Jim Corbett National park in India

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