Bear Viewing in Alaska
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Locations and Rates
Chinitna Bay (full day)
$675/pp 2 person minimum
discounts for groups of 6
Crescent Lake
$750/per person
Big River Lakes
$695/per person
Bear Viewing/Salmon Fishing combo
** $6/per person park fee included in tour costs
*** Fishing licenses are required for those who intend on fishing or clam digging
click on this image to view the Chinitna Bay.
Overnight Trips
Currently overnight trips are not available.
Chinitna Bay, Lake Clark National Park
(early May to September)
We depart our bear viewing tours to Chinitna Bay from Anchor Point via Boat 15 miles north of Homer, Alaska and Travel about 40 miles across Cook Inlet to land on one of several beaches in Lake Clark National Park. We then walk to the area to view the bears in the park.
Our boat ride takes 1.5 hours each way and the scenery along the coast is breathtaking. On most days you will see glaciers, volcanoes, waterfalls, whales, sea birds, bald eagles and of course bears.
Lake Clark National Park is one of the best places in the world to view Alaska brown bears. Most days we will see 20-30 bears.
Lake Clark, has a population of several thousand brown/grizzly bears,compared to only a few hundred grizzly bears in Denali National Park.
Bear viewing trips in Lake Clark National Park is also unique because large numbers of bears gather on the coast around food sources such as clams, sedge grass meadows, and salmon streams.
Lake Clark National Park coast is home to many other animals and it is common to see bald eagles, wolves, foxes, seals, sea lions, puffins, in addition to brown bears. Lake Clark National Park is only accessible by boat or bush plane. Being so remote it is the least visited park in the national park system and offers a true wilderness experience with very few other people,. There are no platforms, time limits, or waiting lines to see the bears and unlike McNeil River there is no lottery to enter to receive a permit to view bears, Landing on a beach in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness among wild brown bears is an experience of a lifetime and of sheer amazement.
- Halibut or salmon fishing can be booked on a seperate day. If you want a combo Bear viewing/salmon fishing trip, you can book our flyout trip out of Kenai to Redoubt Bay & Big River lakes.
- clam digging can be combined with this trip
Crescent Lake, Lake Clark National Park
(Mid July- September)
This Trip will depart Nikiski Alaska, near Kenai via Float plane, for a 40 minute breathtaking flight across Cook Inlet & thru the Chigmit mountains of the Alaska range, flying over Redoubt Volcano, several glaciers, & mountain ridges off your wing tips, Once landing on a large beautiful lake nestled in the mountains, we will then load into a small Jon boat where we will cruise the coast line looking for bears.
The bears come to the shoreline to feed on the salmon. This trip can also be combined with salmon fishing.
Big River Lakes (Wolverine Creek)
If you want a combo bear Viewing / salmon fishing trip this is it. This trip also is accessed via float plane and is a short 15 minute flight from Kenai.
After landing on Big River Lakes we will board a small Jon Boat and run over to a small creek where salmon are congregated we will stay in the boat the entire time waiting for a bear to come out to try to catch a fish, we usually always see bears on this trip but mostly small sub adult cubs that have just been kicked out from mom..
This is a popular location for fly out fishing by air taxis and bear viewers from anchorage so there will be multiple boats, and people around compared to Chintina Bay.