Alaska Brown Bear Viewing Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park Brooks River Lodge Accommodation, Alaska King Salmon Fishing Trips and Fishing Lodges. Katmai/Brooks Day Tours from Anchorage. Katmai National Park is located on the northeast coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Among all his diversity, the park boasts the largest population (more than 2.000) of protected brown bears in the world. During the peak of the world's largest sockeye salmon run each July, and during return of the "spawned out" salmon in September - forty to sixty bears congregate in Brooks Camp along the Brooks River, Naknek Lake and the Brooks Lake shorelines. Many visitors are concentrating their activities along Brooks River where brown bear congregate to feed on sockeye salmon as they pass upstream. Two bear viewing platforms are located right above the falls.