Yellanahalli
Yellanahalli is a small town located in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu State, Southern India and is a Revenue Village of Coonoor taluk.
It is 10 km beyond Coonoor and 8 km before Ooty on the Coonoor-Ooty NH 67. It houses the Needle Industries India the manufacturers of the internationally branded ‘Pony Needles’. Near Yellanahalli are another two villages called Ketti and Aruvankadu. The Ketti Valley is located to the south-west of Yellanahalli and is also sometimes referred to as the Switzerland of Southern India due to the year-round climatic conditions which do not fall into any extremes, during summer and winter.
Getting around Yellanahalli the local way
- Get aroundTaxis, tourist cabs, auto rickshaws are available in plenty.
- Get aroundThere are around 3-4 different day trip routes/packages available.
From Wikivoyage: Ooty, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Sandip Bhattacharya from Bangalore, India (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.