07/09/2020
The Forest Rest House at Kanasar was built in 1898 at an elevation of 2166m and is 30km from Chakrata. Huge Deodar trees which are over 150 years old, with girths of 6.35m and above can be found in these groves. Kanasar range is silviculturally significant as regeneration of fir and spruce trees was done here but was unsuccessful, hence was named 'Howard's Folly' after the DFO. The rocky terrain harbors Gentiana kurroo, a critically endangered bitter drug plant of western and northwestern Himalayas locally called as 'kutki'.