West Bengal · Kalimpong
Army Golf Club Kalimpong
An Indian Army golf course on Durpin Dara hill above Kalimpong, inside the cantonment near the Durpin monastery and Morgan House. Tripadvisor reviewers (it ranks first among Kalimpong outdoor activities, 4.8/5) describe sweeping Himalayan views, an army-run public cafeteria at the edge of the course, and note plainly that "the golf course is not directly opened to tourist" — visitors come for the viewpoint and snacks, while play appears limited to service personnel and guests. The GolfPass West Bengal directory lists it as Private/Military. Its existence is independently corroborated by the Comptroller and Auditor General: Annexure-IV of CAG Report No. 35 of 2010 lists "66 | Kalimpong | 29.00" acres among 97 Army golf courses on defence land as of August 2009 — though that fixes existence, not whether it operates today.
CAN I PLAY HERE?
No public access terms are published for this one. It is listed so you know it is here, and so a search for it stops here rather than somewhere that will guess — but there is no visitor route we can point you to.
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- 21 August 2026
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What we knowEverything on file, and what the sources disagreed about
The hole count remains unresolved. Two sources state a number and they disagree: the GolfPass course page says 9 holes, while the Kalimpong District Tourism Welfare Society calls it "a scenic 18-hole golf course". Neither comes from the club itself, neither backs the other up, and the Tripadvisor reviews state no number at all — so the true figure is simply unknown.
The newest dated evidence that the course is in play remains a December 2019 review. A tempting 2025 date stamp on one directory site turned out to reflect a bulk import of that site's content — an adjacent, unrelated page carries a stamp two minutes apart — rather than any actual news of this course, so it counts for nothing. Whether the course is currently operating therefore cannot be confirmed.
No hole count, par or contact details are published by the club or any official source we could reach (a golfify.io scorecard page exists but could not be read). Searches of Indian Army and government sites, cantonment-board documents, Bengali- and Nepali-language news, and 2026 news coverage found nothing beyond directory pages and TripAdvisor mirrors.
Not to be confused with Army Mountain View Eco Park Bengdubi, a separate army facility about 60 km away near Bagdogra under a different formation; beyond appearing in the same GolfPass West Bengal directory, no fact, phone, price or web page connects the two. This appears to be the only documented golf course in the Darjeeling–Kalimpong hills proper; the historic Senchal course above Darjeeling could not be documented at all, and no course in Darjeeling or Siliguri town could be documented either.
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- Can a visitor play at Army Golf Club Kalimpong?
No public access terms are published for this one. It is listed so you know it is here, and so a search for it stops here rather than somewhere that will guess — but there is no visitor route we can point you to.
Where it isDurpin Dara hill, Kalimpong · Kalimpong
Where they are
Durpin Dara hill, Kalimpong, Kalimpong, West Bengal
Where this came from6 sources · researched Aug 2026
Distances are straight-line from published coordinates; a place without them is listed by city and state.
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