We offer full day trips for Alaska brown bear viewing, or multiple day bear viewing trips with overnight lodging at a remote private lodge with luxury cabin. We also offer combo trips that include Birding, halibut fishing, salmon fishing or clam digging.
Bear Watching Alaska
MEET THE CAPTAIN
Captain Mel Erickson has been guiding people on Alaskan adventures since 1989. Our Alaska bear viewing tours to Chinitna Bay in Lake Clark National Park offers some of the best Alaska grizzly bear viewing on the planet. Chinitna Bay is one of the most beautiful places in Alaska & has incredible Alaska bear viewing, and wildlife in their natural habitat. No lines, or timed platforms, no crowds, and we are the only guide service providing waders, & hiking poles, with access by boat to Chintna Bay.
A memorable experience
We can also access coastline & beaches that planes can’t land on. Bear viewing at Chinitna Bay also has a longer season over other bear viewing locations in Alaska with bears being seen in large numbers from mid May into early September. The Alaskan Gamefisher, our 30 foot Alaskan Custom made aluminum boat is built to navigate the shallow bays & land on the beaches of Cook Inlet which has the second largest tides in the world. The vessel has comfortable seating for up to 6 guests. Come Join us on an adventure of a lifetime for the most memorable experience nature has to offer.
Fly in trips by air taxi
We charter some of the best Alaska, bush pilots that depart from Kenai, to accommodate groups that want to fly in. We have 3-4 locations within a 15-60 minute flight to the best bear viewing locations in Alaska. In addition to exploring the Chinitna Bay wilderness, we offer guided bear viewing trips to Crescent lake also in Lake Clark National Park, Wolverine Creek at Big River Lakes, Katmai National Park, Brooks Falls, & Hallo Bay.
Alaska Bear Viewing trips are available Mid May – early September.
Why Choose Us?
- Experience: Captain Mel Erickson has been guiding in Alaska for 33 years, Extensive knowledge of navigating Cook Inlet.
- Dialed in on bear viewing by boat in Chintna Bay: We have the best, & quickest system of getting to, and from the boat to shore. We supply high end chest wader’s to wade to shore, and you won’t get your feet or butt wet riding in a raft like other outfits.
- Why depart from Anchor Point instead of Homer for your Bear Watching trip to Chintna Bay in Lake Clark National Park? Travel distance is only 38 miles and 1 hour 15 minutes by boat from Anchor Point, Homer is 62 miles each way, saving you 48 miles and over 2 hours of travel time round trip.
- Professionally guided bear viewing tours: We do professionally guided bear viewing tours every day, and have been for 8 years now, we know when, where, & how to find the bears. We have never not seen at least 1-2 bears in all our trips, most days we see 10-25 bears.
- Time: We spend more time with the bears than most operators,
- Waders & hiking poles: We supply waders and hiking poles allowing you to get out on the tide flats or crossing streams to get very close to bears digging clams or fishing for salmon, many operators don’t supply waders therefore they can’t get their people up close to bears on the tide flats or cross the stream’s.
- Safety: we know bears, & how to keep you safe while watching bears at very close range, Chintna bay and cook Inlet has extreme tide fluctuation, it takes local knowledge, & skill to navigate these waters and the everchanging extreme weather that Alaska can throw at you. Everyday is different and we have learned over the years how to deal with each situation.
- Photos: Photos on our website are our photos that we or our clients have taken on bear viewing trips with us, they are not stock or stolen pictures. Our information is real and accurately portray our Alaska bear viewing trips.
- Small groups: We keep our groups small with 6 people in most cases.
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