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Grizzly Bear Fishing Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park and Preserve

National park · Alaska

Katmai National Park and Preserve

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Katmai National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in southwest Alaska, notable for the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and for its brown bears. The park and preserve encompass 4,093,077 acres, which is between the land areas of Connecticut and New Jersey. Most of the national park is a designated wilderness area. The park is named after Mount Katmai, its centerpiece stratovolcano. The park is located on the Alaska Peninsula, across from Kodiak Island, with headquarters in nearby King Salmon, about 290 miles (470 km) southwest of Anchorage. The area was first designated a national monument in 1918 to protect the area around the major 1912 volcanic eruption of Novarupta, which formed the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a 40-square-mile (100 km2), 100-to-700-foot-deep pyroclastic flow. The park includes as many as 18 individual volcanoes, seven of which have been active since 1900.

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Type
National park
State
Alaska
Managed by
National Park Service

Photos

  • Grizzly Bear Fishing Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park and Preserve

    Azov · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Katmai Crater 1980, Katmai National Park and Preserve

    Captain Budd Christman, NOAA Corps · Public domain

  • Katmai National Park, Alaska, Katmai National Park and Preserve

    NASA · Public domain

  • Lower end of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (2) (12292001613), Katmai National Park and Preserve

    Katmai National Park and Preserve · Public domain

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