Navegaon national park

               Navegaon national park

           Navegaon national park is located in the Gondia district of Maharashtra. It is spread over an area of 135 sq. km. This isn’t your average, ordinary national park with vast tracts of forest land, but rather a unique landscape with a huge lake (11 sq.km) surrounded by hills. It, also, has watch towers placed at vantage points along the shore of the lake and elsewhere in the forest that allow incredible views of animals at close range. The park has an Aviary, a deer park and 3 gardens.

The airport nearest to Navegaon is in Nagpur (142 km), railhead in Deulgaon (2 km) and Main Bus Stand in Navegaon city (10 km).

     The park and surrounding areas have year-round pleasant weather. The best time to visit the national park is during the months of April and May if you are looking for animals and October to June if you are looking for birds.
The park opens at 4 in the morning and remains open until 7 in the evening.

     The park has impressive biodiversity; 209 species of birds, 9 species of reptiles and 26 species of mammals which include tiger, panther, jungle cat, small India civet, palm civet, wolf and jackal.

There are plenty of places available to spend the night around Navegaon. Accommodation is available in a rest house and a youth hostel in Gondia or you can book an MTDC run suite or cottage near the national park. For the more adventurous tourists, a tree house is available near the park.