Live road status · Northern Pakistan
Mansehra district police closed the Naran–Babusar road on 11 Nov after heavy snowfall; it may stay shut for the winter season. Traffic up to Naran remains open.
Mansehra district police closed the Naran–Babusar road on 11 Nov after heavy snowfall; it may stay shut for the winter season. Traffic up to Naran remains open.
Babusar Top (about 4,170m) is the seasonal shortcut between Naran in the Kaghan Valley and Chilas on the Karakoram Highway. Because it is high, exposed and avalanche-prone in winter, it is one of the first passes in Pakistan to close and one of the last to reopen. Until it opens again in summer, all Gilgit-Baltistan traffic uses the Karakoram Highway.
No. Babusar Top was closed by Mansehra district police on 11 November 2026 after heavy snowfall, and in a normal year the pass shuts for winter with the first heavy snow in late October or November. It does not reopen until the summer season.
Babusar Top typically reopens around mid-June, once the National Highway Authority clears the winter snow — in some years it opens in late May or early July depending on snowfall. The normal season runs from about mid-June to mid-October.
The Karakoram Highway via Besham and Chilas is the year-round route into Gilgit-Baltistan. It is longer than the Babusar shortcut, but it stays open through winter, apart from short landslide or fog closures.
Yes. The road up to Naran town remains open and Naran receives snowfall tourists in November. The police closure is beyond Bassal, on the climb towards Babusar Top.
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