Brooks Falls is a roughly six-foot ledge on the Brooks River in Katmai National Park, world-famous for the brown bears that gather to catch leaping sockeye salmon. An elevated boardwalk trail leads about 0.6 miles each way from the trailhead to the viewing platforms.
Its 6 ft drop is taller than about 1% of the 775 waterfalls we track.
The falls are fed by Brooks River. It lies in Lake and Peninsula, Alaska. The site is on public land managed by Katmai National Park & Preserve (NPS).
This is a short hike waterfall: reached by a short trail, generally under about a mile each way. The walk in is brief — comfortable shoes are usually all you need. The walk to the main viewpoint runs about 1.2 miles round trip. The nearest town is King Salmon.
When to go: July (sockeye salmon run). Water volume swings with the seasons here, strongest after snowmelt or rain and lowest in late summer, so check recent streamflow before you go.
