Bülbül Pınarı is a picnic ground in forest five kilometres from the district town of Eldivan and 23 from Çankırı, reached by asphalt road. The woodland is pine and oak, with willow along the streams and smaller numbers of hazel, poplar, wild plum and hawthorn.
It is laid out over a wide area and equipped for a day out: tables and benches, barbecue places, drinking fountains, public lavatories, a kiosk, a rain shelter, a viewing terrace and tower, a car park, a children's playground, a wooden bridge on stone piers, and a bungalow-style rest house. Elsewhere in the district, the Karadere and Saray reservoirs, with the forest, fountains and springs around them, are also suitable for picnicking and camping.
Getting there
- Access
- A metalled road leads to the picnic ground in the woods five kilometres south of the centre of Eldivan.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Çankırı as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.4 °C in January to 23.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (57 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
