Kılıçlar Orman Parkı

About Kılıçlar Orman Parkı

Kılıçlar Orman Parkı, also called Kılıçlar Mesire Alanı, is a pine-shaded picnic and nature area in Kılıçlar, a rural neighbourhood of Kahramankazan district north-west of Ankara. The Kahramankazan District Governorship describes it as a popular picnic spot surrounded by pine trees, about 30 to 40 km from the city centre, which draws people looking for calm and fresh air, especially at weekends. The mature pines give plenty of shade, and the governorship notes walking routes through the woodland. Facilities listed on its page include a children's playground, a small prayer room (mescit), drinking fountains and toilets. Alongside ordinary day picnics, the area hosts occasional tent camping and organised events such as meteor-watching nights. To get there by car, the governorship suggests following Ankara Bulvarı towards Kahramankazan and then the Ahievran Caddesi and Bilgehan Caddesi route to the site in Kılıçlar Mahallesi. OpenStreetMap marks the picnic site at the end of a service road just south of Kılıçlar village. Kılıçlar is one of the forest parks run by the Ankara Regional Directorate of Forestry that the Ankara Governor's Office keeps open for controlled day picnics during the summer forest-fire season, when general entry to the province's forests is banned. That makes it one of the few legal places for a woodland picnic in Kahramankazan in high summer. Durasan Şah Tabiat Parkı is also in the district if you want to make a day of it.