Katmai National Park and Preserve

Katmai National Park and Preserve is famous for volcanoes, brown bears, fish, rugged wilderness, and North America's highest concentration of prehistoric human dwellings (about 900).

Katmai National Monument was created to preserve the famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a spectacular forty square mile, 100 to 700 foot deep, pyroclastic ash flow deposited by Novarupta Volcano.

Brown bear are very active in Katmai. The number of brown bears has grown to more than 2,000.

A rich variety of other wildlife is found in the Park as well.

There is plenty room for great diversity of wildlife in Katmai which encompasses millions of acres of pristine wilderness, with wild rivers and streams, rugged coastlines, broad green glacial hewn valleys, active glaciers and volcanoes.

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             DESIGNATIONS
             Katmai National Monument - September 24, 1918
             National Park & Preserve - December 2, 1980
             Wilderness - December 2, 1980
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             ACREAGE - as of September 23, 2000

             KATMAI National Preserve
             Federal Land - 382,074.00
             Non-Federal Land - 36,625.22
             Gross Area Acres - 418,699.22

             KATMAI National Park
             Federal Land - 3,611,494.73
             Non-Federal Land - 63,034.95
             Gross Area Acres - 3,674,529.68

             Courtesy of the National Parks Service and the ‘freedom of information act'