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Pench Tiger Reserve is two national parks in one, spread over the two states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in India. In Madhya Pradesh (MP) it located in Seoni and Chhindwara districts and in Maharashtra it is located in the northern part of Nagpur district. Pench Tiger Reserve in MP comprises of Indira Priyadarshini Pench National Park, Mowgli Pench Sanctuary and the buffer zone and is considered to be one of the most tourist friendly Tiger Reserves in the country. It gets its name from the river Pench which flows from north to south of the jungle.

Created in 1992-93, Pench Tiger Reserve (MP) is spread over 1179 square kilometres and established in 1999, Pench Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) is spread over an area of 741 square kilometres.

For the kids within each one of us, Pench makes one turn nostalgic reminding the ever loving Mowgli, Sher Khan and Bagheera of the renowned childhood memory of Jungle Book. It was the jungle of Pench that inspired the author Rudyard Kipling to script his imagination into a lively man-animal saga which is almost an epic in today's world.

Pench Tiger Reserve experiences extreme weathers with temperature ranging from 25°C to 44°C in summers and from 3°C to 25°C in winters. The Madhya Pradesh zones of the park remains closed for tourists from 1st July to 15th October and that in Maharashtra remains closed from 16th June to 30th September every year during monsoons.