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Oldest national parks in India

Kaziranga was reserved in 1905 for the last few dozen one-horned rhinoceroses of Assam. India's first national park, and the first in mainland Asia, was Hailey National Park, created in 1936 in the Kumaon foothills and renamed after Jim Corbett in 1957. Kanha followed in 1955 and Gir in 1965. Most Indian parks date from after the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 and Project Tiger, launched at Corbett the following year.

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1 Kaziranga National Park India 1905
2 Jim Corbett National Park India 1936
3 Kanha National Park India 1955
4 Gir National Park India 1965
5 Sanjay Gandhi National Park India 1969
6 Sultanpur National Park India 1972
7 Bannerghatta National Park India 1974
8 Bandipur National Park India 1974
9 Khangchendzonga National Park India 1977
10 Eravikulam National Park India 1978

Kaziranga National Park

Assam, India

Kaziranga lies on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in the state of Assam, in the north-east of India, and it is the…

1 ticket or tour

Jim Corbett National Park

Uttarakhand, India

Corbett is India's oldest tiger reserve, five to six hours from Delhi in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand,…

16 tickets & tours

Kanha National Park

Madhya Pradesh, India

Kanha, in the Maikal hills of Madhya Pradesh, in the very centre of India, is by common consent the most beautiful and…

1 ticket or tour

Gir National Park

Gujarat, India

Gir, in the Saurashtra peninsula of the Indian state of Gujarat, is the only place on earth where the Asiatic lion…

4 tickets & tours

Sanjay Gandhi National Park

Maharashtra, India

Sanjay Gandhi National Park is a forest of more than a hundred square kilometres lying entirely within the municipal…

3 tickets & tours

Sultanpur National Park

Haryana, India

Sultanpur is a small bird sanctuary round a shallow lake on the plains of Haryana, fifteen kilometres beyond the office…

2 tickets & tours

Bannerghatta National Park

Karnataka, India

Bannerghatta lies twenty-two kilometres south of the centre of Bangalore, the technology capital of India, an hour to…

2 tickets & tours

Bandipur National Park

Karnataka, India

Bandipur is one of the best-known tiger reserves of southern India, in the state of Karnataka at the point where it…

2 tickets & tours

Eravikulam National Park

Kerala, India

Eravikulam is a park of high, rolling grasslands in the Western Ghats of Kerala, in the south of India, above the…

No online ticket

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