Ooty Road Trip Route and Road conditions

Ooty Road Trip Route and Road conditions

Bengaluru - Mandya - Somanathapura - Nanjanagudu - Gundlupet - Bandipur - Theppakadu - Masinagudi - Bear Mountain Jungle Resort - Vibudhi Malai Murugan Temple, Sholur - Accord Highland, Ooty - Ooty Botanical Gardens - Accord Highland, Ooty - Kattabettu - Yedapalli Hatti - Coonoor - Dolphin’s Nose - Coonoor Railway Station - Toytrain to Ooty and back to Coonoor - Sunvalley Homestay Coonoor - The Culinarium, Coonoor - Palada - Avalanche Forest reserve office - Emerald Avalanche Lake - Ooty FernHill Sterling resort - Sandynulla - Tree park 6th Mile - Wenlock Downs 9th Mile Shooting Medu - Pykara Lake - Needle Rock View Point - Gudalur - Mudumalai Forest - Theppakadu - Bandipur - Nalpak restaurant, Mysore - A2B food plaza - Bengaluru

Distance covered on non-ghat roads : 552 km
Distance covered on ghat roads : 250 km
Total distance covered 802 km. Avg mileage achieved 18.1 km/ltr.

Highlights of Road condition:
Route
Road Condition
Information on the route
Bengaluru to Mandya
awesome, double road
Watch out for barricades
Mandya to Somanathapura
Mostly bad

Somanathapura to Nanjanagudu
Average

Nanjanagudu to Gundlupet
Average to Excellent
At some stretch Double road is getting constructed, and rest is already ready
Gundlupet to Bandipur
Good
Speed breakers at regular intervals to avoid speeding inside the wildlife sanctuary
Bandipur to Masinagudi
Mostly good, sometimes average
The roads on Karnataka stretch is good, but after entering Tamil Nadu the roads are average, with narrow roads, and pot holes some times
Masinagudi to Ooty
Very good
With 36 hairpin bends, road is smooth, wide enough for two cars to pass side-by-side, safety railings at steep edges and mirrors at every hairpin bend
Ooty to Kattabettu on Kotagiri highway
Good, sometimes very good
Very scenic road
Kattabettu to
Good, sometimes very good

Road in Coonoor town
Very bad, sometimes extremely bad
Narrow roads filled with big potholes
Coonoor to Dolphins Nose
Average, sometimes bad
Narrow roads and sometimes steep edges without proper protection railings
Coonoor to Culinarium restaurant
Good, sometimes very good

Culinarium restaurant to Ketti to
Narrow roads and sometimes steep edges without proper protection railings
Narrow roads and sometimes steep edges without proper protection railings
Good


Nanjangud - Mysore
mostly very good, sometimes average

Mysore - Bangalore
awesome, double road
Watch out for barricades

Pictures of the roads on Bengaluru-Ooty-Coonoor route
Nanjangud-BandipurBandipurMasinagudi-OotyOoty-Kattapettu-Kotagiri HighwayDolphins nose roadinitial stretch near Ketti









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