Our compilation for Düzce, not an official route. One entry on it is not a place at all, and the page says so itself: Yığılca to Yedigöller is a road, surfaced and signed by the provincial governorship, that can be driven or walked through the Küçük Melen valley. It is on the list because it is sourced and because the route runs through it, but a reader expecting a single site should know what it is.
The coast is one group. Akçakoca holds the old town houses — around a hundred and sixty of them protected as a conservation area, in three distinct forms depending on when and by whom they were built — and, inland from the town, the Aktaş waterfall at the end of a marked walking path. Konuralp, just above Düzce, holds Prusias ad Hypium, founded as Kieros and renamed by a Bithynian king.
The rest is water in the hills south of the city and can be taken as one outing: the Samandere falls, a registered natural monument with cascades and rock hollows around them; the Aydınpınar falls, which the provincial directorate rates among the finest of their kind in the country; Korugöl, renamed from Kurugöl because the old form caused misunderstandings; and Torkul, a small pond formed by a volcanic collapse inside the pasture of the same name. Kardüz, high above Gölyaka, is the outlier — one of the highest places in the province, put forward as a candidate for winter tourism rather than as a ski centre. What each place is, and who says so, is on its own page.
