Panna National Park, National park in Panna district, India.

Panna National Park is a protected area in central India covering roughly 542 square kilometers of woodland, grassland, and river valley landscape. The terrain shifts between dense deciduous forest and more open zones along the Ken River, where vegetation becomes sparser.

Panna was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1981, and in 1994 it became India's twenty-second tiger reserve and the fifth in Madhya Pradesh. Project Tiger protection followed in 2007, the year the Ministry of Tourism named it India's best-maintained national park. Poaching wiped out its tigers by 2009; tigers relocated from Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Pench rebuilt the population to about 80.

The park lies 57 km from Khajuraho, the UNESCO World Heritage temple site. The Hindi source notes that the Pandavas are said to have spent much of their time in Panna, a tradition also mentioned in the Mahabharata.

The best time to visit is between October and June when temperatures are more pleasant and animals are easier to spot. Morning and afternoon safari tours let visitors experience wildlife during their most active periods.

Panna holds the northernmost natural teak forests and the easternmost natural Kardhai (Anogeissus pendula) forests. The Ken River runs about 72 km through the park, and the reserve lost all its tigers by 2009 before a translocation programme brought the population back to as many as 80.