Bannerghatta National Park

Bannerghatta National Park lies about 22 kilometres south of Bengaluru in the hills of the Anekal range, at 1,245 to 1,634 metres. Set up in 1970 and made a national park in 1974, it covers around 260 square kilometres of granite slopes, moist deciduous valleys and scrub on the higher ground. In 2002 a small section became the Bannerghatta Biological Park, a zoo.

The park forms part of an elephant corridor linking the BR Hills with Sathyamangalam forest, and Asian elephants and gaur are among its larger animals. A guided bus tour runs along 6 kilometres of safari roads, and the hills are also used for trekking. Old temples inside the park are still in worship, and six villages sit within its boundaries. Much of the forest is planted, and the dry deciduous cover shrank by about 44 per cent between 1995 and 2021.