Koilkonda Fort
Byline
- The Hiking World editorial · author
Desk byline for seed records. Named surveying editors replace this once a trail is verified.
Qutb Shahi hill fort above Koilkonda, Mahabubnagar district. The mapped pin is the village / Wikipedia coordinate; the fort sits on a nearby hilltop that OSM does not separately name. Days (1) is a day-trek stamp.
Figures marked provisional are seed data and still need verification. Source and last-checked date sit under each cited value.
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Option B ingest (2026-08-20): Overpass found no hiking relation, no named path, and no historic=fort node. Geometry is pin-to-pin between OSM village node 7133194752 (wikidata Q3416891) and Wikipedia Koilkonda 16°45′31″N 77°47′20″E (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koilkonda, checked 2026-08-20). That 2D length is not a walking distance. Indiahikes ~4 km is a lead only.
Wikipedia describes a canyon (west) or streams (east) before steps and seven gates, with an Ibrahim Qutb Shah inscription dated 1550 on the first gate. Wikipedia cites an average elevation of 464 m for Koilkonda; DEM at the village pin is 429 m (copernicus-dem:glo-30). The hilltop fort was not separately sampled. Official gallery page was not fetched this pass (timeout).
Water
No water sources recorded.
Permits & fees
Permit status is unverified. Permit and fee fields were not sourced from OSM. Confirm locally before travel. Official tariff pages were not fetched or did not state a walking/entry fee this pass; left unverified rather than asserted.
Getting there
- Koilkonda (OSM village) car-free: unknown
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Hazards
- Deep canyon (west approach) or streams (east) before the steps (Wikipedia Koilkonda, checked 2026-08-20)