Georgia: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Gudauri has one driving restriction on our books: the დუშეთის მუნიციპალიტეტის ტერიტორიაზე, ადგილობრივი მნიშვნელობის ზოგიერთ… (heavy vehicle ban). What is a heavy vehicle ban?
Sources last read on 2026-09-19, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2027-03-19.
Gudauri is Georgia's main ski resort, on the Georgian Military Highway over the Cross Pass, and through the ski season its local access roads are closed to goods vehicles from Friday morning to Monday morning.
The rule is decree №28 of the Dusheti Municipality Sakrebulo, adopted on 26 December 2019, published on the register's website on 30 December 2019 and in force since 1 January 2020, made under article 16(2)(k), article 24(2) and article 61(1)-(2) of the Local Self-Government Code.
Article 1 restricts the movement of freight vehicles of categories №1, №2 and №3 "for the purpose of carrying out economic activity", from the official opening of the winter season to its official closing, every Friday from 10:00 until Monday at 10:00.
It applies to every local-importance motor road in the part of Gudauri that falls inside Dusheti Municipality's administrative boundaries, and it names two of them: the road from the international-importance road to the Marco Polo hotel, and the access road from the international-importance road to the gondolas. Three things this decree does not do are as important as what it does.
It does not touch the international-importance road itself — the highway through the pass is not a local-importance road, and nothing here closes it. It does not define its own categories №1, №2 and №3, so the record does not equate them with any other classification.
And it does not date the season: "official opening" and "official closing" are events the decree leaves to be announced elsewhere, so there is no month here from which a driver could work out whether today is inside the season. Article 2 sends a driver who breaks the time or the place to the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia without naming an article of it, so this record carries no figure for the fine.
The scheme has no name of its own; the title above is the decree's.