Nature
Alaska Ice and Volcanoes: 2 Live Cameras — Katmai, Juneau
Two cameras in Alaska: the view over Katmai National Park from a 744 m summit, and Nugget Falls beside the Mendenhall Glacier.
What you can see
Two wide Alaskan landforms. In both, the subject is the scale of ice and volcanoes rather than anything human.
Katmai from Dumpling Mountain (Katmai National Park) sits in alpine tundra near the 744-metre summit. The whole of the Brooks River and a wide sweep of Katmai National Park fit in one frame. Below are clear lakes and deep spruce forest; on the horizon, active volcanoes on the edge of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes are steaming.
Mendenhall Glacier and Nugget Falls (Juneau) shows the glacier, Mendenhall Lake and the falls beside it. Mountain goats sometimes appear on the slope above the falls or high on Bullard Mountain. The ones lower down are usually females with kids; males pick higher ground on their own. They live here all year on lichen and grass, and grow a thick winter coat in autumn.
Cameras you can watch now: 2
All 2 are live video. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video
Katmai from Dumpling Mountain
Alaska, Katmai National Park · Nature · Volcano
A camera on the alpine tundra near the summit of Dumpling Mountain, 744 metres up. The whole of the Brooks River and much of the surrounding country is in one frame. Clear lakes and thick spruce forest fill the lowlands, and on the horizon the active volcanoes bordering the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes are steaming.
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Live video
Mendenhall Glacier and Nugget Falls
Alaska, Juneau · Nature
The Mendenhall Glacier and Mendenhall Lake, with Nugget Falls nearby. Mountain goats sometimes appear on the slope above the falls or higher on Mount Bullard: nannies with kids stay lower, billies tend to be alone and pick higher ground. They live here year-round on lichen and vegetation and grow a thick coat every autumn.
When to watch
For both the provider gives no season. Alaskan daylight differs enormously between summer and winter, but we are not going to invent a viewing date here.
Alaska is 17 hours behind Japan (during daylight saving). Local 06:00 is 23:00 in Japan, local noon is 05:00 the next day, and local 18:00 is 11:00. Outside daylight saving the gap is 18 hours, an hour later.
But an Alaskan summer stays light until the middle of the night, so the picture can be bright even if you open it in the Japanese afternoon. In winter the reverse: daylight is very short, and only a narrow window around the Japanese dawn is lit.
If it isn't showing
Both also appear on the United States page. The landform cameras are under Nature and the volcanic ones under Volcano.
On the river in the same national park, Brooks Falls Bears and Salmon. For other wide American views, Wide Views of the US, and the article US national park cameras.
How to pick a time to open them is in Which cameras are in daylight now.
Where to find Alaska Ice and Volcanoes
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- explore.org (Deep links and embeds OK, no image reuse) — Official site
The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.