Goravanahalli Mahalakshmi Temple

A forested granite hill about 16 km east of Tumakuru with the twin Yoganarasimha (base) and Bhoganarasimha (summit) temples built and renovated by the Mysore Wodeyars, plus a Sanjeevaraya (Hanuman) shrine — the district’s signature hill-temple climb.

A perennial rock spring in the Devarayanadurga foothills, said in legend never to dry (Rama’s arrow), with an adjoining deer park and nursery — nearly always paired with the Devarayanadurga hill temples.

A 17th-century hill fort built by Chennappa Gowda about 10 km from Madhugiri, at some 1,130 m, with ruined tiered gateways and herb-rich slopes — a rewarding, quieter trek than Madhugiri.

A rocky hill on the Tumakuru–Gubbi border, also called Basadi Betta, topped by old Jain basadis and the modern Sri 1008 Chandraprabha Digambar Jain complex, reached by a long stone stairway with wide plateau views.

A fort climbing one of Asia’s largest monolithic granite hills at Madhugiri, ~45 km north-east of Tumakuru, with multi-tier gateways, cisterns and a Gopalakrishna temple ruin near the top — the district’s signature trek, ASI-protected.

The Veerashaiva monastery near Kyatsandra of the late Shivakumara Swami — the "walking god" — with a Siddhalingeshwara shrine on the rock and a vast free residential school; one of Karnataka’s most revered living maths.

A Hoysala temple about 10 km south of Tumakuru at Kaidala, the village of the legendary sculptor Amarashilpi Jakanachari, holding a fine Chennakeshava (Kesava) image; the Someshwara and Kodirameshwara shrines stand nearby. (Distinct from the Chennakeshava temples of Belur and Somanathapura.)

The state’s protected blackbuck grassland at Maidenahalli in Madhugiri taluk, on the Tumakuru–Andhra frontier, home to a large blackbuck herd along with wolves, foxes and grassland birds.

A Lakshminarasimha temple at Seebi on the Tumakuru–Sira road, celebrated for its 18th-century painted ceilings and terracotta and stucco work — one of the district’s most colourful temple interiors.

The Chennabasaveshwara math-temple of the historic trading town of Gubbi on NH-206 west of Tumakuru, with the nearby Gadde Malleshwara shrine — an anchor of the town’s Veerashaiva heritage.

A ruined hill fort about 22 km north of Madhugiri with a summit Hanuman shrine and old fortifications — a lesser-known trek of the northern Tumakuru country.

The four-sided fort of Sira, founded by Rangappa Nayaka and later a Bijapur–Mughal Deccan provincial capital, with the ASI-protected 17th-century Jama Masjid and the nearby Malik Rihan tomb complex — a Deccan-Islamic heritage cluster ~54 km north-west of Tumakuru.