Is the road open?

Every restriction the Roads Department of Georgia currently has posted on the road into Upper Svaneti — Zugdidi to Mestia and on to Ushguli, the Chuberi branch and the Lentekhi back road — in the Department's own words.

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The official channels

Roads Department of Georgia — RestrictionsThe page this one reads, in English. Always the authority; check it before you drive.

Mestia municipality — +995 595 08 95 30The hotline can confirm road status by phone, in Georgian or English.

112 — Georgia's emergency numberFor an emergency anywhere on the road, call 112.

Worth knowing

"Nothing posted" is not the same as "clear"

The Department posts when a stretch is restricted and again when it is restored. It does not publish a running all-clear, so a corridor with nothing on this page is one the Department has said nothing about today — not one it has confirmed open. In winter especially, ring the municipality hotline or ask a driver before committing to the climb.

A restriction can be about your vehicle, not the road

Many notices here restrict only certain vehicles: trailers, semi-trailers and M3 category buses were prohibited above Mestia through last winter while everything else drove freely, and above Ulakhi light vehicles needed anti-skid chains. Those are shown as restrictions rather than closures, and the Department's own sentence says which vehicles it means.

Where this road actually breaks

Rockfall between Kala and Ushguli closed the road on 26 March and again on 14 April 2026, both times reopening the next morning; a rockfall at km 179 closed it for ten hours overnight on 3–4 May. In July, landslides at Tsana and Koruldi and flooding at the Sakdri bridge cut the Lentekhi back road and the Ushguli–Lasdili section for four days. The pattern is short, sharp and seasonal rather than long closures — which is exactly why a page that is out of date by a day is worse than no page.

A restriction nobody lifts is eventually dropped

Seasonal restrictions sometimes lapse without a notice saying so — the winter snow-and-ice limits above Mestia simply stop being enforced in spring. So a restriction that nothing has superseded after a month stops being shown here. If you need certainty about an older one, the Department's page keeps every notice.