Fat Bear Week 2025 has crowned its winner! On Tuesday, Sept. 30, voting in the 2025 Fat Bear Week competition concluded. The final match-up in the single-elimination, bracket-style contest came down ...

Fat Bear Week is back at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The March Madness-style bracket competition pits some of Katmai National Park and Preserve's bulkiest and most beloved brown bears against ...

Spring is for skinny bears and March Madness basketball. Fall, however, is for fat bears -- and for Katmai National Park & Preserve's annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a ...

Every fall, the internet collectively obsesses over some of Alaska’s chunkiest residents. Featured Video Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week is back, and thousands of people around the world are ...

Fat Bear Week is an annual competition where fans vote for the fattest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The event runs from Sept. 23 to Sept. 30, with daily voting on the explore.org website ...

It's time for everyone's favorite bracket battle — Fat Bear Week. The annual online contest returns to Katmai National Park in Alaska as massive brown bears gorge, bulk up and compete for the internet ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest known as ...

Katmai National Park and Preserve has selected a new design for its annual Brooks Camp bear safety pin, a popular memento given to visitors who complete mandatory “bear school.” This year’s winning ...