Ketti Valley Reserved Forest

Ketti Valley Reserved Forest is a forest in Coonoor, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. Ketti Valley Reserved Forest is situated nearby to the village Santhoor, as well as near Kammandu.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Doddabetta and Ketti railway station.

Doddabetta

Peak

Photo: Gauri Wur Sem, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Doddabetta is the highest mountain in the Nilgiri Mountains at 2,637 metres. There is a reserved forest area around the peak. It is 9 km from Ooty, on the Ooty-Kotagiri Road in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu, India.

Ketti railway station

Railway station

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Ketti railway station is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Salem railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in Ketti, a hill station town, in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.

Lovedale railway station

Railway station

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Lovedale railway station is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Salem railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station serving Lovedale, a town located south of Udhagamandalam, in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aruvankadu and Ooty.

Aruvankadu

Photo: Sayowais, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Aruvankadu, is a small town located in the Nilgiris of Tamil Nadu in India between Coonoor and Ooty, at distances 5 km and 12 km respectively. It houses the Cordite Factory, one of the 40 Indian Ordnance Factories, and one of the oldest, established in 1903.

Ooty

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Ooty, short for Ootacamund and officially Udhagamandalam, is a popular hill resort in the state of Tamil Nadu in Southern India. The name Udhagamandalam is derived from the Toda word "othakal-mund" which means "house in mountains".