2–3 hours
West Lidder River Trail
An easy riverside walk along the West Lidder near Pahalgam, ideal for acclimatising to bigger trails.
2–3 hours
- 2–3 hours
- Duration
About this trek
This gentle 5.8-km out-and-back trail near Pahalgam follows the West Lidder riverfront past the Deer Sanctuary, through green forests and meadows framed by the Himalayas. It's a great warm-up hike for acclimatising before tackling the region's longer, more demanding trails. The trailhead sits at Lidder View Park in Pahalgam, easily reached by bus, taxi or private vehicle.
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Route & trail
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This trek has not been digitised, so there is no map, no elevation profile and no checkpoint list for it. Everything else on this page is editor-checked information about the walk itself.
Getting there
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The Kashmir Explorer app keeps the same checklist on your account and inside the offline Trek Pack.
Photographs
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Conditions on this route change week to week. If you walk it, a short report on pass snow and river levels genuinely helps the next group — reports are posted from the Kashmir Explorer app.