Places to visit near Ranchi - distance, drive time and cab fare
28 destinations, each with its distance from Ranchi, the drive time by cab, the right season and what the trip costs - from waterfalls an hour out to the long pilgrimage runs to Deoghar and Puri.
The most-visited places near Ranchi are Hundru Falls (45 km), Patratu Valley (40 km), Jonha and Dassam Falls (40 km each) and Netarhat (156 km). Within a four-hour radius you also have Betla National Park, Deoghar's Baidyanath Jyotirlinga (252 km), Parasnath Hill and Hazaribagh. Beyond them are the two long pilgrimages Ranchi families actually drive - Basukinath, and Puri's Jagannath Dham at 512 km with Konark and Chilika alongside it. Raahi Saarthi day trips start at ₹1,899.
Waterfall
Jharkhand's most photographed waterfall
Ten streams falling as one
A sacred 150-foot drop
A jungle waterfall few tourists know about
Five waterfalls in one frame
Lake
The 'Switzerland of Jharkhand'
Asia's first underground hydel power station
Asia's largest brackish lagoon, and India's Irrawaddy dolphins
Hill Station
Jharkhand's only true hill station
A thousand gardens, a forested plateau
Purulia's plateau of dams, waterfalls and palash, over the Bengal border
Three peaks above Deoghar - and a ropeway that has not run since 2022
Wildlife
City
Where Rabindranath's brother wrote his poems
Ranchi's family-favourite Sunday spot
India's third-largest steel plant + a 200-acre zoo
Coal capital of India, home of IIT (ISM)
The temple city on the road to Puri
Temple
Heritage
Industrial
Pilgrimage
One of the 12 sacred Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva
The holiest Jain pilgrimage in the world
The temple that completes the Baidyanath pilgrimage
One of the four Char Dham, on the Bay of Bengal
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