"It runs east to west alongside the Mall Road, and joins it at the,"

Scandal Point on the west side. On the east side.

The Ridge road leads to Lakkar Bazaar, a wooden crafts market. It's the major landmark and the most easily recognized face of the hill station. When winter sets in and when the country had its first major snowfall of the year, most news papers printed photos of the ridge submerged in clumps of fresh snow !

"Prominent landmarks on the Ridge are a neo-Gothic structure of,"

Church from 1844 and a tudorbethan styled library building built in 1910.

The biggest hillstation of the world, at one time the base ridge of Shimla had the thickest forest of the area, now the green slopes are covered with firs, pines, the Himalayan oak and carmine rhododendron trees, among which are dotted red-roofed chalets, half-timbered houses and Gothic Government buildings are visible from The Ridge !