Saputara Hill Station

Saputara sits at nearly a thousand metres on the Maharashtra border, and it is the one part of Dang built for visitors rather than stumbled upon by them. A lake at the centre, gardens and viewpoints around the rim, a ropeway up to the sunset ridge, and a tribal museum that is genuinely worth the half hour.

Its season runs opposite to the rest of the dataset. The waterfalls below peak in August and September; Saputara peaks in the cool clear months from October to December, when the valley haze lifts and the viewpoints actually show you something. The monsoon festival is the exception, and it is deliberately timed against the weather.

Almost everything here is within a few kilometres, so this is the one area you can do largely on foot. It also makes the obvious base for the interior falls, though be honest about the distances, which run to two hours each way.