By road
~35 km from Dehradun
North India · Uttarakhand
Mussoorie, Uttarakhand
The queen of hills, Raj-era and rambling · ~35 km from Dehradun
Getting there
By rail
Dehradun, ~33-35 km
By air
Jolly Grant Airport, Dehradun, ~60 km
Best time to visit
September to June; winter for snow, spring for clarity
Don't miss
Camel's Back Road
Gun Hill
Company Garden
Mussoorie Lake
Things to do
Mall Road evenings
Gun Hill ropeway
Kempty Falls
George Everest hike
Where to eat
Sources: wikimedia, Photo: Paul Hamilton · CC BY-SA 2.0
What to pack
Warm layers, walking shoes for Camel's Back Road
A quieter corner
The walk to Landour's Char Dukan before the day-trippers arrive
About Mussoorie
- Hills
Where it is
Mussoorie is a hill station in the Dehradun district of Uttarakhand, strung along a ridge of the Garhwal Himalayan foothills at about 2,000 m, above the Doon Valley and facing the snow peaks to the north-east.
History
Mussoorie began in the 1820s, when Captain Frederick Young and the revenue official F. J. Shore built a shooting lodge on the ridge, and it grew into one of the favourite summer retreats of the British in India, with hotels, churches and boarding schools.
People
Mussoorie's people speak Garhwali and Hindi, and the town has a long-established Tibetan community in Happy Valley and many boarding schools founded in the colonial era. Tourism and schooling are its main livelihoods.
Known for
- Mall Road and Camel's Back Road
- Gun Hill and its ropeway
- Kempty Falls
- Views over the Doon Valley
- Colonial-era boarding schools
Did you know?
Sir George Everest, after whom the world's highest mountain is named, lived and worked at Park Estate near Mussoorie while he was Surveyor General of India.
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