Picture this: massive brown bears, their fur glistening in the Alaskan sun, wading through rushing rivers to catch salmon.

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 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 ...

Who is the chunkiest brown bear of them all? That's what the National Park Service is trying to determine during its annual ...

Fat Bear Week doesn’t officially start at Katmai National Park and Preserve until Oct. 2, when fans can begin voting online ...

Every year, the biggest bears at Katmai National Park go head-to-head in an online bracket. But not before their cubs compete ...

The curvy clash kicks off with Fat Bear Junior this week, with voting taking place Sep. 26 and 27. Fat Bear Week runs Oct. 2 ...