Kallati Forest Check Post

1 KM from kallaty water falls to have the vehicles slow down and check for any doubtful activities. The heavy vehicles are prohibited from entering in order to avoid the accidents, all vehicles are prohibited from crossing from 9 PM to 6 AM. You will find a forest officer at check post who will have confirmation from resort and then leave you to enter, they allow local vehicles with Tamilnadu number plate and do not allow Karnataka and Kerala vehicles without confirmation, but they do a little partiality if you pay them, they will leave you to goahead. So you can try speaking to them softly. There are goats roaming around blocking the way sometimes. If you have good contacts you will not face any problem.

There are two roads to Masinagudi, the longer route is 68kms and this route is 23kms but has very steep decline. They reduce vehicles on this route due to accidents while driving down to Masinagudi, so they only allow vehicles going to resort on the way and not vehicles going beyond that. But the time you reach this checkpost, they would've verified where you are going to at the Thalaikundha checkpost and only then you are allowed to enter this road. After driving 6 kms, you arrive at this Kalhatty checkpost, the officer will simply turn you away citing collector order but will let you pass if you pay 100rs, if you don't want to pay you'll have to drive back to Thalaikundha and then take the Gudalur route but you'll end up driving 74kms(6kms to Thalaikundha and another 68kms to Masinagudi) to reach Masinagudi (via Gudalur) instead of only 17 kms(from Kalhatty checkpost).

I was coming back from ooty towards mysore and here at 9am police stopped us and asked to go back to take gudalur route giving a reason that this is the tough route and accidents can happen. Later I decided to come back but a local guy asked me to pay some 200rs to the police to let us go. I did so and they left us to go...
If you are going in KL / KA registered vehicle then pay 200rs.

KA/KL vehicles are not allowed ... as thy tell it is accident prone area so restricting the vehicles... but TN vehicles are allowed ... guess those vehicles are accident proof 👎🏻

They stop the vehicles and check for the overheating of brakepads and all which is a good safety precaution. This road is very steep and is having a lot of twists and turns which causes braking too often and can cause brake failure. So this checkpost is a blessing in disguise to avoid accidents. They are not allowing other state vehicles through this road now a days.

They don't allow Karnataka vehicle registration while coming from Ooty to mysore near this forest check post. No sign boards or indication of this nor they don't inform while coming from mysore to ooty. # Ban Kallati forest check post officer

Kallatty is most dangerous road..
Total 36 dangerous hairpin bend..

Because of many accident and deaths right now local TN43 Vehicles only allowed in kallhatty road
We can see elephant and tiger also while driving in kallhatty road please be safe drive!

Forest guard only allows TN vehicles (private vehicle). All others needs to go back to Gudalur for Masanakudi or for Mysore.