13 Facts About Katmai Wilderness

Katmai Wilderness occupies the Pacific Ocean side of the Alaska Peninsula, opposite Kodiak Island on the Shelikof Strait.

Katmai Wilderness is a stratovolcano, 6,716 feet in height, with a large summit caldera.

Activities at Katmai Wilderness include hiking, backpacking, camping, backcountry skiing, fishing, kayaking, boat tours, and interpretive programs.

Katmai Wilderness is well known for Alaskan brown bears and the sockeye salmon that attract both bears and people.

Katmai Wilderness contains the world's largest protected brown bear population, estimated to number about 2,200.

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Mammal species that inhabit Katmai Wilderness include snowshoe hare, moose, timber wolf, brown bear, coyote, beaver, lynx, wolverine, river otter, mink, Arctic and red fox species, weasel, porcupine, and marten.

Katmai Wilderness Village was the only location within the park where Europeans lived through the mid-19th century, though their numbers were always few.

In 1937 a ranger was finally assigned to Katmai Wilderness, seconded to the monument from Mount McKinley, spending most of June trying to get there and one day in the monument before returning to Mount McKinley.

Katmai Wilderness was to receive a headquarters at King Salmon, a visitor center at Valley Junction in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, ranger stations, campgrounds, modest roads and dock facilities on the lakes.

The study identified 39 site that might become preserves or recreation lands, and it recommended that Katmai Wilderness be expanded somewhat to the west and substantially to the north.

In 1971 Katmai Wilderness finally gained a full-time, on-site park superintendent.

Unlike most ANILCA parks, the legislation for Katmai Wilderness did not grant subsistence hunting access to national park lands, only to the preserve.

Superintendent of Katmai Wilderness is responsible for Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve and Alagnak Wild River.