Katmai National Park
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Katmai National Park [1] is a United States National Park that is located in the state of Alaska at the base of the Alaskan Peninsula in Southern Alaska, near Kodiak Island.
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Understand
History
The park includes the Brooks River National Historic Landmark, a site that contains about 900 prehistoric human dwellings, the highest known concentration in North America.
Landscape
The 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.
Climate
Get in
Fees/Permits
Get around
See
Do
Buy
Eat
Drink
Sleep
Lodging
Camping
Backcountry
Stay safe
Get out
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