In the 1990s, a retired army officer and his wife found a light-green patch of
Category: Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand
Jim Corbett National Park is India’s oldest national park and one of its most celebrated — a vast, forested landscape of sal trees, grasslands, and river valleys in the Uttarakhand foothills of the Himalayas, home to one of the country’s largest tiger populations and an extraordinary diversity of wildlife. Named after the legendary hunter-turned-conservationist Jim Corbett, whose writings shaped how India understands its wildness, the park rewards those who go beyond the standard jeep safari to walk the forest paths, listen to alarm calls, and experience the Kosi Valley as it has always been: on foot, in silence, paying attention.
On the edge of the Corbett Reserve Forest in the Kumaon foothills, an hour from
Four kilometres along a jungle dirt track, at 4,300 feet above sea level in the
