Patnitop is a hill station, located, between Ramban Town and Udhampur city in the

Ramban district Ramban district is a district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, located in the lap of the Pir Panjal range. It was carved out as a separate district from erstwhile Doda district in 2007. It is located in the Jammu division. Th ...

of Jammu and Kashmir,

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. It is in located on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (which is part of

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, formerly 1A), from

Jammu Jammu is the winter capital of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is the headquarters and the largest city in Jammu district of the union territory. Lying on the banks of the river Tawi, the city of Jammu, with an area of ...

, on the way from

Udhampur Udhampur (ˌʊd̪ʱəmpur) is a city and a municipal council in Udhampur district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is the headquarters of Udhampur District. Named after Raja Udham Singh, it serves as the district capital ...

to Srinagar. Situated on a

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in the Shivalik belt of the

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, Patnitop sits at an altitude of . The river

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flows in close proximity to this location. Patnitop lies in District Ramban of Jammu And Kashmir

Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Tunnel

Snowfall and avalanche in winter at Patnitop used to obstruct the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway a few times every winter and causes long queues of vehicles, sometimes for days. These problems were mitigated by the opening of the Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Tunnel. At , it is India's longest road tunnel. It starts from about from

Chenani Chenani is a town and tehsil in the Udhampur district, in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is governed by a notified area council (city council). Before 1947, it was an internal jagir ruled by a Chandel (Rajput) ruler in th ...

town south of Patnitop to Nashri village north of Patnitop, reducing the distance from Jammu to Srinagar by and bypassing Patnitop.

The Patnitop Ropeway

Skyview Patnitop is India's highest ropeway and the largest Indo-French collaboration in mountain infrastructure development was built in a record time of 2.4 years under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. The ropeway started its commercial operations on July 20 ,2020 . A month after starting its commercial operation, the Skyview Patnitop by Empyrean, an initiative by Empyrean Skyview Projects Private Limited (ESPPL), was awarded the best adventure tourism destination 2019 .It features India's highest ropeway with over 65 meters of ground clearance and the longest span of 849 meters between eight towers . The Ropeway reduces the travel time between sanget & patnitop to 15 minutes from the earlier 1.5 hours .

Gallery

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References

External links

Patnitop Development Authority, Official website

Trekking in PatniTop by INDITRAMP
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