Jim Corbett National Park is 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—Corbett National Park is the oldest national park of India. Initially the park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park located in Nainital district of Uttarakhand state.
Corbett National Park India has been a haunt for wildlife lover tourists for a long time. Tourism activity is only allowed in certain area of Corbett Tiger Reserve so 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.
The Jim Corbett National Park is a heaven for the adventure enthusiast and wildlife adventure lovers. Corbett is India's first national park which comprises 512.8 km 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.
Dense 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.
Best Time to Visit: November to Mid-June.