Live Webcams in Katmai National Park

Katmai National Park, on the Alaska Peninsula, is where the live webcams in Katmai show the most watched wildlife scene on the planet: brown bears standing in a river as sockeye salmon leap past them. The kinds of spots the Katmai webcams watch are a waterfall on a salmon river and the pools and gravel bars below it, where the bears fish, nap and quarrel. The park keeps Alaska Time, UTC−9, UTC−8 in summer, so a European evening is the Alaskan morning and the falls are busiest in the long light of July, when the run peaks; in September the bears return, heavier, to the lower river, and Fat Bear Week runs in early October. The park was created after Novarupta erupted in 1912, the largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century, and it has no roads: everyone, and every camera, arrives by floatplane.