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 Yedappalli	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 Manjoor road	Average, sometimes good	Narrow roads and sometimes steep edges without proper protection railings
Manjoor road to palada via Baramula, Meekery, and B. Manihatty	Bad, sometimes very bad	Narrow roads and sometimes steep edges without proper protection railings
Palada to Emerald Bazaar	Good
Emerald Bazaar to Avalanche Forest Reserve office	Very bad, sometimes extremely bad	Covered with huge trees, dangerous during wet season
Emerald Bazaar to Emerald Lake	Very bad	Covered with huge trees, dangerous during wet season
Emerald Bazaar to Ooty	Good
Ooty - Gudalur	good, sometimes very good	Many tourist attractions on the route
Gudalur - Theppakadu	Very bad, sometimes extremely bad	After Gudalur for some distance, the road is good, but later after you enter the Mudumalai forest road gets extremely bad, sometimes with potholes up to 1 foot deep
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