Kerwa dam is a popular picnic spot at Mendora village, near Bhopal city of Madhya Pradesh. It is around 15kms from Bhopal city and very well connected by road. It was developed as an eco-tourism site where Bhopal people can spend their day while enjoying the scenic nature, birding, adventure games etc. It covers 69sq.kms. area which includes it catchment area. It is a multi-purpose dam which is used for generation of Hydro-electric power, fulfill water requirement of Bhopal city and to develop an eco-tourism site where people can visit to spend their weekend time and children can enjoy the picnic. Here management authority is Kerwa Eco-tourism Development Society which manages the ground management. In order to avoid overcrowding and do proper management for visitors convenience, they charge a nominal entry fee from visitors so that interested people will visit this place and management practices can be implemented on ground. Rules and regulations are most important part to develop tourism at any place thus they are doing very good job.
Basically we should see this place as eco-tourism site thus during your visit we can visit around the place and enjoy the scenic nature in the form of huge backwater area and lush green hills surrounding to it. It is a paradise for nature photographers thus try to travel with your camera in hand and capture the scenic views. Nature walk is popular activity that tourists love to do here. During the period of Aug to November, we can experience good presence of butterflies thus nature lovers can do butterfly photography, along with some birding.
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Bhopal to Kerwa Dam | 15 km |
Sanchi to Kerwa Dam | 65 km |
Bhimbetka Rock Shelters to Kerwa Dam | 50 km |
Bhopal Airport to Kerwa Dam | 26 km |
Bhojpur Temple to Kerwa Dam | 35 km |
Udaigiri Caves to Kerwa Dam | 90 km |
As it is a dam site thus water level and climatic conditions are be best factors to decide its best time to visit. Here majority of tourists are citizens of Bhopal thus majority of crowd can be seen in weekend or school-holidays or government holiday dates. On the basis of climatic condition, best time to visit Kerwa dam is from October to March. Majority of holidays, festival holidays falls in this period and at the same time climatic condition also remain pleasant in this period.