Established in 1936 as India’s first national park, Corbett is famous for its wide varied of wildlife and its beautiful location in the foothills of the Himalaya by the Ramganga River. With the recent inclusion of the Sonanadi wildlife sanctuary to the west, Corbett has grown from 520 to 1318 sq km. It may seem incongruous for a national park to be named after a famous British hunter- Jim Corbett is best known for his book The Man-Eaters of Kumaon. More commonly seen wildlife includes the wild elephant, langur monkey, rhesus macaque, peacock, and several types of deer including chital, sambars, hog deer and barking deer. There are also crocodiles, the gharial, monitor lizards, wild boars and jackals. Corbett is also a bird-watcher’s paradise, and since the creation of the Kalagarh Dam on the Ramganga River, large numbers of waterfowl have been attracted here.
Corbett is open from mid- November to mid- June.