National Parks In India

Corbett National Park

For a long period of time, Corbett National Park has been a habitat for wildlife lovers and tourists. In the areas of Corbett Tiger Reserve, Tourism is known to be familiarized as tourists get befalling to see elaborated pictures of active wildlife here in Corbett. For the people who want to see tigers, then best point is Corbett National Park.  Name of Jim Corbett National Park is derived from a name of a great hunter named ‘Jim Corbett’ and it is one of the old national park of India.  Corbett national park is very popular wildlife sanctuary of the world as it is popular for tiger conservation.  The tourist those are adventure lover, then this Corbett National Park is the best destination situated in the foothills of Himalayas.  Due to its varied wildlife, this park is accepted among people and is a major role for the project tiger ablution. In 1973, in the project tiger, Corbett National Park become a part of nine tiger prosperity at the barrage. The indigenous width of the Corbett National Park was 323.75 sq. km. and about 197.07 sq. km. was added later in time. Apart from this, about 797.72 sq km width was added to the Corbett National Reserve as absorber breadth.  This breadth involves Ramnagar backwoods and Kalagarh backwoods division.

General Information

State	Uttarakhand
District(s)	Nainital
Established	1936
Nearest city	Ramnagar
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Area	1318.54 sq. km
Elevation	1200 metres (3,970 ft)
Climate
Precipitation	1,040 mm (41 in)
Temperature
Summer	15-25°C
Winter	7-18°C

History

In the past years about 1815-20 at the time of Britishers, these forest of Corbett park is the private property of local rulers of India. After the property transferred to the hand of British, the government paid no attention in maintaining this park. Their main aim is to recover more profit from the jungle and to exploit the natural resources from the jungle. The first wide ranging forest conservation plan to protect the forest was started by Major Ramsay in year 1858.  He ensured the community that by the year 1896 the condition of the forest start to improve and his orders were also followed strictly by the government. In the lower Patlidun Valley, there was strict banned on farming in year 1861-62.  Now by the later time, department of forest understood the responsibility of forest in 1868 and they declared forest reservation under the forest Act in 1879.  The United Province National park Act was established in year 1936, and then after this Act was enforced, this reserved forest turned into India’s first national park.  The field of wildlife reservation came in existence in year 1973 and this year became a landmark in this field. The world’s most biggest and prestigious project, PROJECT TIGER, was launched by the perfectionist of wild life for environmental conservation in this year.

Best Time to Visit

The best time to visit this park is from June to November especially before and after heavy monsoon.

• To enjoy the scenic beauty and spotting animals, then month of November to June is best time.
• For downhill region sight seeing, then months of July to October is good.

Distance from – Corbett National Park

Meerut:212km

Nainital:66km

Delhi: 258km

Lucknow:450km

How to get there

To visit the Corbett National park, Patanagar airport is the nearest airport. It is about a 50 km far from the Corbett national park and it is a domestic airport. One can get a cab to reach this park with a charge of about Rs 1000 for distance from airport to Corbett.  New Delhi is nearest international airport and about 260 km from the Corbett and it is also connected to the other major cities.

Airports near Corbett National Park	Type	Aerial Distance
Jolly Grant Airport, Dehradun (DED)	Domestic	130 km
Indira Gandhi Intl Airport, Delhi (DEL)	International	215 km
Shimla Airport (SLV)	Domestic	267 km
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Intl Airport, Kolkata (CCU)	International	1310 km

Things to Do in – Corbett National Park

The most common things to do in Jim Corbett National Park is jeep or elephant safari. This park also includes forests of Sal and deciduous.  There is variety of wild life that includes sambhar, chital, hog deer, antelope and various other animals. In the most popular Ramganga reservoir in this park, one can also enjoy bird watching and angling.  There are about 600 species of birds in this reservoir. One can also visit Ranikhet and Sat tal near this national park for fun and holidays.  In the this Corbett National park, one can get a lifetime experience and so one has to come and live theirs.

Accommodation

There is a luxurious hotel situated in the Corbett Park itself. This resort offers perfect facilities and also peaceful environment. There are about 35 luxurious cottages in this Corbett National Park with excellent furnishing and built.  All cottages are full of air conditions.  They provide excellent services to the tourist so that they enjoying their stay when they visited the park.  There are various other facilities that this park offered such as in house restaurant, car parking, laundry, and swimming pool and others.

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Weather

There is a moderate climate in the Corbett National Park. During the monsoon rainy season, this park became closed for the months of mid June to mid November.

• Summers (March to May), there is about high temperature of 40°C with average temperature of 30 °C.  This season is good for the tourist who wants to visit this park.
• Monsoons (June to September), in this season, there is heavy rainfall and also light rainfall throughout the year.  To enjoy the foothills, monsoon is very good season.
• Winters (December to February), there is about temperature of 5 °C to 30 °C.  Morning during the winters are generally foggy.

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