Adventures

Numerous opportunities for wildlife viewing, day hiking, photography, and wingshooting may be combined with your fishing adventure. For sportfishers, there is world-class fishing for rainbow and lake trout, char, grayling and several varieties of Pacific salmon. April through September the area lakes and rivers provide world class trout and salmon fishing. For hunters, Caribou, Alaska brown bear and moose are available mid-August through September throughout the Region.

Other wildlife include beaver, moose, caribou, wolves, wolverine, lynx, red squirrel, snowshoe rabbit, mice and voles. Katmai also is known for tundra swans, several types of ducks, geese, ptarmigan, spruce grouse, osprey, gulls and migratory shorebirds, plus warblers, ravens, magpies and a large population of bald eagles.

King Salmon is also the gateway to Katmai National Park and Preserve. Recreation within the park includes canoeing, rafting, sportfishing, wildlife viewing, day hiking and backpacking.

More adventures accessible from King Salmon include a trip to The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, (a 40-square-mile area onto which pyroclastic ash flow was deposited in June 1912 with the eruption of Novarupta, the most explosive and voluminous volcanic event of the 20th century), Alaska Peninsula-Becharof National Wildlife Refuge and large lakes on the Alaska Peninsula: Naknek, Illiamna, Becharof and Ugashik.

King Salmon joins Naknek and South Naknek in July to celebrate Fishtival, a festival centered around its large harvest of fish from Bristol Bay and its tributaries. Then in February or March comes Winterfest, with a bazaar, basketball and volleyball competition and sled dog races.

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