 Katmai National Park [1] is a United States National Park that is located at the base of the Alaskan Peninsula in Southwestern Alaska, near Kodiak Island.
UnderstandHistoryThe park includes the Brooks River National Historic Landmark, a site that contains about 900 prehistoric human dwellings, the highest known concentration in North America. LandscapeThe park contains the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a forty square mile pyroclastic ash flow left by the 1912 eruption of the Novarupta Volcano and is one of the reasons the park was established. Flora and fauna The park contains a huge number of Alaskan brown bears, which grow to enormous size after feeding on the summer salmon runs. ClimateGet inFees/PermitsGet aroundSeeDoBuyEatDrinkSleepLodgingCampingBackcountryStay safeGet out
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