Kukrail reserve is located at 15 km from Lucknow. The main attractions of the Kukrail reserve are a deer farm and a crocodile nursery, developed by the Forest Department of Lucknow. It is a nice picnic spot, having Children's Park, rest house and cafeteria. The forest reserve also has a good collection of birds.
A town in Lat. 280 47' North and Long. 770 33' east, Muradnagar is suitated at a distance of about 14 kms from Ghaziabad. The place gives its name to a railway station on the Delhi-Saharanpur section of the Northern Railway, which lies nearly 3 kms south-east of the town.
It was founded about four hundred year ago by Mirza Muhammad Murad Mughal whose mausoleum still stands near the town. The place possesses an ordinance factory ( of the Government of India).
Modinagar lies in Lat. 280 50' north and Long. 770 35' east, 25 kms north-east of Ghaziabad on the Delhi-Mussoorie National Highway (NH-58) . Parallel to this road runs the Delhi-Saharan section of the Northern Railway with a railway station here. A metalled road ,going to Hapur, passes through the town. It is of recent origin, having been founded by Gujar Mal Modi who established a sugar factory here in 1933, named the place after himself.
Mohan Nagar, a modern industrial township lies in Lat. 280 41' North and Long. 770 24' East, on the G.T. road about 7 kms west of Ghaziabad, and 16 kms east of Delhi, the Sahibabad railway station lying about 3 kms south-west of the place. It was founded in 1958 by N.N. Mohan and is named after him. It has a yeast and malt extract plant, a brewery and a distillery, a cold storage, an ice factory and a plant for soft drink, all equipped with modern machinery mostly manufactured at workshops in the township itself.
Located on the banks of a canal, Masuri is an attractive picnic spot, lying at a short distance from Ghaziabad. The place is surrounded by lush green mango groves.
Loni, the headquarter of the pargana, about 17 kms north-west of Ghaziabad with which it is connected by a metalled road and about 10 kms from Shahdara(Delhi) to which it is linked by another metalled road running to Saharanpur. It also gives its name to a railway station on the Shahdara(Delhi)-Saharanpur Lght Railway line.
Jalalabad, which gives its name to the pargana, 15 kms from Ghaziabad. Tradition traces its origin to the days of Akbar when, it is said, it was founded by one Jalal-ud-din who named the village after himself. The important crops of the place are wheat, gram and sugar-cane and the main sources of irrigation are wells and the Jalalabad distributary of the Ganga canal.
Hapur ( pargana and tahsil Hapur) is the headquarter of the tahsil, this is the largest tahsil of the district and lies in Lat. 280 44' North and Long. 770 47' East, 34 kms east of Ghaziabad. Hapur is a railway junction where the Delhi-Moradabad and the Meerut-Khurja lines of the Northern Railway meet.
Faridnagar lies at a distance of 30 kms from the district headquarter and about 2 kms from Bhojpur block(on the Begumabad-hapur road) with which is connected by a metalled road. The palce was founded in the times of Akbar by Nawab Farid-ud-din Khan (who received the land in Jagir) and it was called Faridnagar after him.
The village lies on theroad which takes off at Dasna and joins the Meerut-Hapur-Bulandshahr road at Gulaothi and is 25 kms from tahsil headquarters. It is connected in the north with the Pilkhuwa railway station by a 8 kms kutcha raod. According to a local account, the village was founded by a man named Dhaul Singh about 1500 years ago and was named after him. It was sacked by the Sikhs in 1780 and again became the scene of action during the freedom struggle of 1857 in which the local Rajputs took a leading part, 14 of them being said to have been hanged. In 1957 the villagers raised a memorial in honour of these martyrs.