Types of Alaska Bear Tours

Alaska bear watching trips will be either by chartered, tour or privately owned and operated bus, car, ferry, rail or plane, travel service providers.  Depending on the location you choose, some remote areas in Alaska can only be reached by a flight or ferry-ride! If the great outdoors and roughing it is your chosen fancy, then there are also lots of hiking, camping and hunting options available to you as well,  ranging from campsites, public use and private cabins, wildlife lodges, hotels and local inns. Something catering to every taste and fancy is indeed available.  There are many options for the avid or prospective bear-watcher. Not only as far as the accommodations and local attractions, activities and events are concerned, but also the bear watching itself. Lots of operators, both seasoned and new-comers, large and small, cater to the needs, demands, expectations and travel-dollars of diverse consumers and travelers, for specialized and  guided wild-life watching,  scientific study, tracking and or hunting by permit.

Many Fly-and-fish charters tours include flights, time to watch bears feeding on spawning wild salmon  in the summer months, in locations like Anan Creek on the road-less mainland southeast of Wrangell, Pack Creek on Admiralty Island west of Juneau and Creek near Hyder, northeast of Ketchikan on the Portland Canal and Brooks river.

Here, wild Alaskan bears have become accustomed to the presence of humans,  co-existing and not fearing their presence, intrusion or ‘voyeurism’. This remains the best way to view brown, black and polar bears up North, in their natural perfect habitat! There are many prime and premium spots to do so. We name but a few: Admiralty Island, Katmai National Park, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge and McNeil River State Game Sanctuary. At most of these locations, observers are provided with great and generally speaking safe, close-up looks at bears, who sometimes can weigh even more than 1,000 pounds as they feed on the salmon heading upstream, as they go about their natural movement, foraging and feeding, caring and fostering their young cubs etc.

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