Plan your visit
Reservations, directions, and everything you need before you arrive — in as few clicks as possible.
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Find your trail
Every route surveyed with distance, climb, and difficulty — filter on the full map to match your fitness and your afternoon.
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Snow View Ridge Walk
Mallital → Sherwani slope → Snow View point (or ride the aerial ropeway up, walk down)
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Raj-era walking tour of Mallital
Two hours through the hill station’s 1840s core — the church, the library, the boat house club.ST. JOHN’S GATE · 10 AM · ₹350
Stay by the lake
Verified cottages, homestays, and heritage bungalows listed by local hosts — book direct with no platform fees.
Boathouse Cottage
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Lake view Kilbury Birder’s Hut
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Forest edge Ayarpatta Raj Bungalow
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Lake conditions, trail closures, weather advisories, and event traffic — published by rangers in real time and delivered by email, SMS, or push. Choose only the topics you care about.
What's on
Festivals, ranger walks, and lake regattas across the district. Community groups can submit events for approval.
Nanda Devi Mahotsav
The district’s biggest week — procession to Naina Devi temple, craft mela on the flats, evening ragas by the lake.
Sunrise birding walk — Pangot
Ranger-led walk through Kilbury forest; 580 recorded species and counting. Binoculars provided. 20 places.
Raj-era walking tour of Mallital
Two hours through the hill station’s 1840s core — the church, the library, the boat house club.
Naini Lake autumn regatta
Yacht club open day: crew a heritage dinghy or watch the finals from Thandi Sadak with chai in hand.
Historic sites
A hill station founded generations ago, temples centuries older, and the homes of local legends.

Naina Devi Temple
Lakeside shakti peetha rebuilt after the 1880 landslip; the lake and the town both take its name.

St. John in the Wilderness
Neo-Gothic church of 1844 in a deodar grove, with memorials to the 1880 landslip victims.

Gurney House
Jim Corbett’s childhood home, kept as he left it — trophies, letters, and first editions of Man-Eaters of Kumaon.

Governor’s House (Raj Bhawan)
1899 Victorian-Gothic estate modelled on Buckingham Palace’s plan; guided tours on open days.