Palghar Tourism Palghar Vacations

Palghar is an industrial town situated 120 km north of Mumbai, in Maharashtra. It is located on the Konkan coast, in north Maharashtra’s mango country. Though noisy, polluted, and dusty like any other industrial town, Palghar’s proximity with places of high tourist quotient makes it a suitable base for visiting tourists. The main occupation of the people of Palghar is farming and trading and working for companies based in Bombay. There is also a good number of small and medium scale chemical, textile, and pharmaceutical factories. Maharashtras biggest fishing center, Satpati, is located beside Palghar railway station. There are farms growing chickoos, coconuts, palm dotted all around villages around Palghar. Rice is grown on agricultural lands during the monsoon.