[Samurai]

Originally Posted by Nithesh_M

Has anyone been through charmady to Mangalore lately? Shiradi route is an hour longer and I'm not sure how much better it is for me tonight.

Any other route I can take to reach Chickmagalur other than these 2? Preferably in better road conditions?

From Udupi I always take the Agumbe-Sringeri-Balehonnur route to CKM. From Mangalore, you can take Karkala-Hebri-Agumbe-Sringeri-Balehonnur route to CKM.

[Nithesh_M]

Originally Posted by Samurai

From Udupi I always take the Agumbe-Sringeri-Balehonnur route to CKM. From Mangalore, you can take Karkala-Hebri-Agumbe-Sringeri-Balehonnur route to CKM.

Any reason you wouldn't recommend the MLR-Karkala-Kudremukh-Sringeri-CKM route(204 kms or 5 hrs 22m) instead of Karkala-Hebri-Agumbe-Sringeri-Balehonnur (223 kms or 5 hrs 35 minutes)?

Reason I ask is Agumbe seems risky at midnight. I've not been through Kudremukh so I'm assuming its relatively safer passing at night?

Gmap still says charmadi hassan route is 4 hours 24mins and about 154kms. Very tempted but really not willing to abuse the car through the craters.

[Samurai]

Originally Posted by Nithesh_M

Any reason you wouldn't recommend the MLR-Karkala-Kudremukh-Sringeri-CKM route(204 kms or 5 hrs 22m)?

How do you get Sringeri if you go via Kudremukh? You must mean Balehonnur. Route via Kudremukh has lots of twisters and very slow, my family hates it. Heavy fog at night too.

You may be better off Shiradi after all. Roads are wider, lot less fog too. Roads are not that bad.

[BumbleBee201]

12 days of Dussehra Holidays with a Hyundai venue up to the brim with fuel was like a cake with a cherry on top of it so decided to visit Hassan as a short 1 day trip with my family.

Before the drive planned the route to Hassan via
Bangalore - Nelamangala - Yadiyur - Channarayanapatana - Hassan - Channarayanapatna - Yadiyur - Nelamangala - Bangalore.



Began the drive early at 7 o clock and started with a quick pace on the highway with a quick pitstop at Kamat. After the quick and relishing food started again with drive and reached Hassan by 10 AM.

Left Hassan at 1 PM and started the drive back with no stops on the smooth and quick highway and reached back Bangalore by 4 PM.

Thank you all Bhpians for reading my post

[Nithesh_M]

Originally Posted by Samurai

How do you get Sringeri if you go via Kudremukh? You must mean Balehonnur. Route via Kudremukh has lots of twisters and very slow, my family hates it. Heavy fog at night too.

You may be better off Shiradi after all. Roads are wider, lot less fog too. Roads are not that bad.

This Kudremukha Forest check point route.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/fh3qtUMpRRjFXaj86

Anyway i took the most painful route of them all. Charmady. I wouldn't wish it on my enemy, 30 40 kms of absolute butt jolting offroad session

[ampere]

Originally Posted by Nithesh_M

This Kudremukha Forest check point route.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/fh3qtUMpRRjFXaj86

Anyway i took the most painful route of them all. Charmady. I wouldn't wish it on my enemy, 30 40 kms of absolute butt jolting offroad session

The Kudremukh reserve is the right turn after this check post which goes to the Kudremukh town and there on to Kalasa. Sringeri wont show up on this route. That was the confusion mentioned earlier.

[Nithesh_M]

Originally Posted by ampere

The Kudremukh reserve is the right turn after this check post which goes to the Kudremukh town and there on to Kalasa. Sringeri wont show up on this route. That was the confusion mentioned earlier.

I Think Sam was suggesting the Karkala-Hebri-Agumbe-Sringeri route. Gmap shows a route from Karkala to Sringeri via the Hanumanagundi falls road. Is gmap wrong about that road option? Or is that an offroad trail?


Edit: to be clear i wrote "2" a bit far from the road i was trying to point there in the screenshot. Its the near vertical line from Karkala to Sringeri I was pointing at.

[manjubp]

Last week I just did option 2 via Bajagoly and Hanumana Gundi to Sringeri. Roads are excellent all the way to Sringeri, except few places near to Sringeri, where few bridges are still under construction.

[JMaruru]

Originally Posted by ampere

The Kudremukh reserve is the right turn after this check post which goes to the Kudremukh town and there on to Kalasa.

Originally Posted by Nithesh_M

Gmap shows a route from Karkala to Sringeri via the Hanumanagundi falls road. Is gmap wrong about that road option? Or is that an offroad trail?

There is a T-Junction right at the SK border on the way to Kalasa from Karkala. The left turn here goes to Sringeri. Straight ahead is Samse and Kalasa.

[Nithesh_M]

I returned via the Kudremukh national park route through Karkala and am now cursing myself for going to CKM via Charmady instead of this one. Many people took the Agumbe route from Sringeri which was an additional 15kms or 30 minutes as per map. Lucky for me I took the Kudremukh forest roads and only a handful of us and a TT were enroute. We got heavy rains as soon as we reached the entry point to the road and got token from cops at checkpost.

Saw two accidents. One a rolled over Swift Dzire in a ditch out of which a man was emerging from back door, we stopped for him and he told us everyone was taken already from there. So we go about 2 kms further from there and then we see an Innova that hit a rocky wall hard at high speeds, front was crushed badly but they managed to reverse it out somehow on its own power. Some passengers who hadn't worn seatbelt in the back I presume were lifted out and transported out in some of our convoy cars. The driver and others who had seat belts were walking around okay.

I loved the national park route but would not do it solo and definitely won't drive through it at night. Narrow roads, some unsighted potholes and you see nothing if it rains even during afternoons which is when we drove through.
There's no network for the hour it takes to pass through and humans are as rare as wild animals to spot. Drive through here only between sunrise and sunset and ensure you have a few cars with you as a convoy so if one of you has a car problem there is some level of backup. The narrow roads mean you will always have to go off the tarmac at many parts to let oncoming vehicles through and there's not a lot of space between the Tunga river and the tarmac. Very easy to fall off the roads and there's no guard rails either

The last photo is of a tea plantation on the Sringeri-CKM route. Only safe place for parking and taking photos. Unfortunately the place was littered by tourists

[G13BB]

Planning to visit Dharmasthala and Subrahmanya next weekend, the plan is in the order as below:
Bengaluru -> Subrahmanya -> Dharmasthala -> Bengaluru

Which is the best route to Subrahmanya? How is the Shiradi ghat now?
Also, which is the best route from Dharmasthala to Bengaluru? Shiradi ghat or Charmady ghat?

[Samurai]

Originally Posted by G13BB

Planning to visit Dharmasthala and Subrahmanya next weekend, the plan is in the order as below:
Bengaluru -> Subrahmanya -> Dharmasthala -> Bengaluru

Which is the best route to Subrahmanya? How is the Shiradi ghat now?
Also, which is the best route from Dharmasthala to Bengaluru? Shiradi ghat or Charmady ghat?

If you just read the earlier posts on this page, you will get the answer. Please read the recent few posts before asking a new query.

[Santroman]

Hi, how is the road from Bangalore to Magadi via Tavarekere, that is, via Magadi Road? Is there road work going on? How is the road till Tavarekere? Thanks.

Raghu

[scorp77]

Originally Posted by Santroman

Hi, how is the road from Bangalore to Magadi via Tavarekere, that is, via Magadi Road? Is there road work going on? How is the road till Tavarekere? Thanks.

Raghu

The Magadi road work is still not completed. There are some completed (and good) sections interspersed with muddy and uneven sections. The road after Magadi, towards Kunigal highway is completed and is a pleasure to drive. Road till Thavarakere is almost the same as i remember it. Once the road widening project is completed, this will be a good alternative for people wanting to avoid Nelamangala when coming from Mangalore/Udupi.

[Meph1st0]

Google map suggested me to drive over Netravati

I had an interesting experience on my return trip to Bengaluru. After Guruvayankere, I usually take the Guruvayankere-Dharmasthala-Nelyadi stretch. But google map showed high traffic (red) in the Dharmasthala-Nelyadi stretch and suggested to go via Guruvanaykere-Uppinangady-Nelyadi route or so I thought.

I had used this route during the onward journey and felt the road condition was worse than the alternative but decided to follow google map's advice. Somewhere around midway, google map suggested me to take a left and leave the state highway. I stopped to recheck the maps and indeed there seemed to be a way to bypass Uppinangady and reach Nelyadi and this also saves 20 minutes of travel time. I was happy with the suggestion and continued on the new route.
This route initially had very wide well-marked lanes, nicely tarred and some stretches were even concrete. There was a lot of greenary around and I was very happy. But after a while the road got narrower to a point where two cars would have difficulty to go side by side. I trusted google and continued further and after a while it appeared like a narrow single lane road. I just continued as there was no option to take a u-turn and I seemed to be on the right track (as per google). Finally I reach a point where I have to get down and drive over Netravati. Maybe trucks or pickups drive over the river in summers when the water level is low but definitely not now after the rains. I could also see a similar ramp on the other side. The actual bridge is under construction and does not seem to finish anywhere in the near future. Below video covers the route up to this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okqU...ature=youtu.be

As I was planning to reverse the car and go back, a person from the nearby house arrives. He tells me that several cars come here following google maps and suggested to continue on the another road (parallel to the river in the above video) instead of going all the way back. According to him, after going for about a km on the mud road, I would reach a proper tarred road. I thanked him and continued on the so called mud road. It was a mud road initially but after a while it was something else. The video does not do justice to the kind of stones that filled the road. At one point, I was unsure if the car would reach the top of incline. Luckily the car reached and I continued further on the "mud road" and after some time reached a proper tarred road and finally reached Uppinangady. Instead of savings 20 minutes, I lost more than an hour.

All said and done, it was fun and something to remember by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqi4tsAWITo

The below images show the river crossing that was suggested by google maps.





Now I have reported it, google shows that the route is not traversable.