The Phrygian Valley Nature Park covers 54.70 hectares at Akdere, near the village of Bayramaliler in the İhsaniye district of Afyonkarahisar, and was declared on 1 June 2017. Its stated visitor capacity is 28, which is worth knowing before planning a trip.
Black pine dominates the site, in places thinly and in places densely, and the Directorate notes plainly that the form of these trees is poor. Beneath them grow juniper and cistus, with thyme and milk-vetch among the herbs. Survey work across the Phrygian valley as a whole — not this park alone — has identified 855 species and infraspecific taxa belonging to 388 genera in 80 families. The animals are described only in general terms: fox, wild boar, wolf, tortoise, buzzard and eagle are given as examples.
The volcanic tuff of the area has weathered into fairy chimneys of various forms, which can be seen both at the park's edges and in the middle of it. Around the park, rather than inside it, stand Phrygian rock monuments and altars, together with rock settlements, tomb chambers and a church of the Roman and Byzantine periods — evidence that this was a centre used by one civilisation after another for thousands of years.
The park serves day visits. There are shelters, lavatories, a children's playground and one kiosk. Walking, photography, camping, riding and cycling excursions, and plant and animal watching are the activities it is set up for.
- Designated
- 1.06.2017
Entry fee
- Aegean group 3 · category 1 · Per person
- 65 ₺
When to go
- Climate
- Across Afyonkarahisar as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.4 °C in January to 22.2 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (56 mm) and lightest in August (14 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
