Editor’s Note: CNN.com’s weekly Summer in the Park series turns to rangers at the United States’ most popular national parks to get insider recommendations for your visits, whether you have just one ...

Katmai, in southern Alaska, is one of the few places where you can safely get up close and personal with a brown bear while it’s feeding—a life-list event says our 62 Parks Traveler about the 38th ...

The Brooks Camp at Katmai National Park and Preserve will operate at 100% capacity this season for the first time since the pandemic began. Tourists from around the world travel to Katmai in eastern ...

Katmai National Park and Preserve is proposing a fee increase for overnight camping at its Brooks Campground for the 2023 camping season. Increased revenue from campground fees will enable the park to ...

Witness the untamed beauty of Katmai National Park, where powerful brown bears fish for salmon along Alaska’s remote rivers ...

Centennial events at Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve are in full swing, with a speaker series, musical performances and cultural gatherings commemorating the anniversary throughout the ...

Fat Bear Week is back at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The March Madness-style bracket competition pits some of Katmai National Park and Preserve's bulkiest and most beloved brown bears against ...

The lighthearted pre-hibernation competition between the massive bears of Alaska's Katmai Park starts on Oct. 4 Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at ...

A section of road that was improperly built in 2014 is seen in this photo. The 200-foot section was removed this summer to allow restoration of natural conditions and protect two known archaeological ...

Today’s A Minute Away video, “Bears and salmon on Brooks River, Katmai, Alaska,” is a last look at one of my favorite trips in the last few years. In July, photographer Mark Boster and I went by small ...

A confrontation between two bears pushed back the kickoff to the annual competition, which occurs ahead of the bears' hibernation Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been ...