Flightseeing Tours

with Rust’s Flying Service

REDOUBT BAY BEAR VIEWING

Available June 15 – August 31, 2024

A natural history day tour with the opportunity to view Alaska’s brown and black bears in their natural habitat. Fly seaplane southwest of Anchorage to the Redoubt Bay Lodge, located lakeside near the entrance of Lake Clark Wilderness Preserve. One there, guests receive an orientation on the bears and their environment from a bear expert. Then it’s off by boat to bear country! Your guide will assist in looking for bears fishing for salmon along the shoreline. Enjoy a chef prepared lunch back at the day lodge.

 

TOUR PRICE: $1,025

This 6.5-hour tour includes:

  • Round-trip flight from Anchorage to Redoubt Bay Lodge
  • Bear orientation and protection
  • Guided bear viewing by boat
  • Lunch

CALL TO BOOK: 800.544.0552

CHINITNA BAY BEAR VIEWING

Available May 16 – August 31, 2024

Located on the southern end of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Chinitna Bay is home to an abundant brown bear population that come to the bay to feed on the protein rich sedge grasses, copious clams and fish the late summer salmon runs.  Listen as your expert guide shares tales of the resident bears and their families. You’ll be guided by foot and 4WD vehicle to where the brown bears are most active. Witness these magnificent animals digging for clams, sunning on the beach or feeding in the meadow. You’ll be amazed at the shear mass of the male brown bear and fall in love with the cubs as they wrestle and play. 

 

TOUR PRICE: $1,076

This 6-hour tour includes:

  • Round-trip flight from Anchorage to Chinitna Bay
  • Bear orientation and protection
  • Guided bear viewing from beach on foot and/or 4wd vehicle with naturalist guide
  • Lunch

CALL TO BOOK: 800.544.0552

KATMAI NATIONAL PARK BEAR VIEWING

Available June 25 – July 31, 2024

Your fly-out Katmai Bear Viewing adventure takes you to Brooks Falls, where three bear viewing platforms connected by elevated boardwalks allow for close, unobstructed and extraordinary bear viewing in Katmai National Park and Preserve. In July, lured by spawning salmon, as many as fifty bears can be seen at once along the 1.5 mile Brooks River. While the Katmai bear viewing at Brooks Falls is self-guided, Katmai National Park Rangers provide an initial briefing upon arrival and are available throughout the park for questions. 

 

TOUR PRICE: $1,364

This 10-hour tour includes:

  • Round-trip flight from Anchorage to Katmai National Park
  • Bear orientation and protection
  • Bear viewing at Brooks Falls
  • Lunch

CALL TO BOOK: 800.544.0552

LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK BEAR VIEWING

Available July 15 – September 20, 2024

Depart from Lake Hood Sea Plane Harbor in Anchorage and fly over Cook Inlet and the tundra-covered hills of the western Alaska. Watch for the Chigmit Mountains and two active volcanoes before landing in Crescent Lake, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. Situated at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is an epitome of the Alaska wilderness landscape. At four million acres, the Park encompasses volcanoes, jagged mountains, glaciers, wild rivers, waterfalls and diverse Alaska wildlife populations.

 

TOUR PRICE: $1,243

This 10-12 hours tour includes:

  • Round-trip flight from Anchorage to Lake Clark
  • Bear orientation and protection
  • Bear viewing 
  • Homemade lunch in national park at remote lodge

CALL TO BOOK: 800.544.0552