JimCorbettNational Parkis a
famous national park
of India. This is world
renowned park for the tiger conservation. The park is attributed to the Jim
Corbett who played important role in its establishment—CorbettNational Park is the oldest national park of India.Initially the park was established in 1936 as HaileyNational Park
located in Nainital district of Uttarakhand state.
Corbett National ParkIndia has been a haunt for wildlife lover
tourists for a long time. Tourism activity is only allowed in certain area of Corbett Tiger Researveso that people get a chance to see its fabulous
landscape and the diverse wildlife. In past many years the number of tourist
coming here has increased considerably. Presently, we are seeing the increasing
number of tourists every year in this tiger reserve.
The JimCorbettNational Park is a heaven
for the adventure enthusiast and wildlife adventure lovers. Corbett is India's first national
park which comprises 512.8 km2. area of hills, riverine belts, marshy
depressions, grass lands and large lake and stream. The elevation ranges from
1275 feet to 4,000 feet. Winter nights are very much cold but the days are
sunny. It rains from mid of June to September end.
In CorbettNational ParkDense moist deciduous forest mainly consists of papal, sal, haldu,
rohini (elephant feed) and mango trees, these trees cover almost 71 per cent of
the park. The 10 per cent of the region consists of grasslands. It houses
around 110 tree species, around 50 species of mammals, 580 bird and 25 reptile
species. The rare Royal Bengal tiger of India resides here. The sanctuary
was the first to come under Project Tiger initiative in 1973.
The park is positioned
between 29°25' to 29°39'N latitude and 78°44' to 79°07'E longitude.The standard altitude of the region ranges
between 360 m (1,181 ft) and 1,040 m (3,412 ft). The present area of the
Reserve is 1,301.58 square kilometers (509.09 sq mi) including 520 square kilometers
(200 sq mi) of dense core area and 797.72 square kilometers (308.00 sq mi) of
buffer part. The core area forms the national park while the buffer contains
reserve forests (496.54 square kilometers (191.72 sq mi)).
The temperature may
vary from 8 °C to 31 °C in winter season and some mornings are foggy between
Decembers to January. Summer temperatures likely do not rise above 43 °C.
Rainfall starts from mid June and continues to September ends.
Route: Ramnagar is the
center of operations of Corbett Tiger Reserve. There are two trains are available
from Delhi to
Ramnagar. Also, there is one train from Varanasi
via Lucknow to
Ramnagar. Reach Ramnagar then hire a taxi from Ramnagar railway station to Dhikala
or any wildlife resort.
Ramnagar is also well
connected by road with Lucknow, Nainital, Ranikhet, Haridwar, Dehradun and New Delhi. One can also
drive from Delhi (260 km) via Ghaziabad,
Gajraula, Moradabad,
Kashipur to reach Ramnagar.
