Lansdowne was originally a popular hill station with the British. The Lansdowne was founded by ‘Lord Lasndowne’ in 1887 A.D., thus the place has been named after him. Attracted by its salubrious climate and natural beauty they established a cantonment here. The famous Garhwal rifles of the Indian Army also has its command office here.
Lansdowne is situated at an altitude of 6000 mtrs., Enroute Kotdwar – Pauri road, 45 km. from Kotdwar. Surrounded by thick oak and blue pine forest, it is a very charming place for a quiet holiday as it is devoid of the usual hustle and bustle of hill stations.
History
Originally known as, Kaludanda, after Kalun (Black) and Danda (Hill) in local language, Lansdowne was founded and named after then Viceroy of India, Lord Lansdowne in 1887, and by 1901 it had a population of 3943 . Lansdowne was developed by the British for catering for the Recruits Training center of the Garhwal Rifles. Lansdowne was a major place of the activities of freedom fighters from British Garhwal during British period. Nowadays, the famous Garhwal Rifles of the Indian Army has its command office here .
Geography
Lansdowne is located at 29°50′N 78°41′E / 29.83, 78.68. It has an average elevation of 1,400 metres (4,593 feet). It is situated en route Kotdwara-Pauri road. Lansdowne is 81 km from Pauri and about 250 km from Delhi.
It is the nearest hill station from Delhi and is approachable by either Road or Train from Delhi. The nearest railway station is Kotdwara at a distance of 41 km. The nearest airport is Jolly Grant Airport, near Dehradun at a distance of 152 km via Kotdwara-Haridwar road.
Get in
Lansdowne in on the route from Kotdwar to Pauri. Kotdwar is the nearest railway station. Buses and taxis are available at the Kotdwar railway station. Having your own vehicle will enable you to easily visit nearby towns and temples.
See
- Santoshi Mata Temple
- Tiffin Top – a view point
- Snow View – a view point
- Garhwal Rifles Museum
- The War Memorial at the Parade Ground of the Garhwal Rifles Center is an attraction for the visitors
- Bhulla Taal
- St. Mary’s Church.
- Bhairav Garhi temple
- Annual ‘Sharadotsav’ (Festival of Autumn) is also organized at this hill station during autumn season.
Do
Travel to…
- Jwalpa Devi (47 km)
- Durga Devi temple (24 km)
- Tarkeshwar Mahadev (30 km)
- Karnva Ashram (14 km) – where Shakuntala is said to have given birth to Raja Bharat
hi this is butiful place and iam also uttarkhandi my village name is badsu patii mwalsu jila chuan kuout pdui ghawal
it’s so beautiful.I wish i could be there.
I see all these points… really wonderfull…..
Hi!!!!!!!!!!
Its really too quite.
I always love nature;so itsvery beautiful.
Thank you,
Anjali
wonderful,amazing,…..
i m unable to descibe my feeling by seeing this..!
beautyful image
realy beautiful
rajesh
Uttara kannada
Its superb, its my place too. Very nice
it’s so beautiful.. my heart says to visit that place at once in a life time
Hi Riya,
All of pics are so,,,,,,,,, beautiful, I like Because i am very intrested in nature,,,,,,,
hi,
There is no words to tell. just watch….
very nice.
Mera Bharat Mahan,
Though we have such a marvelous places in India itself why people should go out to search something like this.
Great photographs
Thanks
Milan
it is very beautiful………..location i like this place
Thanks
Gunugu l
realy so beautiful place
i love this…Because My Friend is also From Uttrakhanda
very beatiful and wonderful. everyone should visit there.
how to reach there
sunil bahrain
First of all i’d like to say UTTARAKHAND IS DEVBHOOMI…
THIS IS IS NOT BECAUSE I BELONGS TO THIS STATE
BUT BECAUSE OF
Each N Every Place here is Awesome, Amazing , Wonderful.
Either its HARIDWAR, RISHIKESH, DEHRADUN, NAINITAAL AND SO OWN…..
Beautiful place indeed….and awsome photographs..;thanjs for sharing…
I have gone very near to Lansdowne…but could not visit the place…seeing the pictures I will make it sure to visit Lansdowne at the earliest….
beautiful,.enjoyedverymuch.
thanks
good pics.
it’s a gr8 place.
just wonderfull
Really gr8!!!!!!!!
When I went there it was a Big surprise for me . I liked it very much: not crowed : just you and natural Untouched beauty and peace .
beautiful in the stills, just added another destination in my list…
anyway…hope the trip turns out to be as good as it seems here on paper…
Uttrakhand simply called haven
I am also Uttarakhandi, My village name is Bhayansu and POst office is Devikhal
Distric Pauri Garhwal
I love Uttarkhand. I have visited it twice over last five years. It is one of the most beautiful and peaceful places I have been to. I travelled with my family and the biggest problem was finding clean toilet facilities on the route. May the department of tourism may invest in such facilities.
one of the few untouched and unspoilt hill beauties in North.
it welcomes oneself with a cozy small market , vert non-commercial people and excellent natural locales
I love travel. But now for age I can not visit . But Thank you for all thease photo. Rally all are nice and beautiful. I can not express . I can feel only .
LOVE NATURE .NATURE WILL SHOW HER BEAUTY .
Friends
I have seen quite a few places in the Garhwal region. viz. Uttarkashi, Dodital, Aguada during my school and college days and frankly I have not visited any other place outside our Motherland for a visit. My personnel opinion is that it is the best places for a visit by the persons of any age groups, one can do trekking, Mountaineering or enroll them at the NIM – Uttarkashi for the basic and advanced Mountaineering courses or for the rock climbing courses. It is a place where POLLUTION has still not creeped in. Wish it remains the same.
its very very beautiful place……………………..
ye us upar wale ki khubsoorti hai.
Friends
I am from lansdown and its true, you will get virgin nature waiting to be explored. such a beutiful place exist in India and even we ar goin west to find same
very nice place
i love my india And my Uttranchal
hi vandana ………………………………………… for you
vikas frome lansdowne uttrakhand
this is the real heaven on the earth every one should visit this place once in the life.
hi
my dad served in Lansdowne. i had been there during my school holidays way back in 1962. it was a thrilling experience to walk n explore the beautiful place. i couldnt get to go there again. but seeing the photos in this site, as poet william wordsworth said those happy days came floating my in my minds eye & i relived them again
its beautiful would love to live here,any land available….
this is one beautiful place in earth
very beautiful place ,i want to visit this place with my friends.
very nice lansdowne i am born lansdowne
hai i also belonge to uttrakhand it is really beautiful place i love uttarakhand very much.
I am manjit,and I have done my degree,in Jahrikhal,Near by lansdowne,and this my dream Place,and still
i am missing my collegedays,and my First Love,by the grace of god now I am Living in Germany,From Last
10 years, and till today i am missing Lansdowne,its very nice place,and missing my college friends, My Hearts is still There…………………………………………..
Hai Babbli (surekha)————————————————,for u manjit,still u R in my Heart,like lansdowne, till today i hav not forget anything, and i am living too far from u and my lansdowne,,and my friends who living in Lansdown Sohan Lal.,—-and I am living in germany, and my Classfelows,
LANSDOWN IS MADE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE & LOVE THE NATURE. NOT FOR OTHERS WHO ARE UNABLE TO LEAVE EVEN SINGLE WORD IN APPRAISAL OF QUEEN OF HIMALAYA.
Mera dandi kanthiyu ka muluk jelu, basant ritu ma jeyi…………….
I am an engineer(IIT Roorkee), recently retired as Vice President from a technology company. I am looking at a place where I can start my second inning. I wish to work for children education and women empowerment. Hills is my first love.Is there a place(village) nearby Lansdowne where I could think of making a place to live and work for above mentioned cause. If you know one such place please leave your comments in these columns.Thanks!
I m also belongs from Uttrakhand gram Ranswa patii mwalsu po junkshyakhal.
lansdowne is really a wonder…really untouched n peaceful..i m from pauri garwal n live in delhi and when i went there, it was really a thrilling xprnce for me..and i told my frnds to visit once there…for those who live in delhi, if they hv only 3 free days then they must go there…amazing..it feels nice that i belong to such a beauty..
Why d’ont we pramote these places for tourism . It help Uttrakhand to grow .
Hi all
I am going to visit this place in next weekend. Looks like awesome place to visit for 3-4 days.I hope it remains awesome. Any suggestions for this, Please add in..
Very nice place to visit.
i love lansdwon & i love garhwal raifle centre
may name is gopal bisht my village name sinala po-dhabkhal distt. pauri garhwal uttrakhand
mera uttrakhand mahan
I love Lansdowne, its nature, its beauty and above all the people of lansdowne. I married with a girl of lansdowne and after that I used to visit lansdowne every year without fail and whenever I go there, I don’t forget to take hundreds of pics.
Nice Place, I love Lansidown especially Jungle Resort (Retreat Anand) best of luck 2 all, we r visiting soon thanx
We are planning a visit this week. Feel more enthused by this feed.
We are planning a visit this week and feel more enthused with this feed.
-R. Khanna
its realy a cool ,calm , alone ,beautiful place .Must see….. and feel ..
Hi all
i have studied my graducation from Degree college Lansdowne that place is as like as heaven in the earth .
vry nice place to vist …….
mera maam Bhupendra Bist (Gudda )villge ghotla
jai hind
i love tadkeswer maha dev…….BHUPPI BISHT.Village ghotla patti bichla badal pur
I am a nature lover must say this place is realy beautiful
I love Nature, the fotos are beautiful….keep continuing…
Thanks
Beautiful !
very beautiful place ,i want to visit this place with my friends.
its realy a cool ,calm , alone ,beautiful place .Must see….. and feel ..
realy beautiful
REAILLY A BEAUUTIFUL SEENS
realy god gift
I vistd so mny places in gurwal himalayas . but unfortunately can cot vist this place
but all the photos are beatiful.
seeing this
i recollect the words
that this is heaven on earty
my UTTATAKHAND co citizens of this lovely country
have to be very fortunate to be born there
inspite of the fact we are from south india
i really love and pray the almighty to be born in north
at leat in next life to enjoy this beauty life long
Very nice place
very nice tourist place.
Very good snaps………
First thanks for nice photographs of Lansdowne & tarkeshwar mahadev,
it is really very beautiful
very beauti full place in uttarakhand
Thnx for sharing the nature beauty……
hi wonderful pics please keep sending me
I m also belongs from Uttrakhand village pali (pokhra block)
really beautiful place . THANKS (Teka Bhaji)
i like this place very much
I love Uttarkhand. I have visited it twice over last two years. It is one of the most beautiful and peaceful places I have been to. I travelled with my family and the biggest problem was finding clean toilet facilities on the route. May the department of tourism may invest in such facilities.
Hi this is realy beautiful.
Thank you
Leela
I AM UNABLE TO DESCRIBE MY FEELING BY SEEING THIS NICE PLACE I LOVE NICE AND ALONE PLACE I LOVE LANSIDOWN ESPECIALLY JUNGLE REALLLY COOL,CALM AND BEAUTIFULL PLACE
Indeed this heaven on this planet, specially Indian Region, superb, fantastic.
Meru Uttarakhand.
Am from Manipur. Lansdowne is definitely a dream destination and would visit very soon.
its nice
a very nice picture.realy heaven of earth.
really worth watching
really nice place..it’s really cool
best collected
very nice place.
nice
Hi! i also belongs to uttarakhand. Its a cool & claim place. i am also planning to visit lansdowne very soon.
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GARDEN HEE GARDEN
HAR TARAF GARDEN HEE GARDEN BUS DEKHTATY CHALAY JAOW
WOW VERY NICE PLACE
Serenity..Peace..a lovely place just to comtemplate..Many Thanks!!
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Nice Place Lansdowne my village is just before 15 KM TollBaar(Basyani)i done my graduation from Lansdowne i love this place……….
To reach lansdowne, one has to take a bus to Kotdwara first from Kashmiri Gate Bus Station (Delhi)which is a 6 hour run and from Kotdwara, its just a 1.5 hour road journey.
It is a beautiful & serene place.
I visited with my family 5 years ago. Itis more of an Army cantt. Natural beauty is always soothing to watch.
it is beautifully place in India. I was visited over there Kedarnath & badrinath on 2008 in may.
i have no world to explain of there beauity
very nice beautiful
I have gone throgh Lansdown Pics…….These are really beautiful…….
Tiffin Top i heard about it its cool place. Church is also there
We guis are deciding to visit this place very shortly…
I Love nature.
Aap ki choice badi aachhi hai, photos dekhkar pata chala k Uttarakhand ko devbhumi kyu kahate hai
hi this amizing and very beuatyful and its information knowledge of our country ……
I have been fortunate to visit Lansdowne. It is indeed a beautiful, serene small little town. Highly recommended to spend a quite, cosy holiday.
Very very nice ya
i love you no words
pituers r very good
you taste is so good
it is a very nice place. i wish i could be there with my whole family.
masyaAllah.. so beautiful. i like it very much 🙂
Cant believe i visited heaven on earth on the internet;i m coming very soon.
it so beatiful and my dream
it’s wonderful place in india
I FEEL PROUD THAT ……….ITS M VILLAGE CUZ I FEEL THAT IF THERE IS HEAVEN ON EARTH THEN THIS WILL BE HERE ONLY IN MY VILLAGE PARSULHA..WHICH IS VERY NEAR TO LANSIDOWN(HEAVEN)_…………ITS A PLACE WHICH EVERY1 SHOULD VISIT ATLEAST 1CE……….
YA TRUELY A WONDERFUL PLACE IN INDIA…….
very grate beautiful place
Stayed in Lansdowne from 1973 to 1977. studied in KEndriya Vidhyalaya. Lived in Bunglow number 14. Can any one describe Heaven better!!!!!
it is wanderful,peacefully place
lansedown is very beautiful place.
Where would u find peace on earth ? Visit Uttarakhand & unlock this answer ! One of the most beautiful and peaceful places in India. Warm people cool places, incredible India, extremely incredible Garhwal. What a bizarre! isn’t it ? In spite of being from heaven, forced to survive in an urbanized jungle ‘Delhi’. I live with a hope somewhere in my heart that someday I will get an opportunity to pack my bag back to my hometown forever.
love you ‘kaludanda’…….i miss the wonderful place,lovely friends and people………
I went to there before some days It is real beautiful place in world
i feel proud to be born in this place ……..
i request to visit this place in Winters especially…..
Am a Garhwali. Re-located to our century old heritage family bunglow
‘Prem Sadan’ on Mall Road, Lansdowne Cantonment 2 years ago after spending 3 decades in the metros/cities. Its lovely out here– heaven on earth indeed ! Am a Kathak Dancer and take the dance/hobby class at Army Public School in Lansdowne.You may come to our place.
Neera
wow a wonderful place i love it muuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I am also Uttarakhandi, My village name is sindhikhal
Distric Pauri Garhwal
lansdowne is very beautifull place
studied at lansdowne kv its a beautiful hill station to be visited i miss the wonderful place lovely people miss u my old school friends very shortly visit you
Neera,
Need your advice. I would like to stay in uttarakhand but not sure where. There was an add on a project called Landsdowne One. They were selling a plot of 200 Sq Yard for INR 6.5 lacs. Do you know anything about this project in your town?
a very beautiful panaromic place. a cool. calm & pure environment. a few numbers of hotels only there so book in advance or stay at kotdwara & take conveyance from there in early morning(41 km from kotdwara)
I LOVE THIS PLACE AND I LIKE IT.ALL PICS ARE EXCELLENT.
my luv………. Lansdowne……….
I LOVE MY UTTRAKHAND.
very good hill staition
I am keen to settle in such a place after my retirement ( which is due by 2013 ) with my wife,if land property/ small cottage with some land is available to me for puchase.
If such kind of property anybody would like sell, may contact me at the earliest through mail.
lansdowne is very beautiful town…………. m from lansdowne only. there many more place to c but……… only few people can go dere coz its very danzours……….. i love my city
I am a senior citizen and very keen to settle in Landsdowne.If any land property(bungalow),a small cottage or a piece of land is available with anybody,please contact me.Other possibilities like renting and/or long lease could also be considered.
I love Uttrakhand.
Averybody sould com at once.landsdowne is so beautiful …
Lansdowne was the first of four places that we visited in Uttarakhand in October, the others being Kanatal, Mussoorie and Dehradun. In Lansdowne we were a group of 30 satsangis led by Guru Alokji. A quiet little idyllic spot ensconsed in the lap of himalayan ranges, inhabited by friendly people. Nature is resplendent here. Ideal for meditation and concentration.
beautiful…..just incredible as i am resident of here only