General Information About Corbett Tiger Reserve


Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national parks of the country. Situated in Ramnagar in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand, it was a part of the erstwhile princely state of Tehri Garhwal. Established in 1936 as Hailey National Park, it was renamed as Ramganga National Park in 1954 and again rechristened as Corbett National Park in 1955 after Edward James “Jim” Corbett – the renowned and legendary British hunter and tracker-turned-conservationist, author and naturalist, famous for hunting a large number of man-eating Tigers and Leopards. Under the supervision of Corbett Foundation, three main conservation projects running at Corbett National Park namely Project Tiger, Crocodile Conservation Project and Project Elephant.

Corbett Tiger Reserve experiences temperate weathers with temperature ranging from 25°C to 40°C in summers and from 5°C to 32°C in winters and it rains heavily during monsoons. Though most of the tourism zones are closed for safari during monsoons, visitors can still enjoy the safari in the park during these times in the Jhirna zone, the Sitabani and Kumaria Buffer zones which are open for tourists all-round the year.