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Brooks Camp Campground
Brooks Camp Campground is the only established campground in the entire park. It is located in the Brooks Camp area, along the banks of Naknek Lake and the Brooks River.
Plan Around Brooks Camp Campground
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Brooks Camp Campground Details
Brooks Camp Campground is the only established campground in the entire park. It is located in the Brooks Camp area, along the banks of Naknek Lake and the Brooks River. No designated sites are in the campground, simply a 60 person maximum. Make your required reservations in advance and when you get to the campground, pick whichever tent placement you'd like. An electric fence rings the campground to deter bears (they do still get in sometimes). Also at the campground are communal food caches, gear storage, fuel storage, cooking shelters, vault toilets, drinkable water, and fire pits. The campground is open only from May through October and costs $12 per person per night from June through September, and $6 per person per night in May and October. The most common way of getting to this campground is via air taxi. You can also take a power boat from Lake Camp on the western shore of Naknek Lake.
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Nearby Parks Around Brooks Camp Campground
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Nearby Points of Interest Around Brooks Camp Campground
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0.2 mi away
Brooks Camp Visitor Center
The only regular staffed visitor center in Katmai with a bookstore and all the backcountry info you can imagine.
0.2 mi away
Savonoski Loop
This 80-mile loop is one of the most popular inland paddling routes in the park.
0.3 mi away
Katmai National Park
The centerpiece of massive, 7,383-square-mile Katmai National Park is the still-active Mount Katmai stratovolcano and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a 40-mile-long ash flow deposited by an eruption in 1912.
0.3 mi away
Brooks Lodge
Previously a fishing cap, this lodge now overs 16 rustic rooms and a classic Alaskan dining experience.
0.3 mi away
Cultural Site
Katmai National Park is known for its prehistoric native Alaskan campsites, so be sure to check out the Cultural Site at Brooks Camp.
