Jolly Grant Airport , also known as Dehradun Airport, is an airport serving Dehradun

Dehradun

- Geography :The Dehradun district has various types of physical geography from Himalayan mountains to Plains. Raiwala is the lowest point at 315 meters above sea level, and the highest points are within the Tiuni hills, rising to 3700 m above sea level...

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand , formerly Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the Land of Gods due to the many holy Hindu temples and cities found throughout the state, some of which are among Hinduism's most spiritual and auspicious places of pilgrimage and worship...

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Overview

The airport is located about 25 km (15.5 mi) southeast of the city of Dehradun. Nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas

Himalayas

The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...

, the airport, after a runway extension to accommodate larger aircraft, resumed commercial operations on 30 March 2008. Located close to the holy city of Rishikesh, the gateway to the Himalayas, the airport allows tourists to fly in instead of travelling by rail or road. It is a 20 minutes drive to the town of Rishikesh and around 45 minutes to Haridwar

Haridwar

Haridwar is an important pilgrimage city and municipality in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India...

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Airlines and destinations

External links

• Jolly Grant Airport (official Airports Authority of India
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