Dan X.
Reviewed Jan. 5, 2021

Campground could have been on a pile of trash and it'd still be worth it

Fortunately the campground was lovely in addition to the BEARS. Flew from Florida to Seattle to Anchorage to King Salmon .. and then took a little puddle jumper to Brooks Camp. A long and expensive trip, but worth it for the bears (and I got my money shot of a bear named Lefty catching a fish at…

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Rubi V.
Reviewed Jul. 4, 2018

Amazing place, once in a lifetime experience!

Beautiful place, they have clean bathrooms and enough space for the tents. It has an electric fence for avoiding the bears to enter. You can walk to the lunge (about 1/2 km) for having prepared food and even a bath if you pay for using the hot water. They also have spaces for making fire and cook…

SwitchbackKids
Reviewed Jul. 27, 2017

One of a kind experience; Nothing quite like it in the National Parks

If you are a national parks enthusiast, or even remotely interested in them, you’ve probably heard of this spot in Alaska where you can witness bears grabbing salmon straight out of a waterfall. This is Brooks Camp, in Katmai National Park.

To camp at Brooks Camp is very tricky. Sites are…

Month of VisitAugust
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Location

Katmai National Park Brooks Camp Campground is located in Alaska

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Directions

Katmai is 290 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. There are daily commercial flights from Anchorage to King Salmon. Commercial air taxis fly daily, weather permitting, from King Salmon, Anchorage and Homer to Brooks Camp. Many individual lodges have their own transportation

Coordinates

58.5605537 N
155.78167018 W

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