Brooks Camp Visitor Center - A Historic View

The Brooks Camp Visitor Center was originally the park's first hard-sided ranger station

Quick Facts

Location:

Brooks Camp, Katmai National Park and Preserve

Significance:

Repurposed historic building

Amenities

9 listed

Gifts/Souvenirs/Books, Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Information, Information - Maps Available, Information - Park Newspaper Available, Information - Ranger/Staff Member Present, Information Kiosk/Bulletin Board, Scenic View/Photo Spot, Wheelchair Accessible

The present-day Brooks Camp Visitor center was originally built as a ranger station. During the summer of 1954, logs were cut, peeled, and placed to dry for use in the following spring at Brooks Camp. By February of 1955, the park ordered building materials from Seattle and arranged for their delivery to King Salmon by a Fish and Wildlife vessel. The building was completed in the summer of 1955.

This was the National Park Service's first permanently built structure in Katmai and its first ranger station, completed thirty-seven years after the monument had been established.