Alaska Bear Viewing at BearCamp

Alaska Bear Viewing

A note from the president:

Great Alaska Adventures is thrilled to announce that Natural Habitat Adventures, a wildlife-first company that is a leader in sustainable wildlife viewing will be taking over the ownership and stewardship of our incredible Alaska Bear Camp. They are now offering Alaska Bear Viewing trips for the 2022 season and beyond.

Owning Wayne Byers Alaskan homestead, and being able to share it with our guests and the incredible wildlife of Chinitna Bay for nearly 20 years has been an honor. The time is right for our company to move one, and the ability to entrust this one-of-a-kind property into such committed and capable hands has made the decision an easy one for us. We are very grateful.

Thanks to all our amazing guests over the years - you are one of the things that made this the best job in the world. Thanks also, to our incredible staff, who gave so much of themselves to make it all so amazing.

Thanks especially, to my explorer father, whose deep connection with Wayne and vision of adventure created Bear Camp.

And thanks finally to my partner Julie, whose passion, vision, commitment, and style made Bear Camp into the truly one-of-a-kind place it was, that we were all so very proud of.

If you've reached this page looking to book a trip to BearCamp, you're in luck! Just follow the link below to see their offerings for this summer. (Don't delay, as space is incredibly limited, as it was with us!)

https://www.nathab.com/alaska-northern-adventures/lake-clark-bear-viewing-camp/?utm_source=GreatAlaska&utm_medium=referral

Alaska BearCamp is a sustainable Bear Viewing location situated one of a kind, original Alaska homestead property between Mt. Iliamna and Chinitna Bay. We are the only overnight bear viewing location with a raised platform for your comfort and safety. We have also been in the same location for nearly 2 decades, living in concert with the Bears so that our presence is accepted by them. They do not have to change their behavior due to being "chased" by plane operators attempting to get close to the bears in a limited amount of time.

The tents are hi-tech extreme Weather Ports, essentially "Quonset hut" style tents made of extreme PVC coated nylon stretched over a metal skeleton. Made to endure extreme winds and weather, they feature hard wooden doors and floors, cozy beds with full linens, and propane heat and light. While our main bathrooms and showers are in a separate shower house, the tents also have RV-style potties to avoid those evening trips to the bathhouse!

Meals are served in the main dining tent and there are chairs and a small book and video library there as well.

Your thrilling bush plane flight to the camp will fly by the peaks and glaciers of two of Alaska’s most famous volcanoes - Mt. Redoubt and Mt. Illiamna. And, as Alaskan's have been doing for 60 years, land on the beautiful beach directly in front of BearCamp®. This true road less wilderness will become one of the most memorable parts of your vacation. Here's a story about BearCamp.

Our private the camp is perfectly situated between the ocean shore and the sedge grass - critical Wild Alaskan Brown Bear habitat. Perched between the Mountains and the inlet - at the foot of a rich sedge grass meadow the bears have been using to raise their young and ready themselves for the summer's bounty of fat, spawning salmon to entering the streams mid-summer and the site was an original Alaskan homestead, and living remnants of the homestead are everywhere.

This intimate location is so unique that Disney used Alaska BearCamp® as a primary base camp for much of the 2012 season and nearly all of 2013 to film the popular movie “Bears”. Nowhere in Alaska is the bear viewing as consistently productive as our camp, due to the season-long availability of food. In the Spring, sedge grass is waiting for the bears as they emerge from their dens.

The Sedge grass is the perfect feed for the young cubs as they learn the ropes of wilderness life! In July the returning salmon of July and August allows the bears to gorge upon the protein so critical to putting on fat to hold them over the long winter. Our one-of-a-kind camp, with its private, camouflaged viewing platforms allows you to safely view and truly experience North America's Alpha Carnivore.

Please Note: Photography drones are not allowed at BearCamp or inside Lake Clark National Park at any time.

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"We just returned from a three-day trip to Bear Camp. It was absolutely wonderful. The staff at the campsite were very friendly and took great care of us. Excellent meals and wine in the evening. Our guides did everything they could to get us to the best locations for photos. We were fortunate to have the viewing platform for when the bears were up in the stream behind the camp and Dylon and Dennis escorted us to the beach area when the bears had moved toward the bay. We never felt threatened even when the bears came close to us"

Terry Tollefsbol