Hacıosman forest is a flood-plain forest, and the nature conservation directorate calls it a rare and endangered alluvial forest ecosystem of European importance. What sets it apart from other flood-plain forests is the regionally endemic Caucasian wingnut that grows in it; beech, sessile and pedunculate oak, hornbeam, walnut and nettle grow there as well.
It was registered in 1987 and covers 127.77 hectares at Çınarlık in the Çarsamba district of Samsun, 23.5 kilometres from the centre of Samsun. Public transport reaches it; by car, take the Ordu road from Samsun, turn left at the 20th kilometre towards the Aksa farm enterprises and follow 3.5 kilometres of gravel road. It has capacity for 250 visitors and 100 vehicles.
The mammals recorded inside the boundary are roe deer, wild boar, golden jackal, red fox, hedgehog, marten and mole, and among reptiles there is the spur-thighed tortoise along with various snakes and frogs. The reserve lies at Çınarlık, twenty kilometres west of Çarşamba, and there is a second approach: the area can also be reached from the Çarşamba airport road.
Expect nothing built. The reserve holds an administrative building and nothing besides it, and the uses the directorate names are nature walks, photography, photo safari and wildlife observation.
- Designated
- 7.04.1987
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 09:00 - 19:00
When to go
- Climate
- Across Samsun as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.2 °C in February to 23.7 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in November (83 mm) and lightest in July (35 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
