Bear Viewing Katmai National Park

Katmai National Park is home to more then 3,500 of Alaska's population of 30,000 grizzly bears (brown bears). Bear viewing in Katmai is the only place in the world that grizzly bears have become habituated to humans without severe negative consequences happening to the bear. There are several reasons why this is, first and foremost is that all the guides and guests that come to Katmai treat the bears with the utmost of respect. In turn the bears have become tolerant of our non threatening behavior gracing us with all the wonderful photos our memory cards are able to hold. Grizzly bear viewing in Katmai is a wonderful experience and as long as we give the brown bears habitat the protection it needs for the bears to continue there natural cycle of life and we show them respect and maintain a non threatening posture this co-existence between the Katmai bear viewer and Katmai bear should go on and on.