I have visited Dehradun a lot of times and mostly by train only. As the road condition (Ghaziabad, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee) is not very good and traffic is very high, the road travel is always very exhausting.
This time, me and 1 of my friends, Nishant planned to go for a 1 night trip to Dehradun, travelling by own vehicle. But we decided not to travel via Meerut, Muzaffarnagar etc. Instead we decided to go via Baraut, Shamli, Sahranpur.
13.05.2010, Delhi to Dehradun , Driver: Nishant (Solo), Accompanying: Myself
We started our trip at 6.30 am from my Home in Bhajanpura, which is very close to Loni More. Soon, we were out of Delhi, heading towards Baghpat. Road was OK and traffic was very minimal. After Baghpat, the traffic started increasing. This was a single road only and a lot of villages are there on both side of Road, so we were carefull in driving. Around 7.45 we reached Baraut. Normally at baraut, there is lot of traffic jam and you need some 15 minutes to cross this very small stretch of some half a KM. But we were fortunate enough that road was clear and crossed Baraut in 2 minutes.
After Baraut, the journey became very pleasant, as day was not very hot. On both sides of Road, lot of mango trees, full of Mangoes were there. Traffic was very minimal and we were running on a speed of 90 km/hr easily.
Around 9 we reached Shamli and around 10 we reached Saharanpur. After crossing Saharanpur, we took a halt at a Dhaba and had our breakfast.
After a break of 30 minutes, we again started for Last 70km Lap of our journey. After crossing some 40 KMs, hills started and road was also good.
We reached Dehradun by 11.45. We checked in our hotel and took a quick rest for 15 minutes. After it, we continued for our work. In evening, both of us went to Rajpur Road for a long walk, had our dinner there only and late night returned back to our hotel.
Next morning, we got up at 6.30 and started for Sahastradhara, which is 17 Kms from Dehradun. We reached there in approx 20 minutes. This is small fall of water. View was very good and minimal people were there. We took bath in fall and this was much releiving from heat of Delhi.
After spending 1hour there, we came back to our hotel.
In afternoon, we started back to delhi from Same route.
this was a pleasant 2 days journey, which we enjoyed a lot.
This route is better than the Meerut, Muzzaffarnagar one, as traffic is very less here. But the Dhabas are very minimal and the route is bit risky in late night hours.