At Gölü is one of the few lakes in Rize that can be reached without difficulty - but it still means a walk: in suitable weather, setting out from the Verçenik plateau, you reach the lake in at most two hours.
The path follows the river through country where the summer pasturing still goes on, past grazing land and herds, with the great north face of Verçenik in view the whole way.
Getting there
- Access
- Reached by way of the Verçenik plateau.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Rize as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.8 °C in February to 23.3 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (294 mm) and lightest in May (97 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
