Our compilation for Kastamonu, not an official route, and the province runs a long way from the Black Sea coast down to the Ilgaz range.
One thread ties much of it together. İnebolu was the only door left open to the sea during the War of Independence, and the supply line inland from it is protected today as the İstiklal Yolu historical national park — not one continuous tract but a series of separate sections across two provinces. The city museum at İnebolu, in an 1882 medrese that burned in 1996 and stood derelict for years before restoration, sits at the coastal end of it.
The north is canyon country. Küre Dağları National Park is built around canyons and the meadows above them, with viewing terraces cut into their rims, and the Ersizlerdere canyon on the Küre–İnebolu road is one of the more accessible of the recently declared parks. Yeşilyuva, a small roadside park near Abana, is on the same coastal run.
Inland, Taşköprü holds a city history museum in a barracks built in the 1890s for a Redif battalion — the part-time force raised after the janissary corps was abolished. Şehit Şerifebacı is on the edge of the city itself. Ilgaz Dağı, in the south, has no minibus or shared-taxi line to it from either side, which the source states plainly, and Dipsizgöl, out at Tosya, is unusual for how it fills: no stream runs into the lake at all. What each place is, and who says so, is on its own page.
