Topalçam Nature Park sits at the Sivri Tepe locality just outside Boyabat in Sinop province, two kilometres from the town and 88 from Sinop city. Fifteen hectares were declared a nature park by ministerial approval on 11 July 2011, on the strength of the vegetation and the site's value for recreation.
The cover is red pine with meadow grasses, shrubby plants, juniper and dwarf oak. The animals listed are various birds, wild boar, snakes and lizards, squirrel and hare.
This is a park built for families rather than left wild. There is an entrance control unit, a country coffee house and a country restaurant, a walking path and a cycle path, toilets and a prayer room, a greenhouse, an adventure play structure, a grass amphitheatre, a children's playground and picnic units. Picnicking, walking, trekking, outdoor events and children's activities are the listed uses, and the directorate says people from Sinop choose it for recreation, mainly in spring and summer. Capacity is 1,000 visitors and 250 vehicles. There is no concessionaire; the administration runs it directly.
Other distances given are 30 kilometres to Saraydüzü and 36 to Durağan.
- Designated
- 11.07.2011
Entry fee
- Black Sea group 2 · category 1 · Per person
- 65 ₺
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 08:00 - 20:00
When to go
- Climate
- Across Sinop as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.8 °C in February to 23.4 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (92 mm) and lightest in July (34 mm). Long-term means for 1936-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
