The 11 Best Running Routes in İzmir
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The whole of İzmir runs – all the parks and streets are used. İzmir offers you an incredible variety of routes and paths.
Along the water, through the city, across fields and through forests. But whether you want to train for the next sporting competition or just want to run for fun, we have selected the most beautiful jogging routes in İzmir. Try them out – variety is guaranteed.
The Kordon: The seaside promenade that stretches along the coast of İzmir offers beautiful views of the Aegean Sea and is a popular spot for runners.
The Alsancak Neighborhood: The picturesque streets and parks of this historic neighborhood make for a great running route.
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The Konak Square: The square is surrounded by historic buildings and offers a great view of the city.
The Bornova Creek: The creek is surrounded by greenery and offers a peaceful and scenic run.
The İzmir Botanical Garden: The garden’s paths and trails offer a peaceful and natural setting for a run.
Çiğli Sasalı Forest:
The Inciraltı Forest: The forest offers a variety of trails and paths for a more challenging and natural run.
The Gaziemir Lake: The lake’s scenic path offers a peaceful and easy run.
The Balçova Cable Car: The route up to the top of the cable car offers a scenic and challenging run with a great view of the city.
The Konak-Alsancak-Karşıyaka Tram Line: The tram line’s route offers a variety of sights and neighborhoods to run through.
The İnciraltı Beach: The beach’s wide and flat paths offer a great running route with a view of the sea.
Kültürpark
Kültürpark has an 1850-meter tartan track, a swimming pool, an indoor gymnasium, a tennis court, a wedding hall, and an amusement park on 13,500 m2 of 421,000 m2, featuring more than 200 valuable trees and plant species, most of which were imported from outside. Wear sportswear to use the tartan running track around the Kültürpark Area.
Kültürpark hosts cultural events like book fairs in the rooms near the Basmane gate year-round. Kültürpark’s social activity venues include Atatürk Open Air Theater, İsmet İnönü Art Center, İzmir Art, Fuar Marriage House, Celal Atik Sports Hall, Parachute Tower, Youth Theater, Painting-Sculpture Museum, History and Art Museum.
Kordonboyu
It features green areas, resting and lounging areas, walking grounds with tartan tracks, a bicycle track, and cafeterias between Konak and Alsancak bay.
Balçova Cablecar
The picnic spot is accessible by a paid cable car from Balçova’s last station from 12.00 to 20.00, except Mondays.
Cafeterias, restaurants, and buffets on the hill have resting and sightseeing places.
The Citizen Communication Center should monitor cable car maintenance.
Inciraltı Recreation Area
Izmir inhabitants can enjoy the 2 million-square-meter İnciraltı Urban Forest at any time for sports, hiking, sightseeing, and picnics in a sea-and-greenery setting.
İnciraltı Urban Forest features natural stone, rock, and wood resting spaces, bridges, walking, and biking pathways. The bicycle and walking trail from Yenikale to Inciraltı Urban Forest from the shore protects the forest’s wetland, where birds nest and lay their eggs.
Bayraklı-Bornova Disctrict
Recreation Area Bornova Aşık Veysel
The Bornova Kızılay Neighborhood’s Aşık Veysel Recreation Area has an Ice Sports Hall, amphitheater, strolling and recreation grounds on 245 decares of land near the Bornova Market Place.
Homeros Valley
Ponds, dykes, picnic sites, and wooden benches are scattered around the 7-kilometer valley. Homeros Valley is a picnic place with natural stone dykes that control water flow in the stream bed during rainy weather.
Delta Meles
The Meles Delta, a recreation area with tourist pathways, a swimming pool for aquatic fowl, and a relaxation area on 139 thousand square meters of green space in the city, is a place for cultural, artistic, recreational, and sporting activities.
Life Park Ord. Prof. Dr. Ekrem Akurgal
Cengizhan Neighborhood’s 90 acres include three children’s playgrounds, fitness and recreation areas, a skateboard and skating rink, 2 basketball, artificial turf football, and tennis courts, a cafeteria, viewing terraces, a picnic area, a 1239-meter walking path, a 2103-meter jogging path, and an outdoor parking lot for 146 vehicles. A 2,000-square-meter outdoor exhibition area and teaching center are incorporated in the park.
District Buca
Pond Buca
Buca Gölet is a recreational area with 167 thousand m2 of fish restaurant, meat-fast food, amphitheater, picnic area, pond bar, hobby gardens, cafeterias, observation terraces, children’s play sets, market, animal paddock, parking lot, picnic space, hobby garden, and observation terraces.
The green area of over 98 thousand square meters include a picnic area, children’s playground, basketball court, squash court, exercise area, running track, tennis courts, and parking.
Recreation Area Mevlana
On the 20-acre space where the Mevlana Statue in Tıngırtepe, Buca’s highest point, is located, there is a cafeteria, walking trails, and seating groups.
Cafeterias, restaurants, a performance center, resting and dining places, walking pathways, green areas with flowers and palm trees, and 100 thousand m2 seven lakes are included.
District Çiğli
Sasalı Picnic Area and İzmir Wildlife Park
In Çiğli Sasalı, İzmir Wildlife Park has over 2600 animals of 138 species and 250 plant kinds.
There are promenades, observation towers, a pond, a children’s zoo with playgrounds and a manege, stables and poultry houses, a tropical center with birds and reptiles, and cafeterias.
With its pleasant shade, pine forest, life track, and bicycle path, Sasalı Picnic Area, near Izmir Wildlife Park, suits the city’s picnic needs.
Bird Sanctuary
Within the borders of Çamaltı Tuzlası, the Bird Sanctuary and the Gediz Delta, which cover 40,000 hectares, are home to up to 100,000 waterfowl in the winter. As of today, 289 species of birds have been seen there. There are 20 kilometers of trails for biking and walking at the Izmir Bird Sanctuary. Bicycles and vehicles that run on batteries can be used to get around the whole Bird Sanctuary.
Bostanlı Recreation Area
The arrangement for the coastal zone covers a total area of 160,000 m2. It has picnic areas, an amphitheater, children’s playgrounds, basketball, tennis, and skating courts, jogging and cycling paths, and squares.
Within the Mavişehir-Alaybey, Bayraklı-Meles Delta, Kordon-İnciraltı, Sahilevleri, and Güzelbahçe coastal section arrangement, there are jogging paths, walking paths, bicycle paths, fitness areas, children’s playgrounds, basketball, tennis, and skating courts, ski-ski tracks, and picnic areas at certain points along the entire coastline of the city. On the 6.5 km route between Üçkuyular Ferry Pier and Konak, for example, you can walk or ride a bike along the coast, and on the land side, there is a promenade and a walking area with cafes.
Many of the parks in the city’s districts and neighborhoods, like the recently finished Mavişehir Halk Park, Bornova Adventure Park and Martyr First Lieutenant Ömer Bozkurt Park, Bayraklı Martyr Police Fethi Sekin Park, and Yüzbaşı İbrahim Hakkı Caddesi Park, have tartan tracks, walking tracks, and fitness areas that can be used for sports and recreation.