This year’s Fat Bear Week champion offers a lesson in persistence. Or he’s just a bear that ate a lot of salmon.

Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska offers a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, with active volcanoes, pristine lakes, backcountry hikes, and epic bear sightings.

It is Fat Bear Week in Alaska. The popular competition lets anyone vote on which of the animals is most prepared for winter.

Nights are spent in a modest four-cabin converted crabbing boat called Ursus. Skiffs ferry travelers ashore for twice-daily outings, where it’s common to see half a dozen or more brown bears dotting ...

Patty Salkeld traveled 2,000 miles to Alaska's remote national park to see the brown bears she's been voting for in the annual competition.

The Kraken tough guy is still battling for a fourth line job the final week of training camp, but admittedly met his summer match with a massive grizzly bear he wanted no part of ...

Brook Falls is widely considered to be the bruin-viewing capital of the world, but there’s also a little-known alternative that offers similar scenery and brown bear action, with only a fraction of th ...