{"id":40929,"date":"2026-06-15T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stayvista.com\/blog\/?p=40929"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:00:28","slug":"gangotri-to-gaumukh-trek-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stayvista.com\/blog\/gangotri-to-gaumukh-trek-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Gangotri to Gaumukh Trek 2026: 18 km to the Ganga’s Source – Mid-June Is Your Last Window"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You can walk to the exact spot where the Ganga is born. It’s a glacier snout in Uttarakhand called Gaumukh, about 18 km up from Gangotri, and the meltwater that drips off its ice becomes the Bhagirathi \u2014 the river India calls holy. But two things stand between you and that walk this week. Only 150 people a day<\/strong> are allowed in. And the gate effectively shuts for the monsoon in mid-June<\/strong>, not reopening until September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Search this trek today and you’ll hit a wall of conflicting numbers, stale dates, and package upsells \u2014 and not one of them tells you the window is about to close. So here’s a single, current 2026 guide: is it open, how far, the permit, the cost, the 2-day itinerary, and where to break the long drive up. If you’re driving from Delhi or the plains, a night in Rishikesh or Dehradun makes the climb far kinder \u2014 more on that near the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0The Gangotri to Gaumukh trek is an ~18 km (one-way) walk to the snout of the Gangotri Glacier \u2014 the source of the Bhagirathi (Ganga) \u2014 at about 4,023 m. Gangotri National Park reopened on 1 April 2026<\/strong>, and only 150 trekkers a day<\/strong> are allowed to Gaumukh (\u20b9150 permit for Indians). The catch: mid-June is the last pre-monsoon window<\/strong> \u2014 after ~20 June the route closes until mid-September. Best done as a 2-day trek with a night at Bhojbasa.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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