Katmai B&B is not just a room. Your stay is one price that covers the lodging, breakfast every morning, and the round trip out to Brooks Falls and back. There are no roads into Katmai, so we handle the flights, the timing, and the weather. You show up, and we do the rest.
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What you book: your Alaska Airlines flights into and out of King Salmon. That is the only travel you arrange yourself.
Katmai B&B is a riverfront bed & breakfast on the Naknek River in King Salmon, Alaska, the gateway to Katmai National Park and one of the greatest bear-viewing spots in the world. It's your basecamp for bear viewing at Brooks Falls. We're secluded on five acres on the northern shore of the Naknek, just 30 miles from Brooks Falls, and we keep the lodge to six guests so every stay is intimate and personal.
Traveling to Katmai can feel overwhelming. We're a full-service operation: every stay is a complete package with a riverfront room, breakfast, and WiFi, and your days out with us, bear viewing at Brooks Falls or the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes tour, are included in the price, not sold as add-ons.
Every package includes:
There are no roads into Katmai. Three legs get you from Anchorage out to Brooks Falls: a flight to King Salmon, a night at our lodge, and the trip out to the bears. We handle the parts that trip people up. Tap any leg.
More than the room or the logistics, what guests thank us for is simple: a real person answers fast. Ask us when to come, how it works, or what a day at the falls is really like, and you get an answer from someone who makes the trip more than 200 times a season. When the weather turns or a flight slips, someone on the ground here makes the call in real time, so a rough morning doesn't cost you your day with the bears.
“I have never seen hosts work so hard to make sure everyone has the experience they desire.”
Katmai supports over 2,000 brown bears, more than the entire lower 48 combined. At Brooks Falls you watch them fish for salmon from the Park Service viewing platforms. Individual bears come and go, but the same cast works the falls every season: the big males, the mothers and cubs, the subadults, and the fall giants. Tap any card to meet them.
Everything we know about seeing the bears at Brooks Falls: the costs, the timing, and how the logistics fit together, laid out by people who make the trip more than 200 times a season. And if you'd rather not piece it together yourself, that's exactly what we're here for.
"We make the trip out to Brooks Falls more than 200 times a season. We won't promise you a certain number of bears, nobody can. What we promise is that everything we tell you is true, and that we'll do everything we can to get you to the falls."
Most guests reach out a little overwhelmed by the logistics of getting to Brooks Falls, and leave wishing they'd booked more nights. Here's what a few of them said.
★★★★★"We cannot imagine getting to Katmai and experiencing the magic of the bears without the help of this highly capable, very friendly team."
Gregory B.
★★★★★"The B&B was clean and very accommodating. Could not have been happier with our experience, magical!"
Pamela H.
★★★★★"Taking the float plane out to Brooks Falls to watch the brown bears was absolutely surreal, a trip we'll be talking about for years to come."
Rachel S.
Start with our free guide on how to see the bears at Brooks Falls, when to go, what it costs, and how to reach a park with no roads. Then compare rates and packages, browse our riverfront rooms in King Salmon, read our complete guide to King Salmon, Alaska, add the Valley of 10,000 Smokes, or browse the photo gallery. When you're ready, check availability and we'll build the trip around your dates.
Tell us your dates and we'll come back with a plan and a number, in writing, before you commit to anything.
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