Established Camping
Katmai National Park Brooks Camp Campground
About
National Park Service
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…
Access
- Drive-InPark next to your site
- Boat-InSites accessible by watercraft.
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Site Types
- Tent Sites
Features
For Campers
- Reservable
RangerCampground 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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ScoutAmazing 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…
LegendOne 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…
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Location
Katmai National Park Brooks Camp Campground is located in Alaska
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