Katmai National Park and Preserve is best known for its 2,000 brown bears. Summer visitors are able to watch bears catch and snag salmon mid-air. Katmai is also home to pristine waterways with abundant fish, a vast wilderness and a rugged coastline. Visitors also have the opportunity to raft, hike the Valley of 10,000 Smokes and kayak in the chain of lakes and rivers known as the Savonski Loop.