Pachmarhi is a small town and most of its area is under Pachmarhi Cantonment. Cantonment was established in year 1872.
Civilian town of Pachmarhi is small and towards the tip of lake. Most of the civilian area is driven by tourism activities like offering hotels to visitors, selling gift-items etc.
There is no big shopping-malls or large hotels in Pachmarhi. Most of the hotels of Pachmarhi are small of approximately 15 to 30 rooms offers only vegetarian meals.
Shop-keepers mostly offers small gift items like marble items, jute-items, wooden gift items etc.. Main customers for them are tourists and families of Army personals.
When heat waves makes life tough in cities, soothing breeze serenely flows across Pachmarhi. During Rainy season Pachmarhi becomes like a newlywed bride.
Tourists staying at the cottages have to entertain the clouds as guests and enjoy their company. There is greenery all around, the chirping of birds creates a magic of its own kind.
Nature is at its best in Pachmarhi where the beauty of nature never gets fade. Here you can enjoy Para gliding, trekking, and adventurous cycle ride.
Pachmarhi is the only hill station in Madhya Pradesh. Unlike Kashmir, Shimla, mussourie Pachmarhi is no widely known.
Lack of railway connectivity and longer distance from the metro cities, the beauty is still a hidden treasure. It has fame only inside the boundaries of Madhya Pradesh.
It came into news when the leading personality of India the former President Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Ram ManoharLohiya, Jai Prakash Narayan started visiting Pachmarhi.