About Tiger Falls
Tiger Falls near Chakrata is one of India's tallest waterfalls and one of its most pristine — a 312-metre plunge through dense Himalayan forest accessible only by a 5-kilometre trek from the village of Lokhandi. The extraordinary height and the remote forest setting create an experience that feels genuinely wild, far removed from the developed waterfall tourism of Mussoorie and Nainital. The trek passes through mixed oak and rhododendron forest where barking deer, leopards, and jungle fowl inhabit the dark understorey.
The final approach to Tiger Falls reveals the waterfall by degrees — first heard as a distant roar through the forest, then glimpsed through tree gaps as a white streak down a cliff face, then experienced in full as the forest opens into a rocky bowl at the base. The mist from the fall reaches several hundred metres, nourishing a lush fern and moss community that gives the spray zone an almost tropical luxuriance. The pool at the base is icy cold even in August — the water originates from snowfields far above.
June–September during monsoon for maximum flow; morning for soft side-lighting on the cascade.
The falls are so tall that a wide-angle lens barely captures them — stitch a vertical panorama from two frames for the full height.