Chaskaman Dam- A Day Trip from Pune

 

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It’s been many days haven’t gone anywhere and also the cases decreased after the third wave. So we had to go somewhere out for an outing. We wanted to go for a one day trip and less crowded as well, so we choose to go Chaskaman Dam.

Backwater

Chaskaman Dam is 66 KMs away from Pune. From Pune you need to drive on Nashik road until Rajgurunagar and take left turn and follow Wada road to reach Chaskaman Dam. It is one of Maharashtra's most important dams, and it is located in the Pune district of Rajgurunagar on the Bhima River. It's near Village Bibi in the Khed taluka, across the Bhima river in the Krishna basin. The dam's primary goal was to improve irrigation and provide electricity to local communities. The construction of this dam was started in month of July in year 2002 and completed during 2008-2009.

View Point

View Point

As usual got late and we started nearly 10 AM and it took us nearly one and half hours to reach the location. If you set location on navigator it will take you to the back water and on the turn you will see there are few food vendors. You need to park your vehicle on the road, from there itself you can see the backwater and to go near the water you need to go down 15-20 steps from road, walk 50-60 steps to reach water.

Road View

Going near Backwater

We have spent good quality time sitting, eating and playing games near the backwater. There were few people seeing fishing from the ground and few of them where in the small boats. Kids also had a fun time in water. 

Kid Fun time

Kids Fun time

Some scenic view

Scenic view

Scenic view

Scenic view

After spending 3-4 hours we came one KM back and took a right turn to go to Dam. From the bridge it looks very awesome and need to walk a KM to climb the dam bridge. It is having 5 gates and the water flowing over the gates gives good view. I never had a very closer look of the dam before this. 

Chaskaman Dam Front View

Chaskaman Dam Side View

 Back water from Dam bridge

Front view from Dam

The location of the dam will mesmerize as when you look around from the dam bridge gives an awesome view of dam construed around the mountains. After spending some time in there and clicking many pictures we started back to home.

Surrounding view from Dam- Left View

Surrounding view from Dam

This place is a nice and calm for a day trip in the lap of mother nature. You will feel relax as it’s not crowed and also not far from the Pune city. 

View the video of the place.