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Illustration of trucks stopped at night in heavy rain where a landslide has buried the road above the Trishuli river.
Road statusChecked 2 October 2026

Prithvi Highway status today

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Krishnabhir, the Narayanghat to Muglin road and the other routes into the Valley · as of 2 October 2026

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Routes, as of 2 October 2026 · Pinned

Road status

Roads in this condition change within hours. Before you set out, please ring Traffic Police on 103.

Routes into the Kathmandu Valley, as of 2 October 2026Routes into the Kathmandu Valley, as of 2 October 2026Schematic, not to scale. The line style and the label both say the state, not the colour alone.??KathmanduNaubiseMuglinNarayanghatto PokharaHetaudaBidurBetrawatiSyaphrubesiRasuwagadhiTatopaniDhulikhelto SindhuliPrithvi HighwayOne wayKanti LokpathBlockedMahendra HighwayNo recent reportBP HighwayOpenTribhuvan HighwayNo recent reportRasuwa roadClosed or destroyedAraniko HighwayOne wayOpenOne wayBlockedClosed or destroyedNo recent report
Each line shows the newest report we found, and the list under the map names the outlet and date. A road we could not find a recent report on is drawn grey with a question mark, not as open.Imperial College of Engineering. Schematic, not to scale.

  • Prithvi Highway

    One way at a time at Krishnabhir and at Chalise in Dhading; open to all vehicles since 30 September

    Rain from 24 September brought landslides down at Krishnabhir, Chaukibhir, Jawang Khola and Fisling and closed the road from 26 September. The Dhading administration let every type of vehicle back on from 1 pm on 30 September, and warned that fresh landslides could come down at any time. On 1 October Ratopati reported traffic one way only at Chalise in Gajuri-2, Dhading, after another landslide, and the Department of Roads had already said on 29 September that Krishnabhir was running one way while the second lane is restored. We found no report on Krishnabhir, Chaukibhir, Jawang Khola or Fisling after 30 September. The Narayanghat to Muglin road reopened both ways at 12:15 pm on 27 September (Nepalnews). The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said on 2 October that no significant rain-bringing system is expected and that the monsoon could withdraw completely by Dashain, though occasional drizzle is possible. This is the road anyone coming from Pokhara, Chitwan or Butwal travels on, so please ring Traffic Police on 103 on the morning you set out.

    Sources: Dhading administration via Khabarhub, 30 September; Ratopati, 1 October; Nepalnews, 27 September (Narayangadh to Muglin); OnlineKhabar, 2 October (weather).

  • Kanti Lokpath (Kathmandu to Hetauda)

    Reported blocked by a landslide at Takurche in Lalitpur on 2 October

    Nepalnews reported on 2 October that the road is completely blocked by a landslide at Takurche, Bagmati Rural Municipality-3, Lalitpur. It had reopened one way on 29 September after being shut for several days, after the rain of 24 to 27 September (OnlineKhabar), so this is either a new slide or a second closure, and the report gives no hour. Treat the road as closed until Traffic Police on 103 or the Makwanpur police say otherwise. The Balkhu, Kulekhani, Bhimphedi and Hetauda road was reported open by the Department of Roads on 29 September and we have found nothing newer.

    Sources: Nepalnews, 2 October; OnlineKhabar, 29 September (reopened one way).

  • Mahendra Highway (Chitwan section)

    No report found after the closure of 26 September

    The Chitwan administration stopped travel on the Mahendra and Prithvi highways on 26 September (Kathmandu Post). The Prithvi side has since reopened. We have not found any report that the Mahendra Highway order was lifted or still stands, so ask 103 about it before you set out.

    Sources: Kathmandu Post, 26 September.

  • BP Highway (Kavrepalanchok)

    Open again since about 10 am on 29 September, on a permanent track still under construction

    The flooded Roshi blocked the Bhakundebesi to Mangaltar section at eight places and stopped traffic for five days, with vehicles first sent along a temporary track in the river bed. The Kathmandu Post reported that vehicles began using a permanent track still under construction at around 10 am on 29 September. It did not say whether the road is one way or two. We found nothing newer. This is the road into the Valley from the east and from Sindhuli.

    Sources: Kathmandu Post, 29 September.

  • Tribhuvan Highway (Nagdhunga and Pataleban)

    One way, inbound only, when last reported on 25 September

    OnlineKhabar quoted the traffic police spokesperson on 25 September that landslides near Nagdhunga and Pataleban had cut the road to one-way traffic into the Valley. We found no report from 30 September to 2 October. This is the western entry into the Kathmandu Valley, so allow extra time if you come in from Naubise or the Prithvi Highway.

    Sources: OnlineKhabar, 25 September.

  • Rasuwa highways (Trishuli to Rasuwagadhi)

    Closed beyond Betrawati; a temporary track reached Betrawati on 30 September

    The police told Nepalnews on 2 October that the main highways in Rasuwa stay closed until further notice. Ratopati reported on 30 September that a track cut by the Nepali Army and the Department of Roads reached Betrawati after a month. A 73-metre Acro bridge there is expected in five to seven days if the weather allows, and a 76-metre Bailey bridge is planned at Syaphrubesi once 100 to 150 metres of slide is cleared. The Friendship Bridge at Rasuwagadhi went in the flood and Kerung stays closed; the government aims to reopen the Rasuwagadhi checkpoint by Dashain, with no firm date. Across the whole reach, 69 kilometres of road and 33 motorable bridges were completely destroyed.

    Sources: Ratopati, 30 September; Nepalnews, 2 October.

  • Araniko Highway and the Tatopani crossing

    The Nepali road is one way; China has kept the Tatopani crossing closed since 31 August

    The chief of the Division Road Office in Charikot told OnlineKhabar on 30 September that the Nepali side is one way during the monsoon, that improvements can be finished in one to two days, and that two-way traffic is planned once the rain stops. China closed the Tatopani crossing citing road conditions on the Nepali side, and we found no Chinese order reopening it, so anything going north through Tatopani should be treated as stopped.

    Sources: OnlineKhabar, 30 September.

The IOE flood sitting at Pulchowk Campus is five papers, 2 to 9 October, every one at 1:00 pm (notice 15539, on our notice board). Please reach the Valley the day before your own paper, and see getting to the examination hall for what the road status means for your year.

Last reviewed by Imperial College of Engineering. Each route names the outlet and date it came from.

The bridges and the road that were lost

What the flood took

By the count of 30 September 2026, the flood destroyed 33 motorable bridges and 69 kilometres of road between Rasuwagadhi and Malekhu. Where a crossing went, a helicopter was the only way in or out of the settlement behind it. On the Rasuwa road the Army and the Department of Roads were building three replacements:

  • Devighat: a Bailey bridge, finished.
  • Betrawati: a 73-metre Acro bridge, foundations done, five to seven days if the weather allows.
  • Syaphrubesi: a 76-metre Bailey bridge from Army stock, after 100 to 150 metres of slide is cleared.
A steel truss bridge folded into a brown flooded river, with a man walking the road on the far bank
One of the 41 bridges. Where a crossing went, a helicopter is currently the only way in or out of the settlement behind it.Sujan Gurung, The Rising Nepal.
Villagers with bags carried toward a Nepali Army helicopter on a stony riverbank during the flood rescue
A Nepali Army helicopter lifting people out of the flood-hit reach. The Army took 833 people out on 27 August alone, and 13,795 have been rescued since the flood.Nepali Army, via The Rising Nepal.

Sources: Ratopati, 30 September 2026, on the Betrawati track, the two bridges and the 69 km and 33 bridges; Department of Roads figures of 29 August superseded by that count.

What the valley looks like now

From the air and from orbit

A road is only as good as the ground under it, and the ground along this river has changed. The satellite frame below is the same valleys on the day of the flood, and the town beside it sits on a channel a different width from the one it was built next to. Stretches of the valley floor are carrying an estimated ten to eighteen metres of new sediment, which is why rebuilding the road is a survey problem before it is a construction one.

Satellite view of the same valleys on the day of the flood, a wide brown scour running down the river
The same frame on 26 August, hours after. The brown is the river, and it is that wide for 72 kilometres.Landsat 9, USGS.
Aerial view of a riverside town with a helicopter overhead beside a river channel widened by the flood
A town on the new edge. Every settlement along this river is now beside a channel a different width from the one it was built next to.Kamal Prasai and Dinesh Gautam, Onlinekhabar.
European Commission map of the ice-rock avalanche, the flood path down the Trishuli, and deaths by district
The whole event on one sheet: the avalanche that started it, the path the water took, the districts it killed people in, and the river gauge at Malekhu recording the wave arrive.The impact figures printed on this map are the count at 1:00 pm on 27 August, four days before the ones above it. It is here for the geography, not the numbers.ERCC / DG ECHO daily map, 27 August 2026. European Union.

Why Krishnabhir keeps closing

Engineering

The slope at Krishnabhir above the Trishuli first failed in 1999 and blocked the highway for more than eleven days in 2000. According to Makalu Khabar, its protective works had a design life of about twenty years, and it started moving again in October 2025. The 26 August flood undercut the road. It reopened on a newly cut track on 17 September, the rain from 24 September brought mud and rock down onto it again, and it reopened to all vehicles on 30 September with one lane through Krishnabhir. On 2 October the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said no significant rain-bringing system was expected and that the monsoon could withdraw completely by Dashain, though occasional drizzle was still possible. Please still allow extra time at Krishnabhir, where traffic moves one way at a time. The engineering behind that is in our report on the Rasuwa flood and the Krishnabhir landslide.

Sources: Department of Roads via Republica, 26 September 2026; Kathmandu Post, 26, 27, 28 and 29 September 2026; Ratopati, 27 September, 30 September and 1 October 2026; Dhading District Administration Office via OnlineKhabar, 30 September 2026; Nepalnews and OnlineKhabar, 2 October 2026; NDRRMA Situation Report #20, 21 September 2026; Makalu Khabar on the history of the Krishnabhir slope. Helplines for every province are on the emergency page.