Introduction
The Tarsar Marsar trek is a walk between two alpine lakes in the Anantnag district of Kashmir, starting from the village of Aru above Pahalgam. Tarsar sits at 3,795 m. Marsar you do not camp beside and you do not touch. You climb a ridge and look down at it from roughly 200 metres above, usually through moving cloud.
That distinction matters, because a lot of writing about this trek implies you walk to the shore of both lakes. You do not.
Before anything else, the status question. Indiahikes has called off the Tarsar Marsar trek for 2026. The banner on their trek page reads, in their own words and their own typo, "We are have called off this trek for 2026. Consider the Pin Bhaba Pass Trek instead." No reason is given on that page. Separately, Kashmir Life reported on 4 June 2026 that the Tarsar-Marsar route in Pahalgam remained among the trekking routes still shut following the April 2025 Pahalgam attack, alongside the Great Lakes chain, the Kolahoi Glacier trek and others, while adventure operators publicly asked the administration to reopen them.
So: verify the current position before you spend a rupee. This guide gives you the route and the logistics for when it is open, and it is honest about what is not verifiable.
Table of Contents
- Quick Overview
- Current Access Status (Read This First)
- Where Tarsar and Marsar Actually Are
- How to Reach Tarsar Marsar from Mumbai
- How to Reach Tarsar Marsar from Pune
- The Route, Day by Day
- The Marsar Viewpoint: What You Actually See
- Permits & Booking
- Accommodation
- Food on the Trail
- Nearby Attractions
- Budget Breakdown
- Practical Tips
- Safety Tips (including AMS)
- Common Mistakes
- Best Time to Visit
- FAQ
- Conclusion
- Sources
Quick Overview
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Location | Aru valley, above Pahalgam, Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir |
| Distance | 47.6 km, per Indiahikes |
| Duration | 6 trekking days, 7 including the drive to and from Srinagar |
| Difficulty | Moderate, with several long days over 10 km |
| Base village | Aru, about 12 km from Pahalgam |
| Tarsar Lake | 3,795 m (12,435 ft) |
| Sundersar | 12,945 ft |
| High point | Marsar View Point at 13,165 ft per Indiahikes; the same page also quotes a "Marsar pass" at 13,201 ft |
| Best season | Early July to early September |
| 2026 status | Called off by Indiahikes; route reported still closed as of June 2026 |
Indiahikes gives the total altitude gain as approximately 5,205 ft, from Aru at 7,960 ft up to 13,165 ft, though a second answer on the same page says 5,243 ft. Their maximum-altitude figure appears three ways on one page: 13,165 ft, 13,201 ft and "around 13,000 ft." Take 13,165 ft for the Marsar viewpoint and note the inconsistency rather than pretending it does not exist.
Campsite altitudes, per Indiahikes:
| Point | Altitude |
|---|---|
| Srinagar | 6,175 ft |
| Aru (base) | 7,960 ft / 2,426 m |
| Lidderwat | 9,120 ft |
| Shekwas | 11,035 ft |
| Tarsar | 12,435 ft / 3,795 m |
| Tarsar Pass | 13,140 ft |
| Sundersar | 12,945 ft |
| Marsar View Point | 13,165 ft |
| Homwas | 11,300 ft |
Current Access Status (Read This First)
Three verified facts, in order.
One. On 22 April 2025, terrorists attacked Baisaran meadow near Pahalgam and killed 26 people, most of them tourists. The Lieutenant Governor's administration subsequently shut down close to 50 tourist sites across Jammu and Kashmir as a precaution.
Two. Reopening has happened in phases. The Tribune, reporting PTI on 29 September 2025, listed Aru Valley among seven tourist spots reopened in the Kashmir division that day, following a Unified Headquarters security review. Sixteen destinations including parts of Pahalgam had been reopened in June 2025. A further 14 were reopened on 17 February 2026, bringing the cumulative total to 42.
Three, and this is the one that matters. Aru valley being open as a tourist destination is not the same as the Tarsar Marsar trek route being open. Kashmir Life reported on 4 June 2026 that most trekking routes remained shut, and named the Tarsar-Marsar Trek in Pahalgam specifically, along with Gadsar, Krishansar, Vishansar, Satsar, Gangbal, the Kolahoi Glacier trek, Tosamaidan-Yusmar, Dara-Pahalgam and Dara-Sonamarg. Over 200 adventure operators were reported as affected, and they had petitioned the Lieutenant Governor and the Chief Minister to reopen them.
Indiahikes calling the trek off for 2026 is consistent with that picture.
What I could not verify: whether the route reopened at any point between 4 June 2026 and now. No reopening announcement surfaced and no explicit statement that it remains closed surfaced either. The status is genuinely unknown from public sources. Do not book a Tarsar Marsar departure without a written confirmation from the operator that they have current permission, and do not accept a screenshot of a general Pahalgam reopening notice as proof.
Where Tarsar and Marsar Actually Are
Both lakes sit in the mountains above the Lidder valley, in Anantnag district. The trailhead is Aru, a village about 12 km up-valley from Pahalgam, at 7,960 ft. From Aru the trail follows the Lidder catchment up through Lidderwat and Shekwas to Tarsar, then crosses to Sundersar and finally to the ridge overlooking Marsar.
Two pieces of geography worth holding on to.
This is protected-area country. The Overa-Aru Wildlife Sanctuary covers 511 sq km in Aru Valley, in the Lidder Forest Division, and forms the catchment of the Lidder River. It was declared a game reserve in 1945 and upgraded to a sanctuary in 1981. Its notable geographical features include, explicitly, Tarsar Lake and the Kolahoi. Its western boundary abuts Dachigam National Park.
Marsar drains towards Dachigam. Indiahikes' own Day 6 description notes that from the Marsar ridge, "the outer edges of the Dachigam reserve forest almost climb up to the shores of the lake." Marsar feeds the Dagwan stream that runs down into Dachigam, which supplies Srinagar's water. That is the most plausible practical explanation for why the route stops at a ridge above Marsar rather than at its shore, though I could not find a notified boundary document to state it as fact.
Anantnag district's own tourism page for Lidderwat describes it as a base camp for the Kolahoi glacier, Tarsar and Marsar. It carries no permit information at all.
How to Reach Tarsar Marsar from Mumbai
By air to Srinagar. Sheikh ul-Alam International Airport (SXR) is the gateway. Mumbai has direct flights to Srinagar on most days, roughly three hours. This is the obvious and correct choice.
From Srinagar, the drive to Aru is about 100 km and takes three to four hours, via Anantnag and Pahalgam. Note a practical wrinkle Indiahikes flags: some shared and private vehicles do not have permission to cross Pahalgam, so the last 12 km from Pahalgam to Aru may need a local vehicle. Confirm with your operator who is driving that leg.
By air to Jammu, then road. Longer and slower. Jammu to Srinagar on NH44 is a full day and the highway closes for landslides and convoy movement. Only worth it if Srinagar flights are impossible.
By train. The nearest useful railhead for most Mumbai travellers is Jammu Tawi, and Mumbai to Jammu is a long two-night journey. With rail now running further into the valley, check current IRCTC routings rather than an old timetable. Almost everyone flies.
Build a night in Srinagar into the plan regardless of how you arrive. Srinagar is at 6,175 ft and Aru is at 7,960 ft, and starting from a houseboat rather than an airport is better for both acclimatisation and sanity.
How to Reach Tarsar Marsar from Pune
Pune to Srinagar direct flights operate on some days but the schedule is thinner than Mumbai's. Two options.
Pune → Srinagar direct. Check availability first. When it runs, it is the cleanest way in.
Pune → Delhi → Srinagar. The reliable fallback. Delhi to Srinagar is a busy sector with multiple daily flights. Budget a full travel day.
From Srinagar it is the same 100 km drive to Aru as above. Do not attempt to land in Srinagar and reach Aru and start walking the same day. The trek's first day out of Aru is 10 km.
The Route, Day by Day
Distances and times are Indiahikes' published stage data.
Day 1: Srinagar to Aru. A 100 km drive, three to four hours. Aru at 7,960 ft. Rest here.
Day 2: Aru to Lidderwat. Ten kilometres, about six hours, climbing to 9,120 ft. This is the gentlest day and the prettiest introduction to the Lidder valley: pine forest, open grazing ground, the river alongside for much of it. Lidderwat is a broad clearing where the Lidder and the stream from Tarsar meet.
Day 3: Lidderwat to Shekwas. Five point six kilometres, about five hours, up to 11,035 ft. Short on the map, tiring in practice, because you leave the tree line behind and the meadows start rolling upward.
Day 4: Shekwas to Tarsar. Five kilometres, four hours, to the lake at 12,435 ft. You camp beside Tarsar. This is the payoff campsite of the trek and the one people come back talking about, a long almond-shaped lake under a ring of peaks with the water changing colour through the day.
Day 5: Tarsar to Sundersar via Tarsar Pass. Five kilometres, five hours, over a crossing at 13,140 ft and down to Sundersar at 12,945 ft. Indiahikes notes that you circumnavigate the perimeter of both Tarsar and Sundersar over the course of the trek, which gives you the same lake from several angles.
Day 6: Sundersar to Homwas via the Marsar viewpoint. Nine kilometres, seven hours. Early start. You climb from Sundersar to the ridge at 13,165 ft, look down at Marsar, descend back to Sundersar in about forty minutes, and then continue down to Homwas at 11,300 ft.
Day 7: Homwas to Aru. Thirteen kilometres, six hours, back down to the roadhead.
Six trekking days, 47.6 km, seven days including the drives.
The Marsar Viewpoint: What You Actually See
You climb to the top of a ridge and Marsar is roughly 600 to 700 feet below you, per Indiahikes' description. On the right, the outer edges of the Dachigam reserve forest run almost to the shore.
The lake is usually under cloud. That is not bad luck, that is the normal condition. Indiahikes describes Marsar as "a hidden beauty, almost always engulfed under dollops of clouds and mist," and the standard advice is to be on the ridge at sunrise, because the clouds move through the U-shaped valley and the lake appears and disappears in seconds.
So plan for a pre-dawn start on Day 6 and accept the possibility that you will stand on that ridge and see nothing but grey. Plenty of trekkers do. The lake being hidden is part of the character of the place rather than a failure of the trek.
One correction to a claim you will see repeated: Indiahikes' itinerary takes you to the ridge and back to Sundersar. There is no Marsar campsite in their route. But their page does not anywhere state that camping at Marsar is prohibited, so do not attribute that rule to them. What is documented is the route, and the route goes up to a ridge and comes back down.
Permits & Booking
Be careful here, because this is where the internet is least reliable.
What is verified. Indian nationals do not require an Inner Line Permit or Restricted Area Permit to visit Pahalgam or Aru. Aru valley itself was formally reopened to tourists on 29 September 2025 after a Unified Headquarters security review.
What is not verified, and you will see stated as fact anyway. A wide range of commercial trekking sites quote a "Rs 500 trekking permit obtainable in Pahalgam," describe registration at a Pahalgam base office, and list checks at forest gates and police or paramilitary posts. None of this appears on any official Jammu and Kashmir tourism, district administration or PIB source that I could find. No notification, no fee schedule, no procedure. The Anantnag district page for Lidderwat is purely descriptive. Indiahikes' own trek page mentions no permit at all; the only access caveat it gives is about vehicles not having permission to cross Pahalgam.
I am not saying no check happens. Army and police presence in the Lidder valley is real and route permission for organised groups clearly exists as an administrative matter, because that is exactly what the operators were petitioning about in June 2026. What I am saying is that no published, citable permit procedure or fee exists in the public domain, and you should not plan around numbers you found on a booking site.
On the wildlife sanctuary. Tarsar Lake lies within the notified Overa-Aru Wildlife Sanctuary. Whether a Wild Life (Protection) Act permit is in fact required for trekking entry, who issues it, and at what cost — none of this is published by the J&K Wildlife Protection Department in any form I could locate. Ask your operator directly and get the answer in writing.
Practical booking advice. Use a Kashmir-based operator or a national operator with a local slope team, and require three things before you pay a balance: written confirmation that the route has current permission for your dates, a named local contact in Srinagar, and a stated cancellation and refund position in the event that permission is withdrawn. That last one is not paranoia. Indiahikes' own history includes calling off an entire Kashmir season mid-batch, in August 2019, with teams walking off the slopes under army escort. It can happen again.
Accommodation
On the trek, tents. Lidderwat, Shekwas, Tarsar, Sundersar and Homwas are camps, not villages. There is no built shelter and no shop.
Aru. A handful of guesthouses and small hotels, plus a J&K Tourism hut complex. This is where you sleep the night before and, if you time the exit right, the night after.
Pahalgam. The full range, from budget guesthouses to the large hotels along the Lidder. Twelve kilometres from Aru. Better food, more choice, and worth a night if you are building a buffer day.
Srinagar. Houseboats on the Dal and Nigeen, and conventional hotels in the city. Spend one night here on the way in.
Book the Aru night through your operator rather than turning up. In a normal season Aru is small and fills fast; in an abnormal season, availability and access can change with a security review.
Food on the Trail
Operator kitchen for six days. Kashmiri crews cook well and the tea is constant.
Aru and Pahalgam have proper food before and after. Wazwan in Srinagar on either end of the trek is a legitimate reason to build in a buffer day.
Carry your own electrolyte sachets, dry fruit and something salty. Days 2 and 7 are both over 10 km and Day 6 is a seven-hour day starting before dawn.
Water on this trek comes from streams and lake outflows and it is generally clean, but purify anyway. Grazing is heavy through these meadows in summer and the Lidder catchment carries livestock all season.
Nearby Attractions
- Pahalgam and the Lidder river — the town itself, plus Betaab valley and the Lidder amphitheatre. Crowded in season, still worth an afternoon.
- Aru village — a working Gujjar and Bakarwal grazing base as much as a trekking base. Walk around it.
- Srinagar — Dal Lake, the Mughal gardens, the old city, and the Jamia Masjid. A day here on either side of the trek is time well spent.
- Kolahoi glacier trek — a separate route from the same Lidderwat base camp, per the Anantnag district description. Also on the currently-restricted list as of June 2026.
If Kashmir is your objective and Tarsar Marsar is closed, the Kashmir Great Lakes trek is the obvious sibling route, and it has had the same access problems. For a Himalayan alternative that has been running reliably, Hampta Pass in Himachal is the comparable crossover, and Indiahikes has historically offered it as the direct substitute for Tarsar Marsar trekkers on the grounds that the difficulty is comparable.
Budget Breakdown
Two people, eight days from Mumbai, through an operator. Indicative only.
| Item | Budget (₹) | Mid-range (₹) |
|---|---|---|
| Mumbai–Srinagar return flight (per person) | 9,000 | 16,000 |
| Srinagar–Aru transfer, return (per person, shared) | 2,000 | 5,000 |
| Trek package, 6 days, per person | 15,000 | 24,000 |
| Srinagar stay, 2 nights (per room) | 2,000 | 6,000 |
| Aru stay, 1 night (per room) | 1,200 | 3,000 |
| Food off-trek, per person | 1,500 | 3,500 |
| Gear rental, per person | 1,000 | 2,500 |
| Buffer for a weather or permission delay | 5,000 | 8,000 |
No permit line item appears here, because no official permit fee is published. If your operator charges one, ask what it is for and what receipt you get.
Practical Tips
Build in a buffer day. On this trek that is not comfort, it is risk management, because access decisions in Kashmir are made at short notice.
Sleep a night in Srinagar and, ideally, a night in Aru before Day 1. Aru is only 7,960 ft but you are heading to 13,165 ft in five days.
Confirm the vehicle question. Some vehicles cannot cross Pahalgam towards Aru. Make your operator name the vehicle and the driver for that leg.
Rain gear that actually works. Kashmir summer is not dry. July and August bring afternoon rain into these meadows and the Tarsar campsite is exposed.
Warm layers even in August. Camping at 12,435 ft beside a glacial lake is cold at night regardless of the month.
Network drops above Aru. There is generally nothing from Lidderwat onwards. Give someone at home the itinerary and the operator's Srinagar number before you leave the road.
Cash. Srinagar has ATMs. Aru does not, reliably.
Do not wander off the marked route or towards the ridgelines beyond the trek line. This is a border state with an active security posture and a wildlife sanctuary boundary in the same landscape. Neither is a good place to improvise.
If you are coming off a Sahyadri season, read Sahyadri trek vs Himalayan trek first. Six consecutive days with three of them over 9 km is a different kind of load from a single hard Sunday.
Safety Tips
Acute mountain sickness and acclimatisation. You go from Srinagar at 6,175 ft to a camp at 12,435 ft in four days, and to 13,165 ft on the sixth. That is a moderate profile, not an aggressive one, and the trek's design gives you reasonable staging. The risk sits in two places: people who fly Mumbai to Srinagar and drive straight to Aru and start walking the next morning, and people who are unfit for six consecutive days.
Symptoms to watch for: headache not relieved by water or paracetamol, nausea, appetite loss, breathlessness at rest, dizziness, disturbed sleep. It typically shows six to twelve hours after gaining altitude, which on this route means at the Shekwas or Tarsar camps.
What to do:
- Spend a night in Srinagar and preferably a night in Aru before Day 1. Do not compress the itinerary.
- Three to four litres of water a day.
- No alcohol on the trek.
- Escalate on the danger signs: wet cough, gurgling breath, confusion, unsteady walking. These are HAPE and HACE indicators and they mean descend now, at night if necessary.
- If a headache is not clearing, drop altitude. From Tarsar you can go back down towards Shekwas quickly.
- Do not let a group leave an unwell person at a high camp to go for the viewpoint. When to cancel or turn back from a trek is worth reading before you are the one deciding.
Weather. Kashmir summer weather turns fast and the meadow camps are exposed. Tarsar and Sundersar both sit in bowls that hold cloud. Indiahikes' own risk note warns that weather might cause the trek to be called off without notice.
Security. This is the honest bit. The 22 April 2025 Pahalgam attack targeted a tourist meadow. Route closures across the Kashmir valley followed and, as of June 2026, most trekking routes including this one were reported still shut. Trek only through an operator with current written permission, do not trek independently in this landscape, and follow instructions from security personnel without arguing.
River crossings. The Lidder and its feeder streams run high in July with snowmelt. Cross where the guide crosses, not where the water looks shallowest.
Group discipline. Long days, big meadows, poor visibility in cloud. Groups string out. Group trekking safety rules applies with force here.
First aid. Carry a proper kit. On this trek the real injuries are blisters, sprained ankles from tussocky meadow, sunburn and dehydration. See first aid kit for Sahyadri treks and add altitude items and blister care.
Emergency numbers. 112. Keep your operator's Srinagar office number and the Pahalgam police station number written down on paper.
Common Mistakes
Booking before confirming the route status. In 2026 specifically, this is the mistake. Indiahikes has called it off. Route closures were reported in June. Get written confirmation.
Expecting to camp at Marsar. You camp at Sundersar and walk up to a ridge. Marsar stays 600 to 700 feet below you.
Expecting to see Marsar at all. It is usually in cloud. Go at sunrise and take what you get.
Landing in Srinagar and starting the same day. Common and unnecessary.
Treating "Aru valley is open" as "the trek is open." They are separate decisions taken by separate parts of the administration.
Trusting the Rs 500 permit figure from a booking site. No official source publishes any permit fee for this trek.
Going in June or late September. The window is early July to early September and it is short for a reason.
Best Time to Visit
Early July to early September — the season. Indiahikes states it plainly: "The best time to do the Tarsar Marsar trek is from the beginning of July to the beginning of September." A variant answer on the same page gives July to the middle of September and notes that it is possible to trek in Kashmir for only three months in the year.
July. Snow patches lingering near the passes, meadows at their greenest, wildflowers everywhere, and the highest chance of rain. Streams run full.
August. The classic month. Warmest, driest of the three, and the busiest in a normal season.
Early September. Colder nights, clearer air, thinner crowds. The window closes fast after the first week or two.
Everything else — no. Outside July to mid-September the passes hold snow and the campsites are not viable for a standard trekking group. There is no shoulder season here worth chasing.
FAQ
Q: Is the Tarsar Marsar trek open in 2026? A: Indiahikes has called the trek off for 2026. Kashmir Life reported on 4 June 2026 that the Tarsar-Marsar route in Pahalgam remained among the trekking routes still shut after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack, and that operators had asked the administration to reopen them. Whether that changed later in 2026 is not established by any public source I could find. Confirm with an operator in writing before booking.
Q: How high are Tarsar and Marsar? A: Tarsar Lake is at 3,795 m (12,435 ft) per Indiahikes. For Marsar, the trek's high point is the Marsar View Point at 13,165 ft, and the lake itself sits roughly 600 to 700 feet below that ridge. Indiahikes also quotes a "Marsar pass" at 13,201 ft in one FAQ answer, which conflicts with their own itinerary figure.
Q: How long is the Tarsar Marsar trek? A: 47.6 km over six trekking days, or seven days including the drives to and from Srinagar, per Indiahikes.
Q: Can I camp at Marsar lake? A: The standard route does not. You camp at Sundersar, climb to the Marsar ridge, view the lake from above and return to Sundersar in about forty minutes. Marsar drains towards Dachigam, and Indiahikes notes that the Dachigam reserve forest edge runs almost to the lake shore.
Q: Do I need a permit for the Tarsar Marsar trek? A: Indian nationals need no Inner Line Permit for Pahalgam or Aru. Beyond that, no official permit procedure or fee for this trek is published by J&K Tourism, the Anantnag district administration or any government source I could locate, despite widespread claims of a Rs 500 permit on commercial sites. Route permission for organised groups clearly exists as an administrative matter. Ask your operator to show you theirs.
Q: Which district is Tarsar Marsar in? A: Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir. The trailhead is Aru, about 12 km from Pahalgam. Tarsar Lake lies within the notified Overa-Aru Wildlife Sanctuary.
Q: How difficult is the Tarsar Marsar trek? A: Moderate. The gradient is manageable but the days are long, with several over 10 km and a total gain of roughly 5,200 ft. It is a trek for someone who can walk six consecutive days, not a first Himalayan weekend.
Q: How do I get from Mumbai to the Tarsar Marsar trailhead? A: Fly Mumbai to Srinagar direct, then drive about 100 km to Aru, three to four hours via Pahalgam. Confirm that your vehicle has permission to cross Pahalgam for the final 12 km.
Conclusion
Tarsar Marsar deserves its reputation. Camping on the shore of a lake at 12,435 ft, walking the full perimeter of two of them, and standing on a ridge waiting for cloud to clear off a third is as good as Indian alpine trekking gets. Six days, 47.6 km, no technical difficulty, and scenery that does not let up.
The problem is not the trek. The problem is access. Kashmir's trekking routes have been through repeated closures and this one was still on the closed list as of June 2026, and India's largest trekking operator has taken it off their calendar for the year. That is not a reason to write Kashmir off. It is a reason to plan with a buffer, book with an operator who will show you their permission, and keep a Himachal alternative in your pocket.
If it is open when you want to go, go in August. If it is not, do not force it.
Call to Action
Watching the Kashmir trek status before you commit? Read our Kashmir Great Lakes trek guide for the sibling route, and check whether your policy actually pays out on an administrative cancellation with our guide to verified trek insurance.
Image Alt Text Suggestions
- Tarsar lake at 3,795 m with surrounding peaks, Anantnag district Kashmir
- Aru village trailhead above Pahalgam, start of the Tarsar Marsar trek
- Lidderwat clearing and pine forest on the Tarsar Marsar route
- Shekwas meadow campsite at 11,035 ft on the Tarsar Marsar trek
- Campsite on the shore of Tarsar lake, Kashmir
- Sundersar lake and campsite at 12,945 ft
- Marsar lake seen from the ridge viewpoint through drifting cloud
- Wildflower meadow in the Lidder catchment during the July trekking season
- Shepherd huts and grazing ponies on the Tarsar Marsar trail
- Trekkers descending towards Homwas on the final day of the Tarsar Marsar trek
Sources
- Tarsar Marsar Trek — Indiahikes (trek page carrying the 2026 call-off banner, route stages, altitudes and season): https://indiahikes.com/tarsar-marsar
- "Kashmir Season Comes To An Abrupt End: All Kashmir Treks Called Off" — Indiahikes, 4 August 2019 (precedent for mid-season cancellation): https://indiahikes.com/blog/kashmir-season-abrupt-end-all-treks-called-off
- "7 tourist spots closed after Pahalgam attack reopened in Kashmir" — The Tribune / PTI, 29 September 2025 (Aru Valley reopening): https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/j-k/7-tourist-spots-closed-after-pahalgam-attack-reopened-in-kashmir/
- "Reopen Great Lakes routes: trekking community raises livelihood concerns" — Kashmir Life, 4 June 2026 (Tarsar-Marsar named among routes still shut): https://kashmirlife.net/reopen-great-lakes-routes-trekking-community-raises-livelihood-concerns-438790/
- "J&K reopens 14 tourist destinations after security review" — Business Today, 17 February 2026: https://www.businesstoday.in/india/story/jammu-lashmir-reopen-14-tourist-destination-after-security-review-since-pahalgam-attack-516428-2026-02-17
- Lidderwat — District Anantnag, Government of Jammu and Kashmir: https://anantnag.nic.in/tourist-place/lidderwat/
- Overa-Aru Wildlife Sanctuary — Wikipedia (citing J&K Wildlife Department and IUCN/UNEP-WCMC sources): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overa-Aru_Wildlife_Sanctuary
- Jammu and Kashmir Tourism, official portal: https://www.jktourism.jk.gov.in/
- "Jammu and Kashmir CM announces reopening of all closed tourist destinations by May" — News On AIR / Akashvani, February 2026: https://www.newsonair.gov.in/jammu-and-kashmir-cm-omar-abdullah-announces-reopening-of-all-closed-tourist-destinations-by-may
Access to trekking routes in Jammu and Kashmir is decided by the district and Unified Headquarters security review and changes without notice. Confirm the current status of the Tarsar Marsar route in writing with a registered operator before you book flights.
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