Katmai National Park and Preserve also safeguards 9,000 years of human habitation, the dramatic volcanic landscape ...

Your chance to weigh-in with fat bears and vote for your favorite one as Fat Bear Week returns to Katmai October 2–8, 2024.

An Alaska national park's yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest ...

Mark your calendars! The 10th annual Fat Bear Week returns to Katmai National Park and PreserveOctober 2 – 8, 2024.Online ...

An Alaska national park's annual celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber ...

Fat bear junior contestant bites her cousin ...

This year's contest also has an emotional favorite: a spring cub of Grazer, the 2023 Fat Bear champion. The cub's sibling tragically died earlier this summer after falling over a waterfall on the ...

One of the most dominant bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve's Brooks River ... SEE ALSO: A violent event occurred on Alaska's fat bear livestream A single sockeye salmon can pack around ...

Fat Bear Week, the most wonderful time of the year, is almost upon us. It’s a time when the bears of Katmai National Park and ...

Katmai National Park and Preserve—on a peninsula in southern Alaska—was established in 1918 to care for the area of Novarupta and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes after a cataclysmic volcanic ...