Guide
Sıklık Nature Park is a recreation ground and nature park five kilometres from the centre of Çorum, thirty kilometres from Laçin and thirty-seven from Mecitözü. It covers 318 hectares.
Thirty hectares of the present park were first declared a recreation ground in 1992. In 2009 the area was enlarged to sixty-four hectares and taken under protection as a nature park by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, and in 2014 it was widened again to 318 hectares. By 2018 it was drawing 180,000 visitors a year.
Within the park are two enclosures where wild animals are shown to visitors in something close to their natural surroundings, and a botanical area planted with 5,500 saplings of 165 different kinds; these are what the park is best known for. The first enclosure, set up on fifty dönüm in 2012 as the first of its kind in Türkiye, grew into a breeding centre, and as the number of animals rose a new enclosure of four hundred dönüm was made. As of 2019 the two together held fourteen red deer, fourteen wild goats, three roe deer, six mountain gazelles and three hares.
Among the animals living in the park itself are hare, squirrel, fox, wild boar, wolf, badger and mole, with long-legged buzzard, sparrowhawk, crow, nightingale and chukar partridge among the birds.
Beside the animal enclosure stands an observation tower ten metres high. For visitors there are viewing terraces, a visitor centre, a wooden tea garden, the botanical garden, a country restaurant, a fountain, a buffet, lavatories, a rain shelter and sports facilities.
- Designated
- 8.07.2009
Entry fee
- Black Sea group 2 · category 1 · Per person
- 65 ₺
