Kaldurg Trek by NEST

Kaldurg Trek

Trek organized by NEST at Chahade, Palghar, Maharashtra

Happy faces when Kaldurg conquered by the team 

Participants :

Sachin Main, Hemant Kone, Pradeep Deshmukh, Niketan Kasare, Tushar Kurkute, Mukesh Rajvaidya, Shankar, Kumar Jain, Shlesh Jain, Jitesh Jain, Shailesh Jain, Rahul Jain, Vivek Jain, Prathmesh Raut, Ninad Gawde, Sunil Hudekar, Pranit Bari, Dipesh Bari, Pivesh Bari, Swapnil Bari, Viplav Bari, Akshat Bari and Nitesh Diwakar

About Kaldurg :

This Kaldurga fort is hill type fort and is located in the Thane District. The height of this fort is about 1550 feet. The fort range is Palghar and grade is medium. This Palghar range contains many hill forts and Kaldurg is one of them. The fort is lies on the border of the Javhar and Thane. All Mumbaikars enjoy this Palghar range as it is near to the Mumbai. There is no facility of food so one has carry food. There is no problem of water as water is available through out the year. You have to require minimum two and half hour to reach on the top of the fort from Waghoba Khind.

Attracting points are:

The top of the fort is just like rectagular. Actually the top of this fort is nothing but a one rectangular rock. Due to this rectangular shape of fort one can easily locate it from a distance. There is no sign which states that this is a fort. There is large number of forest trees on the fort so healthy population of tribes is on the fort. But standard of living is poor. Also there is a one tank and cistern is available on the top the fort. The fort is divided due to this rectangular rock as fort above the rock and fort below the rock. There are two to three steps which seperate these two parts.

How to reach : 

One can reach at Kaldurg fort from Mumbai. Take a western local train to Palghar. Hop on to the ST bus or DumDum which goes to Manor. Get down at the Waghoba Temple, Chahade stop. Right side trail of the Waghoba Temple goes up to the Fort.