Kartaltepe Tabiat Parkı

About Kartaltepe Tabiat Parkı

Kartaltepe Nature Park is a 93-hectare patch of state forest at the Devletdoruğu locality in Kızılcahamam district, registered as a nature park in 2011. It is looked after by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's Nature Conservation and National Parks directorate, which puts it about 74 km from Ankara and 7.5 km from Kızılcahamam town. It should not be confused with the Kartaltepe forest park in Keçiören or the Kartaltepe section of the Sakarya battlefield. This is an undeveloped site. According to the directorate there are no facilities inside the park; its features are the forest itself and two ponds. The travel site Tatil Ana describes the ponds as small and used for amateur line fishing, and gives the approach as a turn-off towards Kırköy on the road from Kazan, a few kilometres before Kızılcahamam. In summer 2026 the Ankara governor's office listed Kartaltepe Nature Park among the registered protected areas that stayed open while general entry to forests was banned for fire season, with barbecues allowed only at fixed grills provided by the management. Check current fire-season rules before planning a picnic. Kartaltepe is a quiet stop on the way to Kızılcahamam and combines well with Soğuksu National Park and Şahinler Nature Park further north, or with the Kurtboğazı reservoir on the same road.