Guide
The Kurşunlu waterfall lies within the central district of Antalya, twenty-two kilometres from the city. Water falls from a height of eighteen metres, and seven small pools are joined to one another by lesser falls. The whole sits within a canyon two kilometres long.
The area was made into a park and opened to visitors in 1986. The waterfall and the picnic ground cover thirty-three hectares, with viewing terraces, a children's playground, a restaurant, parking, walking paths, drinking water and lavatories. In 1991 a wider stretch of 586 hectares was set aside as a nature park, for its sound forest cover and rich plant communities set among striking water and rock forms, with the waterfall as the feature that gives the place its character.
The park is reached by a seven-kilometre road turning north off the Antalya–Aksu highway at the Soğucaksu bridge. Municipal buses and minibuses run there; the source names minibus routes 230 and 231 and bus route 79, leaving Antalya city centre on the hour.
Turkish red pine dominates the woodland, with oriental plane, bay laurel, carob, wild olive, mastic, willow and fig standing singly or in small groups among it. Myrtle, hawthorn, oleander, bramble, wild rose, spurge, tamarisk, spruce, kermes oak, thyme, wild mint, ferns and climbers make up the undergrowth. Among the water plants are nutsedge, water mint and reeds at the surface, filamentous green algae below, and water lilies floating on it.
Wild boar, fox, hare, squirrel and bats live here, along with hoopoe, woodpecker and turtle dove; there are carp in the water and terrapins, snakes and lizards as well.
April to December is the best season for a visit. Day picnics and walking are what visitors come for, and there are facilities within the park for food and drink.
- Designated
- 21.05.1991
Entry fee
- Mediterranean group 1 · category 1 · Per person
- 95 ₺
