About Mukteshwar

Mukteshwar is a ridge town in Nainital district of Uttarakhand, about 2,286 m up and 51 km from Nainital. It takes its name from Mukteshwar Dham, an old Shiva temple on the highest point of town, with the cliff ledge of Chauli ki Jali just behind it. The British set up a veterinary research station here in 1893, now a campus of the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, and the town is still ringed by fruit orchards and deodar forest. On clear mornings the Himalaya, including Nanda Devi, stretches across the northern skyline.