There’s always something to learn about the park units within the National Park System. Take this latest National Parks Traveler quiz and trivia piece and see just how much you really know, while maybe learning a little in the process.
Katmai National Park and Preserve is "bear-y" excited to reveal the winning design for the 2022 Brooks Camp Bear Pins. This year's design competition winner is Analise Kosbruk, a 13-year-old from Perryville, Alaska.
A glance around the National Park System reveals that sometimes it's just too hot to hike, and that historic photos can better inform visitors. Those are just two of the items that can help you have a better experience in the parks in the coming weeks and months.
He's big, brown, and possibly part porcine, for how else could 'Otis,' the bear with the missing canines and well-worn remaining teeth, the one who showed up late for the feast, claim his fourth Fat Bear Week title at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska?
A picture might be worth a thousand words, but for three men who wanted a closer photo of bears feeding on salmon in the Brooks River of Katmai National Park and Preserve the images could cost each a $5,000 fine and six months in prison.
Fat Bear Week 2021 is nearly here, and organizers of the annual fall salmon feast need your help to crown the fattest bear of Brooks River! This annual competition, starting September 29, celebrates the big bruins of Katmai National Park and Preserve as they fatten up ahead of winter.
When you think of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, do you think of bears, or mountains? While Katmai is famous for its Alaskan brown bear population, it's also a national park filled with rugged volcanic landscape, some of which is best seen by airplane.
An announcement Thursday from the Environmental Protection Agency that it was moving to protect the watershed of Bristol Bay in Alaska was hailed by groups opposed to a massive copper mine proposed to be developed near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.