• The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes at Sunset, from the Griggs Visitor Center

    Katmai

    National Park & Preserve Alaska

Lakes & Ponds

Major lakes associated with Katmai National Park include Naknek, Grosvenor, Coville, Brooks, Idavain, Kulik, Nonvianuk, Hammersly, Murray, Dakavak, Katmai, Kaguyak, and several unnamed lakes. Water quality in all of these lakes and rivers remains essentially unaltered by man. Some bodies of water are heavily silted with glacial outwash sediments or volcanic ash. Others contain clear, unsilted water. Water levels in the larger lakes may vary seasonally by as many as seven feet.

Lakes in Katmai National Preserve include Spectacle, Kukaklek, Mirror, and Nonvianuk.

Did You Know?

Brooks Camp Visitor Center

The bear orientation room in the Brooks Camp Visitor Center is the original park service building dating back to 1955.