Görnek Nature Park is in the Çaykara district of Trabzon, declared a nature park on 11 July 2011 and open twenty-four hours. It is run by the Çaykara forest management directorate.
Almost the whole of the park is woodland, and that has allowed a great many plant and animal species to live within it. Among the plants recorded are oriental spruce, Scots pine, eastern Black Sea fir, bearded alder, oriental beech, Anatolian chestnut, beech-trunked maple, aspen, goat willow, rowan, sessile and Istranca oaks, common hornbeam, five-fingered maple, the yellow- and purple-flowered rhododendrons, honeysuckle of the Caucasus, bramble and dwarf elder.
The park lies far from the centre of Çaykara, and it is said not to have been made widely enough known in the years since it was declared.
- Designated
- 11.07.2011
Entry fee
- Black Sea group 2 · category 1 · Per person
- 65 ₺
When to go
- Climate
- Across Trabzon as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.3 °C in February to 23.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (113 mm) and lightest in July (37 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
