Changelog

The page described the Roads Department's site as "mostly in Georgian". Its restriction notices are published in English, which is how the new "Is the road open?" page reads them. The link and the note about who decides a closure now say so.

The Roads Department of Georgia posts every restriction and every reopening as a news notice, mixed in with every other road in the country. This page reads those notices and keeps the ones about the road here: Zugdidi to Mestia and on to Ushguli, the Khaishi branch to Chuberi and Nakra, and the Lentekhi back road over the Zagar pass. Restrictions appear in the Department's own words, with the kilometres they cover and the date they were posted. Nothing is standing today. One thing worth knowing: the Department posts restrictions and reopenings, never a running all-clear, so a stretch with nothing on the page is one it has said nothing about — not one it has confirmed clear. In winter, ring the municipality on +995 595 08 95 30 before you commit to the climb, and 112 in an emergency.

The lift-status link on "Who to call in Mestia" and "Mestia month by month" pointed at a page that no longer exists; both now go to the Mountain Trails Agency, which stays up year-round and says where the in-season board lives. "Getting in and out of Mestia" said flight fares had risen above the old 90 lari — Vanilla Sky still publishes 90, so that is what the page says now, with the child fare and the baggage limit. The road pages also carry the municipality's own marshrutka fares and departure times.

The Sakrebulo set every village bus fare by decree — 1 lari from Lenjeri, 8 from Khaishi — and the mayor's office publishes the intercity table, both as Georgian documents buried on mestia.gov.ge. They are all on one page now, in English, with the flight fares beside them. The Ushguli vans and the trailhead taxis are on the same page marked plainly as having no published price at all, because they don't.

Upper Svaneti's hub town now has seven tools. New this round: the mountain conditions above town — the freezing level, the wind high on the massif and the snow, read live for the Ushba–Tetnuldi skyline — and a day-hike planner that works out whether you'll be back before dark on the Chalaadi Glacier, the Cross above Mestia, the Koruldi Lakes and the Zuruldi ridge, with the wind you'd meet up top. They join the road-weather board for the road in from Zugdidi, the flight-versus-road guide, the month-by-month guide, who to call, and the practical FAQ.