Animal lovers can vote for their favorite chunky bear at Alaska's Katmai National Park until Oct. 5, after which Fat Bear Week's winner will be announced Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for ...

Thousands of enormous brown bears feed on the sockeye salmon, clams, and dense vegetation in this Alaskan national park with ...

Katmai National Park’s 4-million acres is home to one of the world’s largest brown bear populations. Explore the top things to see and do and other things to know before you go.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to former ranger Mike Fitz about Katmai National Park & Preserve - the glorious setting for a very popular National Parks Service event, "Fat Bear Week." ...

A new federal report indicates the pilot of a floatplane landing at a popular Alaska bear-viewing site in early July crashed in reportedly gusty conditions at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The ...

Park story from Katmai National Park & PreserveJust over two years ago, my boyfriend (Andrew) and I were in the midst of planning a trip to Alaska to view grizzly bears in the wild at Katmai National ...

Katmai National Park and Preserve rangers captured a photo of a bear sitting on a rock in a frog-like stance. People said it looked like a giant teddy bear.

At Katmai National Park and Preserve, the beginning of October can only mean one thing: Fat Bear Week. To celebrate the beginning of hibernation season for the park's brown bears, Katmai pits them ...

Katmai National Park & Preserve President Woodrow Wilson established Katmai National Monument in 1918 to preserve the "Valley of 10,000 Smokes," so named when the Novarupta Volcano filled the valley ...