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." ...

Each year, the folks at Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska gift us with battling rotund brown bears, each fattening up before the long sleep of winter hibernation. This is the 10th year.

Many people couldn’t point out Katmai National Park and Preserve on a map, but they’ve probably heard of it burly residents. Each fall, Katmai hosts Fat Bear Week, a beloved celebration of the ...

Here’s what travelers should know about Katmai, the latest national park in USA TODAY’s yearlong series. A cub reaches up toward a sow at Katmai National Park and Preserve.

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.

Fat Bear Week was launched by the National Park Service in 2014 with just a single celebratory day – Fat Bear Tuesday. But the event was so successful that it became a dedicated week in 2015.

Roughly 2,200 brown bears are estimated to live in Katmai National Park and Preserve, which at 4.1 million acres, is larger than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined, Moore notes.

Park story from Katmai National Park & PreserveImagine walking within 20 feet of a Brown Bear, one of the most powerful, amazing examples of “charismatic megafauna” around…and fearlessly dropping to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Katmai National Park and Preserve wants to build a new viewing platform on the Research Bay Overlook Trail. During the summer, a Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes bus tour runs daily.