The Corbett Established in 1936 as India's first National park, Corbett is famous for its wide variety of wildlife and its beautiful location in the foothills of the Himalayas by the side of the Ramganga river. It may seem incongruous for a National Park to be named after a famed British hunter, but Jim Corbett was instrumental in setting up the reserve and eventually shot more wildlife with his camera than with his gun. Seeing atiger here is a possibility but also a matter of chance, more commonly seen wildlife includes wild elephants, langur monkeys, rhesus macaques, peacocks and several types of deer including cheetal, sambar, hog deer and barking deer. There are also mugger crocodiles, odd looking gharials, monitor lizards, wild boars and jackals. Corbett is also a bird watchers paradise. The Tiger reserve is open from November to June.