{"id":100,"date":"2009-10-29T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/?p=100"},"modified":"2013-10-06T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T19:31:33","slug":"katmai-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/100\/katmai-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Katmai National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin:5px 10px 5px 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/katmai\/katmai-bears-l.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/katmai\/katmai-bears-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bears at Brooks River Falls Katmai National Park Picture by Peter Hamel NPS\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"photo-caption-f\"> Bears at Brooks Falls Katmai NP Photo by NPS<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Katmai National Park<\/strong> is a vast land of: lakes, forests, mountains, and marshlands that abound in wildlife. The Alaska brown bear, the world&#8217;s largest carnivore, thrives here, feeding on red salmon that spawn in the lakes and streams. Wild rivers and renowned sport fishing add to the attractions of this subarctic environment. Here, in 1912, Novarupta Volcano erupted violently, forming the ash-filled &#8220;Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes&#8221; where steam rose from countless fumaroles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katmai<\/strong> was proclaimed Katmai National Monument Sept. 24, 1918; and established as Katmai National Park and Preserve December 2, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Total National Park Acreage: 3,674,529, Federal: 3,611,708, Nonfederal: 62,821, Wilderness area: 3,473,000. Total National Preserve Acreage: 418,699, Federal: 405,432, Nonfederal 13,267.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Katmai National Park is located<\/b> in southern Alaska around 320 miles south of Anchorage and is accessible only by boat or plane.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[ad#mr-nw]<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-links1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/katm\/\" >Katmai National Park<\/a> &#8211; NPS.gov Official Site<\/div>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/references\/npindex-09-11.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"References\" width=\"497\" height=\"46\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-right\">[ad#ur-ss]<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"clear:both\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-left-single\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bears at Brooks Falls Katmai NP Photo by NPS Katmai National Park is a vast land of: lakes, forests, mountains, and marshlands that abound in wildlife. The Alaska brown bear, the world&#8217;s largest carnivore, thrives here, feeding on red salmon that spawn in the lakes and streams. Wild rivers and renowned sport fishing add to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,34,42,43,12,44],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-parks","tag-alaska","tag-alaska-national-park","tag-katmai","tag-katmai-national-park","tag-national-park","tag-rivers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}