This Countrywide Park stretches about one hundred km and is observed on the Central highlands of Kenya with an area of about 760 kilometers squared. Its rugged and coated with dense indigenous forests and scrubs near Nyeri. The Aberdare ranges discovered in the park has two primary peaks Ol Donyo Lesatima at three,999 meters over sea level and Kinangop three,906 meters above sea level.
The park is covered with red volcanic soils abundant in organic make a difference which supports the dense vegetation. It gets substantial amounts of large rainfall by means of out the yr and acts as a catchments area which flows to the Tana and Athi rivers.
The park is quickly accessible equally by air from Mweiga airstrip & Nyeri airstrip or by street from Nairobi. The park lies 200 kms from Nairobi when using the Nyeri gates,138 km making use of Naivasha Mutubio gate and 233 km when employing the Nyahururu route past Thomson’s falls along Nyahururu-Nyeri highway. A road runs throughout the park from the eastern to the Mutubio gate on the west of the park. The road network is superb even though 4 wheel automobiles make it when moist.
Some of the main points of interest include sport viewing, fishing, climbing the Lesatima peak, elephants, black rhinos, renowned Tree-tops lodge, Mau mau caves utilized for hideout in the course of the flexibility fight, rugged terrain and moorlands suitable for walks, fantastic apparent streams flowing from its scenic slopes.
Accommodation facilities in the park incorporate the Ruhuruini camp, Fishing lodge, sapper huts between other individuals within the park or about the park.