The forest department portal shows you one trek, on one date, at a time. Aranya shows every trek you follow across the next 30 days of weekends — in a single screen that updates itself.
Built for trek organisers planning group departures
One-time payment · No auto-renew · No card stored
And the answer is stale by the time you've finished, so you start again.
Open slots are tinted green with the seats remaining. Sold out is deliberately quiet — it's the boring answer, so it gets out of your way.
| Trek | Sat12 | Sun13 | Sat19 | Sun20 | Sat26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KudremukhaChikkamagaluru | sold out0/300 | sold out0/300 | open42/300 | open118/300 | unreleased |
| BandajeChikkamagaluru | sold out0/120 | open9/120 | open64/120 | sold out0/120 | unreleased |
| KurinjalChikkamagaluru | open27/200 | open153/200 | open180/200 | open191/200 | unreleased |
| NetravathiDakshina Kannada | sold out0/150 | sold out0/150 | sold out0/150 | open31/150 | unreleased |
Sample view. Your board shows the treks you choose.
Every trek you follow, every Saturday and Sunday in the booking window, with live seat counts and a bar showing how full each slot is.
Any single trek, day by day across a whole month — including weekdays, for groups that don't travel at the weekend.
Watching one specific departure? Pin that trek and date and it stays at the top of your board.
The board refreshes on its own while it's open. No reloading, no re-navigating the portal.
The same board on mobile, which is where you'll actually check it when a client asks whether a date is still open.
Reorder treks, group by district, switch the window between 7, 14 and 30 days, and adjust the type size and theme.
Choose from the full catalogue of treks on the portal. Add or remove them whenever you like.
Availability for all of them, side by side, across the whole booking window.
When you see what you need, you book it on the forest department's own site. Aranya never takes a trek booking or a trek payment.
Pay again whenever you want more time. Prices include all taxes.
The slot board is the first piece. The plan is to connect the people a trek actually depends on. None of the following is built yet, and none of it is included in the ₹99 today — it's here so you know the direction.
Where your group sleeps the night before, with prices, in the same place you checked the slots.
Tempo travellers and jeeps that actually run those routes, with the operators who know them.
A way for trekkers to find the organisers running a departure, rather than the other way round.
If there's an official route to doing this properly, we'd rather take it than scrape a public page.
No. Aranya is independent and unofficial, with no affiliation to or endorsement from the Forest Department. The official portal is aranyavihaara.karnataka.gov.in and that is where all trek bookings and payments happen.
No, and that's deliberate. Aranya only shows you what the portal is already showing publicly, gathered into one view. You book on the official portal. The ₹99 is for access to the board, and buys nothing on the portal itself.
No. Bookings open at a fixed time that everyone already knows, and this portal doesn't cancel or re-release tickets — so there's no surprise moment worth alerting on. Aranya is a board you check, not a race you win. Anyone selling you alerts for this is selling you something that doesn't help.
The board re-checks continuously and shows when it last updated. It reads the portal's own public pages, so if the portal is slow, wrong or down, the board reflects that. Always confirm on the official portal before promising a seat to a client.
Access simply stops. There's no auto-renew and no subscription to cancel — nothing is charged again unless you choose to pay again. Your trek list is kept, so it's all still there when you come back.
Create an account, confirm your email, and pay ₹99 online by UPI, card, net banking or wallet through Razorpay. Access switches on the moment the payment is confirmed, and a receipt is emailed to you.
An account is for one person. There's a limit on how many devices can watch the board at once, and heavy sharing may get an account suspended. If you need several people on it, get in touch and we'll work something out.
Create an account, pick your treks, and see the whole month at once.
Get access — ₹99 for 30 days