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Places to Visit in Saputara Hill Station – Saputara Sightseeing

Saputara is a town in the Dangs district of Gujarat

If you live in Gujarat and if you love traveling, you must have come across Saputara Hill Station. It’s THE most famous hill station in Gujarat. If you’re in Saputara, this post will help you find places to visit during your sightseeing tour.

I’ve been to Saputara multiple of times. It’s 2 hour drive from my hometown. Without doubt, Saputara is really a good vacation or weekend trip destination from Surat/Mumbai/Ahmedabad.

I never get bored of Saputara.

And I also never get bored of making lists! ๐Ÿ˜›

Some of my recent lists:

…and time to add one more! List of places to visit in Saputara.

The Sightseeing List

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The order is, “must-see” to “huh”. ๐Ÿ˜›

1. Saputara Lake

Saputara lake is USP of Saputara hill station. The lake offers boating facilities and lakeside recreational activities.

No matter where you go in Saputara, eventually you’ll visit this place at least once. It’s hub of tourists.

You can hire boats from the boat-house between 8:30am and 6:30pm. For half an hour, a pedal boat costs Rs. 20/- per person and a rowboat Rs. 5/-.ย With that price tag, boating in Saputara lake is probably the cheapest in country.

Saputara Lake - Photos & Information 3
Photo: Tripadvisor

Ticket Charges:
Pedal boat: Rs. 20 per person
Rowboat: Rs. 5 per person

Time:ย ย 
08.30 AM to 06.30 PM

Tourist Rush:
Average waiting time is 20 minutes.
Place is mostly crowded.

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More photos, information and tips: Saputara Lake

2. Ropeway

Running between Governorsโ€™ hill and Sunset point, ropeway is must do activity when hanging around in Saputara.

As far as I know, Saputara is one the few places in Gujarat where ropeway service is present. Others are,

  1. Pavagadh
  2. Ambaji (Gabbar Hills)
  3. Saputara Ropeway

The view of valley that you get from such height is mind boggling.

Ropeway at Saputara Hill Station 1
Photo:ย Gujarat Tourism

Ticket Charges:
Rs. 50 per person

Time:ย ย 
Starts in morning when there are enough people for ferry.

Last car departs at 07.00 PM from Sunset point.

Tourist Rush:
Usual waiting time during weekend is 20-30 minutes.

Normal days, no waiting.

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3. Sunset Point

If youโ€™re planning to stay back till evening in Saputara, you shouldnโ€™t miss view of Sunset point.

This place can be best enjoyed when thereโ€™s no crowd around, so better to go off season time. Avoid weekends, holidays and festivals and you shall find this place serene.

You can’t take your car all the way to top. You either need to walk for a kilometer -or- you can take ropeway ride from Table Top point and reach here.

3 - Sunset Point Saputara tripadvisor Jenish Parmar
Photo: Tripadvisor Jenish Parmar

Ticket Charges:
No charges.

Time:ย ย 
Anytime. Of course, evening time is the best.

Tourist Rush:
Average.

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More photos, information and tips: Sunset Point Saputara

4. Table Top / Town View / Governor’s Hill

Don’t be confused, all three names point to same area.

Townview point offers what it stands for. Standing here, you can view of entire Saputara Hill Station.

The name table top comes because of flat table like surface on top of hill called Governorโ€™s Hill. After Saputara lake, this hill is the most frequented place by tourists.

It’s also hub of many adventure sports and recreational activities.

  1. Bike riding (Itโ€™s polluting the environment however)
  2. Horse riding
  3. Camel riding
  4. Ziplining
  5. Valley crossing

Note that the activities may not be offered during off season.

Governors Hill View Point Saputara 1
Photo: Tripadvisor Vishal Bihani

Ticket Charges:
No charges for entry. Parking fee is mandatory however.

Time:
Anytime, any season during year. ย 

Tourist Rush:
High.

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More photos, information and tips: Governor’s Hill Saputara

5. Step Garden

Step garden is one of finest maintained place in Saputara. Itโ€™s a small garden, consisting from 20-25 steps. On each step, youโ€™d see wide range of flower beds.

From the top of Step garden, view of valley is mesmerizing. You can also get a town view of Saputara turning 180 degree.

For photography, this place is heaven.

Step Garden Saputara 4
Photo: Tripadvisor IamSangram

Ticket Charges:
Free.

Time:
Morning 10 to evening 6

Tourist Rush:
Moderate.ย ย 

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More photos, information and tips: Step Garden Saputara

6. Sunrise Point

A place for early birds!

This point matches with Sunset pointย of Saputara hill station. You need to park your car around 1 km from the peak point and then trek to the point. For aged ones, this trek in the morning might be difficult. [This was true one year ago. Now road to the top could possibly be there. Yet to verify it.]

This place is underdeveloped so you won’t find any tourism activity here. Carry water/food with you.

Sunrise Point Saputara 1
Photo: Tripadvisor wayne2709

Ticket Charges:
None.

Time:
Sunrise time. Morning 05.30 – 06.30 AM. ย 

Tourist Rush:
Low.

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More photos, information and tips: Sunrise Point Saputara

7. Saputara Tribal Museum

Tribal museum displays Adivasi (People of Dang area) history of the Dang region. Itย gives an idea about culture of local people and their lifestyle.

Saputara museum craves renovation and maintenance.

The entire museum can be completed within an hour. Most of the artifacts displayed are self explanatory and donโ€™t need any extra knowledge.

Needless to say, this place is only for the interested ones. If you had struggled in Social Science subject in school days, museum is not for you! ๐Ÿ˜›

Tribal (Adivasi) Museum Saputara Dangs 1
Photo: Tripadvisor Shashikant2014

Ticket Charges:
Rs. 5

Time:
Morning 10 AM to Evening 5 PMย 

Tourist Rush:
Moderate.ย 

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More photos, information and tips: Saputara Tribal Museum

8. Lake Garden

Lake garden is located exactly next to Saputara lake.

Garden is lush green and maintained pretty well.ย It has nice benches to seat/relax and walking trails. Evening would be best time to spend time here with family.

Also a good place for photography.

8 - Saputara Lake Garden tripadvisor KhatriRocks
Photo: Tripadvisor KhatriRocks

Ticket Charges:
Free.

Time:
Morning 10.00 AM to Evening 06.00 PM

Tourist Rush:
High during weekends. Average otherwise.

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9. Hatgadh Fort

A place for the trekker inside you!

The ancient fort is stationed in Mulher village, Nasik district, Maharashtra. As Hatgad is 3 km from Saputara, many tourists visit this fort as a short excursion.

Itโ€™s flatten hill-top is around 200 m from ground. Sky touching height and breezing atmosphere makes Hatgad an all season trekking place as well as local weekend trip destination. Though, Hatgadh fort looks best in monsoon season.

9 - Hatgadh Fort near Saputara
Photo: Ashwin Bardoliwala

Ticket Charges:
None.

Time:
Monsoon is the best season.ย 

Tourist Rush:
Low.

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More photos, information and tips: Hatgadh For Salher

10. Rose Garden

Rose Garden, as the name depicts, should have lots of roses right?

Partially, it has roses but nothing that makes you say “Wow!”

Notified Area of Saputara used an innovative approach for this rose garden. They started a scheme named, โ€œSmriti Gulabโ€ in which visitors can plant a rose in garden with their name.

10 - Rose Garden Saputara

Ticket Charges:
Free entry.

Time:
Morning 10 AM to Evening 6 PM.

Tourist Rush:
Low.

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More photos, information and tips: Rose Garden Saputara

11. Honey Bees Center

The center is small and gives information about how honey is harvested.

This place is near to Saputara lake. Itโ€™s opposite of parking of notified area. As far as I can remember, thereโ€™s no entry fee whatsoever.

Along with the education tour, they also see honey commercially.

Honey Bees Centre Saputara 3

Ticket Charges:
None.

Time:
Place is open during day time. However, you might find no one in the center sometimes. ย ย 

Tourist Rush:
Low.

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More photos, information and tips: Honey Bees Center

12. Nageshwar Mahadev Temple

Nageshwar Mahadev Temple is a calm, peaceful and clean place. Overlooking Saputara lake, this place is a good spiritual place.

The temple is small, it has no entry fees and even though it is old, it is maintained very well. Surroundings are clean too.

Saputara Lake garden is just besides temple.

Nageshwar Mahadev Temple Saputara 1
Photo: Tripadvisor KhatriRocks

Ticket Charges:
None.

Time:
Morning 8.00 AM to Evening 06.30 PMย 

Tourist Rush:
Low.

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13. Echo Point

Echo point offers one the best views of valley.ย Itโ€™s a natural amphitheatre, geographical location of two hills resonates your audio waves.

To reach here, one need to trek for one and a half kilometer, so not many people visit this point.

If you like peace and want to stay away from crowd, go to Echo Point. (Couples! :D)

A track runs up to Sunrise Point, and then the same road twirls up to the Echo Point.

13 - Echo Point Saputara nivalink
Photo: nivalink.com

Ticket Charges:
None.

Time:
Anytime.

Tourist Rush:
None.

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More photos, information and tips: Echo Point Saputara

14. Artist Village

Artist village, also known as Gandharva Pure artist is an artistic place to see and buy tribal artifacts.

People who live in Dang area are known as โ€œDangiโ€. They have their own language and own vibrant culture. One skill these Dangi culture inherently teaches to its people is painting and crafting.

Gandharvapur Artist Village Saputara 2
Photo: Gujarat Tourism

Ticket Charges:
None.

Time:
Morning to evening. (No fixed timings, depends on tourist rush.)

Tourist Rush:
Less.

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More photos, information and tips: Artist Village Saputara

Happy Stay!

Go ahead and enjoy Saputara to the fullest!

I assure you, you’ll have one of the best holidays of your life.

You can find list and book hotels in Saputara via:

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18 responses to “Places to Visit in Saputara Hill Station – Saputara Sightseeing”

  1. Pranav Avatar
    Pranav

    I am planning for a trip from 14- to 20/21 april.

    I want to cover all these locations and also, gira falls, janki van, botanical garden , ajmal gadh.

    I will be travelling from Umbergaon, Gujarat, via Billimora and Via Toy train or bus from waghai.

    I have no vehicle with me and my parents are travelling with me.

    Kindly guide me how to plan my journey and also with more locations could be included as the time period is big and i dont have any vehicle.

    can i get govt circuit house/rest house /forset rest house as i am working in central govt firm.

    kindly provide details as how to book them with numbers and also how many days to stay in waghai and saputara.

  2. Sandip Avatar
    Sandip

    Very useful
    If u can mention best time to go and temperature related details. Also about the local transportation, famous things for shopping, food and not to miss list.

    Your views would be view more than any other professional website

    1. Darpan Dodiya Avatar

      Thank you Mr Sandeep. Noted your suggestions. ๐Ÿ™‚

  3. Pratik Parekh Avatar
    Pratik Parekh

    Hi,
    I don’t have any vehicle to travel.. Is there any government vehicle or bike ride (like in Goa) options are available in saputara to visit various places. Please do reply.
    Thanks in advance.

    1. Darpan Dodiya Avatar

      Yes there are old-school type Jeeps available to visit various places in Saputara.

      I haven’t heard about any bike rental services so far.

      Please note that you’ll have no problems roaming around Saputara. However, if you’re planning a an excursion to inner Dangs then you will have hard time navigating around.

  4. Nilufar Haque Avatar
    Nilufar Haque

    Do you have contact number for forest log hut?

    1. Darpan Dodiya Avatar

      No.

      It is run by forest department, you may try contacting them.

  5. Poornima Avatar
    Poornima

    Hi what are the options available innsaputara for stay we are a group of 8 adult s n 8 children .
    Poornima

  6. Dinesh Shah Avatar
    Dinesh Shah

    Darpan.
    Need some guidance. Planning to visit Saputara on a 3 nights trip – 2nd weekend of Dec.
    Hope this will be a good time to visit. Hope there will also be other crowd. [being a tourist place without company of other tourists is boring! had a worst experience on my previous trip]
    How are the roads to Saputara. I am travelling from Pune via Nashik. I have been told there are ghats on the way. Are they too dangerous to drive? I have good driving experience on ghats as well but just to be cautious. Tried 3d Earth in google maps and did not find it to be too challenging. Want your views on the road conditions…
    How are the roads from Saputara to Gira waterfalls?

    1. Darpan Dodiya Avatar

      Hello,

      Time is decent.

      There was sudden downfall in tourist numbers after the demonetization drive. So you might not see many people there.

      Roads are all right. (Speaking from my experience of May 2016, Pune to Surat) At some places, new roads are being laid. Ghat driving is nothing to worry about. You’re good to go!

      Recent monsoon has introduced some path holes and cracks on Saputara – Gira falls route. So the road is not at par compared to standard Gujarat roads, nevertheless road is motorable. Nothing to worry about.

      1. Dinesh Shah Avatar
        Dinesh Shah

        Excellent! thanks for the reply…
        Looking forward to the trip. One last thing please – Saputara – Gira road I hope is safe to drive, given that it goes through dense forest?
        Also, are the road atleast 2 lanes? (1 lane for each side). Recently visit a waterfall in Maharashtra area (near Bhimashankar) and the road was a single one…

        You have created an excellent information site. Already book marked this page for guidance on my trip ๐Ÿ™‚ Thanks again..

        1. Darpan Dodiya Avatar

          The forest ain’t so dense, there’s absolutely nothing to worry about. I’ve been to that road plenty of times, sometimes as late as (Or as early as!) 3 AM, it’s all cool.

          Yes, road is 2 lane. In fact, Saputara – Gira Road is the main road connecting Gujarat to Maharashtra. Its gotta be wide.

          Thank you for nice words. Helps me stay motivated and write more and more.

          Wish you happy journey, please share your experience if possible! ๐Ÿ™‚

          1. Dinesh Shah Avatar
            Dinesh Shah

            thanks for the prompt replies…

  7. thecaraabiner Avatar
    thecaraabiner

    Will be travelling from 8 to 10 sep. from mumbai via trimbakeshwar to saputara satying at jain dharamshala in saputara.
    Will be surely visiting all these 14 places along with gira falls and waghai botanical gardens and janki van and will be taking ahmedabad mumbai highway while returning .
    Wanted suggestions for any other places i should consider for visiting .
    Please reply as soon as possible. Great work brother keep the good work going .
    Also subscribed your youtube channel , keep posting videos.

    1. Darpan Dodiya Avatar

      Thank you :).

      Gira Falls, Janki Van and Botanical Gardens are perfect choice. No need to add/remove any other place.

      If you’d like to try traditional Dangi food, goto Nahri Hotel at Gangpur Village.

      It is 7km from Vansda.

  8. Rakesh L. Avatar
    Rakesh L.

    Very helpful list! Keep it up!

    R. L.

  9. Sauras Patel Avatar
    Sauras Patel

    Good Article On Saputara And Place to visit in saputara

  10. Aman Mehta Avatar
    Aman Mehta

    Commendable work!

    I’ve recently visited Saputara following your blog.

    It was awesome experience!

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