ir0001 - Arkavathy 150

About:

The Arkavathy 150 is a 150km route that starts at IISc in north Bangalore, and heads south to Kanakapura to meet the Arkavathy River, after which it is named. The route then traces the river upsteam towards Ramanagaram and Manchanbele, before heading back to IISc.

Surface:

Roads are in good to excellent shape for most of the route. One section has a few bad patches. There is another section with about 1 km of bad road.

Traffic:

NH 209 till Kanakpura has medium traffic, SH-85/Magadi Road on the return has light to medium traffic and the Mahalakshmipuram Layout road on the return has medium to heavy traffic. The rest of the route has very low traffic.

Terrain:

Here is the elevation profile generated from the GPX by utrack.crempa.net for the route, there is about 1300m of climbing, with some very steep climbs (6%) and descents.

Elevation Profile:

Map:

GPX: See the attachments at the bottom of this page.

Please note map and GPX are provided for convenience only. The cue-sheet is the only official route guide.

Cue-sheet

A cue-sheet is now available. Versions of the cuesheet suitable for printing on A4 paper are attached to that page.