Offering a pleasant climate round the year, Solan is also known as the ‘Mushroom city of India’. Barog is favourite tourist destination throughout the year in Solan, whereas the Nalagarh Palace features the legends of the Gurkha Wars. Another major tourist attraction, Chail is a hill station visited by many tourists. The Deodar barking deer and oak forests with grasslands around the township are the abode of wildlife. Solan also has an old brewery and a sprawling horticulture and forestry university at Nauni. Other places of tourist interest in and around Solan include, Kuthar Fort, Arki Fort, Nalagarh Palace, Dolanji Bon Monastery among others.