Bhimtal is a town and a Nagar panchayat in the Nainital region in the province of Uttarakhand, India. It is arranged at a height of 1370 meters above ocean level and is around 22 kilometers from Nainital. The significant fascination in Bhimtal is the Bhimtal Lake, which has an island in its middle. Other than the travel industry, Bhimtal has likewise now turned into a scaled-down locale base camp since the greater part of the area organization workplaces have been moved to the recently built Vikas Bhawan, the structure complex for region managerial workplaces.

Bhimtal is an antiquated spot named after Bhima of Mahabharata. Bhimeshwara Mahadev Temple, an old Shiva sanctuary in the bank of Bhimtal lake, is accepted to have been fabricated when Bhima visited the spot during the expulsion (vanvas) time of Pandavas. The current sanctuary was inherent in the seventeenth century, by Baz Bahadur (1638–78 AD), a King of the Chand administration, and the Raja of Kumaon.2008-06-18 at the Wayback Machine British Library.

Bhimtal is more seasoned than adjacent Nainital as the city of Nainital is only 150–160 years of age yet Bhimtal is more established than Nainital and Haldwani and was a stoppage on route to the old pedestrian street is as yet being used here and this street interfaces close by Kathgodam to all Kumaon area and even to Nepal and Tibet. It may have been the piece of the popular old silk course.