📍 Garden📍 Orchard🌄 Viewpoint

Chaubatia Gardens

Ranikhet, Uttarakhand, India

4.3 (0)

Overview

Government fruit orchards of 200-plus varieties spilling down a ridge with Trishul and Nanda Devi floating above the apple rows.

Why visit: Plucked-fresh Himalayan fruit with a snow-peak dessert view.

Things to do

›Apple & apricot orchards
›Fruit-juice stalls
›Bhalu Dam walk below

Orchard WalkPhotography

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Travel Information

Best time

Mar–Jun (blossom), Sep–Oct (harvest)

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹100–400

Duration

2–3 hrs

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