These state parks are located on Alaska’s largest island, home to the famous Kodiak brown bear.
At 3,670 square miles, Kodiak is Alaska's largest island and the country's second largest (after the Big Island of Hawaii). Scattered in… Type: Landing Page
Home of the Kodiak brown bear, this refuge provides important habitat for wildlife both large and small.
The 1.9-million-acre Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, which covers much of the southern two-thirds of Kodiak Island, plus all of Ban… Type: Landing Page
This world-famous sanctuary is so popular for bear viewing that visitors must enter a lottery to get access.
The McNeil River State Game Sanctuary, just north of Katmai National Park and Preserve on the … Type: Landing Page
Scenic rivers and mountains decorate the backdrop of this protected habitat, home to 48 species of land and marine mammals and 201 species of birds.
Protecting important seabird nesting sites and major salmon spawning rivers, Togiak National Wildlife Refuge extends over 4.7 million acres - an area the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined - from the cold waters of …
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Each summer, large numbers of walruses haul out on the rocky beaches of these islands in Bristol Bay in … Type: Landing Page
Long gone are the days that culture is just stuffed away in a museum. We no longer consider this preservation of cultures (at least, not the only way!). As an Alaska Native, I can tell you that we preserve our cultures by actively sharing, through storytelling, culinary arts, song, dance, and creating and selling artwork.Our Alaska Native cultures are warm and welcoming. We want to be the first…
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With the distinction of the largest state park in the nation, this park in Southwest Alaska is renowned for float trips and fishing.
At 1.6 million acres, Wood-Tikchik State Park is not just Alaska's largest state park, it’s the… Type: Landing Page
This vast, flat wetland and tundra landscape protects a wide variety of birds, mammals, and fish in Southwest Alaska.
Alaska's two largest rivers, the Yukon and the Kuskokwim, form the heart of the 19.2 million-acre Yukon Delta National Wildlife… Type: Landing Page
This preserve contains the land bridge that once connected Asia with North America over 13,000 years ago.Located on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve protects a small remnant of the 1,000-mile-wide grassland that connected Asia and North America during the last Ice Age. The majority of this land bridge, once thousands of miles wide, now lies…
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This glacial wonderland features stunning scenery, incredible wildlife, and ocean adventures.
Kenai Fjords National Park encompasses over 600,000 acres outside of the harbor town of Seward and was created in 1980 to protect some of… Type: Landing Page
