Gençlik Tabiat Parkı covers 5.09 hectares within the boundaries of Küçükköy village in the central district of Rize and was declared on 7 June 2022.
The tree cover is broadleaved: pedunculate and sessile oak, Anatolian chestnut, beech, hornbeam and bay, with cotoneaster, cornelian cherry, hawthorn, tree heath, bramble, ivy, greenbrier and ferns beneath them.
The mammals recorded are roe deer, wild boar, red squirrel, jackal, fox, hedgehog, martens and mole. Among the birds are Caucasian pheasant, chukar, swift, short-toed eagle, sparrowhawk, common buzzard, blackbird, night heron, kestrel, peregrine, merlin, quail, goldfinch, chaffinch, siskin, magpie, sparrow, jay and yellow-legged gull.
Stated capacity is 1,000 visitors. The park is 5 kilometres from the centre of Rize, reached by asphalt road through Ekmekçiler village: a kilometre past the settlement, turn east and the site is 500 metres further on. Rize-Artvin airport is 42 kilometres away.
- Designated
- 7.06.2022
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).
