Park · Küre Dağları, Kastamonu
Küre Mountains National Park
Küre Dağları Millî Parkı
A large forested national park of canyons, caves and waterfalls behind the western Black Sea coast in Kastamonu and Bartın, including Valla Canyon and the Çatak Canyon glass terrace.
Where it is
41.7443, 32.7935
Why go
Küre Mountains National Park covers about 37,750 ha in Kastamonu and Bartın provinces, behind the western Black Sea coast, and was declared in 2000. The regional Nature Conservation and National Parks directorate (DKMP) names its visitor sites: Valla Canyon with viewing terraces at Muratbaşı and Kerte, the Çatak Canyon glass terrace, Horma Canyon, the Ilıca waterfall, Ilgarini cave and the Kızılcasu camp. The park's own rules allow camping and picnics only in designated areas, ban fires, and require groups of 12 or more to take an area guide. There is no accommodation inside the park.
Getting there
The park's own rules list access via Pınarbaşı, Azdavay, Cide, Ulus, Amasra, Kurucaşile and Arıt. The map point stands for the whole park and is not an arrival point; the named sites (Valla Canyon, Çatak Canyon, Horma Canyon) have no official coordinates. DKMP 2026 fees for Turkish visitors: ₺65 per person or ₺195 per car. Winter access is not described by any official source.
Through the year
No official seasonal statement was found.
Safety
Fires are banned; camping only in designated areas (park rules).
Accessibility
Canyon and forest terrain; no step-free route is described.
Near Küre Mountains National Park
Fortress
Amasra Castle
A Byzantine-origin fortress on Amasra's harbour headland in Bartın, with 14th–15th century Genoese-period repairs and carved reliefs — freely walkable, with no entrance fee, as part of the old town's public space.
34 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Museum
Amasra Museum
Bartın's only museum, in a restored 1884 Naval School building on Kum Mahallesi in Amasra, with an archaeological collection spanning the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Genoese and Ottoman periods.
34 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Historic site
İncekaya Aqueduct
An 18th-century Ottoman stone aqueduct spanning Tokatlı Canyon near Safranbolu — 116m long, six arches, up to 60m above the canyon floor, reached by private or commercial vehicle.
52 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Historic site
City of Safranbolu
Turkey's best-preserved Ottoman townscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994 across three historic quarters — timber-frame houses, hans and hammams built around saffron trade and Ottoman-era wealth.
55 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ