Zigana Yaylası sits at 2,032 metres and, unlike most plateaus in the region, it has working services rather than only pasture.
The provincial directorate lists electricity, drinking water, a radio-telephone link and an 800-metre ski lift used for ski instruction, together with a hotel, a restaurant, a country coffee house, a grill restaurant, a grocer, a butcher and a greengrocer.
There are two ways up. From the Gümüşhane-Trabzon road, pass the Zigana tunnel at the 50th kilometre and continue 3.5 kilometres on unsurfaced road. Those arriving by air can take a bus from Trabzon, 50 kilometres away on asphalt.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Gümüşhane as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -1.7 °C in January to 20.3 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (70 mm) and lightest in August (14 mm). Long-term means for 1961-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
