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Anne Schlitt
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Katmai, Alaska
For true loners, Katmai tempts with a raw, isolated beauty and holds out the promise of a hardcore wilderness experience. 
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Studded with active volcanoes, frozen with glaciers, capped with mountains, and rich with shoreline, Katmai is reachable only by plane. Humans have lived here for millennia, and the park has the remains of 9,000-year-old nomadic hunters' camps and prehistoric dwellings to prove it.
Katmai attracts serious sportfishers, and Bristol Bay is acknowledged as one of the premier freshwater destinations. Look for rainbow trout, char, grayling, pike, and five species of Pacific salmon. The ferocious, toothy pike (over 700 sharp teeth!) offers a particularly good fight. If salmon is more your speed, the world's largest sockeye salmon run draws bears—and plenty of humans to watch them feast—to the Brooks River each July.
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