Get the Best Bear Viewing in Alaska with Ease

Alaska is been home to three species: the mountain bear, the grizzly or also known as the Alaska brown bear and the biggest ones the polar bear. Indeed, even in Alaska's biggest urban communities you may see a dark or brown colored bear going across the road. What's more, in the far north of Prudhoe Bay, it isn't remarkable to see gigantic polar bears roaming around in search of food. Bears getting some supper is a typical site in Alaska.

As compared to other ways one of the best ways for grizzly bear viewing in Alaska is through Ariel bear viewing by plane. There are many bear viewing charters in Anchorage that offer Ariel bear viewing trips over Cook Inlet that incorporate a bird's-eye view of Redoubt Bay, Katmai National Park, or Lake Clark National Park where many bears are found. Visitors can de-board the plane and can go for an explorative walk or sailing through rivers on a boat to see brown-colored bears in their regular living space. Three outing alternatives, going from 6.5 to 12 hours, are accessible. Book ahead of schedule, as summer reservations fill rapidly.

Katmai Wilderness Lodge, on the distant bank of Alaska's Katmai National Park, offers visitors close and customized guided natural life tours nearby the shores of ensured straights along the Katmai Coast. However bears become the overwhelming focus here, numerous visitors additionally see harbor seals, ocean otters, hawks and an assortment of marine bird life. Different species that may likewise be seen (however less typically) incorporate wolves, moose, red fox, whales, porpoise, ocean lions and stream otters.

The hotel is secluded and has a 12-visitor limit. It offers three-, four-and seven-night comprehensive visit bundles that incorporate roundtrip airfare from Kodiak, agreeable overnight facilities with private washrooms and delectable dinners.

Kodiak Island, the biggest island in Alaska and the second biggest in the United States, is home to an expected 3,500 Kodiak brown colored bears, the biggest brown colored bears discovered anyplace in the state. Detached for over 12,000 years in its island home, this bear has particular species variations and owes its gigantic size to the plenty of fish that fill the streams.

The Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge is gotten to by floatplane or boat, and Alaskan brown bear viewing normal close to any salmon-bearing streams from June all through the mid year. Extra data is accessible at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center.

Bears are normal in Alaska

Guests toward the southeast part of the state can remove a jet boat from Wrangell and visit the Anan Wildlife Observatory to watch dark and brown colored bears fishing 30 feet from the survey stage. The Frozen North Waters offers this six-hour visit that frequently incorporates perspectives on hawks fishing and harbor seals playing. The one-hour ride to the observatory is in quiet, ensured waters.

For polar bear viewing, fly north from Fairbanks to Kaktovik on the Beaufort Sea coast. Warbelow's Air Ventures offers trips during September—the whaling season—and guests can look as polar bears accumulate to eat on the whale bodies. In excess of 80 bears showed up to take care of in one day in September of 2014.

See each of the three bear species at the Alaska Zoo, in Anchorage, or head south of Anchorage around 50 miles to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, where a bear-seeing walkway suspends you over the bear walled in area for close-up perspectives on dark and brown colored bears.

This article is written by Captain Mel Erickson. Captain Mel Erickson owner & head Guide of Bear Viewing in Alaska since 1989.