Kheerganga

What it is

A high meadow at the top of the Parvati walk with a hot spring that fills a stone pool, a day on foot above the road-end at Barshaini. The spring is the destination: hot water in a cold place, a view down the whole valley, and camps on the grass where people sleep so as to have the pool to themselves at dusk and at dawn. Nothing reaches it but the path.

Getting there

From Kasol, 37 minutes by road to Barshaini, then across the bridge and up the true left bank of the river. Nakthan, the last village, in about an hour; Rudranag, the waterfall and shrine with a dhaba on its bridge, at the halfway mark; then two to three hours of steady forest to the meadow. Four hours up and three down on a well-used path that needs no guide in clear weather. One at ₹1,000–2,000 a day from the Kasol counters is cheap for a first time.

The day — and the night

Leave Barshaini by eight; the forest climb above Rudranag is the hot part and is better done before noon. Reach the top by mid-afternoon, take a camp or a hut — typically ₹500–1,500 a head with dinner as of September 2026 — and wait for the day walkers to go down. The pool at dusk, dinner at the camp, a cold night, and the pool again at first light before the descent. The three-day plan is built around exactly this.

When to go

April to June and September to November, when the path is clear of snow and out of the monsoon; October is the best of them. July and August bring slides on the Barshaini road and mud on the steep parts. From December to February the upper path is a snow walk and most camps close — for the experienced, with warm gear, and not for a first time.

Around it

Barshaini at the bottom; Kalga and Pulga just above the road-end on the way down, both good for a slow lunch; Tosh across the valley from the same bridge. The walks guide puts Kheerganga among the valley's other paths.

Plans that include this

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2 nights · 3 days · TrekkersWalks & treks

Kheerganga from Kasol — the walk up the valley, a night by the spring, and down

The Kheerganga trek done properly: Barshaini, Nakthan, Rudranag, a night by the spring, down via Kalga, Manikaran's tanks on the way out. Times and bands.

Best Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov

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3 nights · 4 days · FriendsClassic

Kasol with friends — four days: a Tosh night, the Kheerganga walk, and Chalal to finish

A four-day Kasol plan for a group: a night in Tosh, the walk to Kheerganga and a night by the spring, down to Chalal, Manikaran on the way out.

Best Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov

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6 nights · 7 days · Soloslow

A slow week in Kasol alone — one base, one walk a day, and nowhere to be

Seven days in the Parvati valley from one room in Chalal: Rasol, Kheerganga as a day walk, Manikaran's tanks, the high villages — hard days and easy ones.

Best Mar–Jun · Sep–Nov

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