Stage start
Haskızılören
Town
Camping only, Culture Routes in Turkey's list says: tents in the picnic gazebos at Pınargözü, with no shower.
A town or village: find accommodation yourself. TrailSplits has not checked what is open.
Haskızılören to Çandır
St Paul Trail: Perge to Yalvaç · Stage 5
Walking time measured on the mapped line (TrailSplits time model, moving time; within 22 % on four in five test legs). Outside Switzerland our walking times often run short of the times route operators publish; treat them as optimistic. Climb measured on the mapped line, on terrain heights.
Where OpenStreetMap does not map the trail
- km 13.3–13.4: Not mapped: follow the waymarks.
23.1 kmStage distance
758 mAscent, measured
7 h 28Walking time, measured
5Stage number
Down to Çandır by the Yazılı Canyon: 23.1 km by our line, with about 1,460 m of descent. For about 9 km after Haskızılören some stretches need a GPS, the society says. A stone quarry works day and night near the route: do not camp there, and you may follow the river below the road down to Yıldız. At about km 13 our line has a 103 m gap drawn straight: follow the waymarks.
Best season: Spring and autumn. Spring and autumn are best, Culture Routes in Turkey says; July and August are hot. It advises against trekking from mid-December to the end of January, when storms and snow cross Turkey. The trail climbs from near sea level at Perge to about 1,700 m on our line, and no snow dates are published for the high ground. Before you go
- Not mapped in OpenStreetMap
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Flat (<5%) Gentle (5–10%) Moderate (10–15%) Steep (15–25%)
Green: Haskızılören to Çandır. Grey: full trail. Elevation follows this mapped track.
Haskızılören to Çandır
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Where this stage starts and ends
Facts read from the guide's sources and OpenStreetMap on 13 October 2026. A page can change after we read it, so confirm with your accommodation before you rely on a date or a bed.
Stage end · overnight
Çandır
Town
The village by the Yazılı Canyon. Culture Routes in Turkey lists three stays: the Canlar hotel and trout restaurant (10 rooms, 20 beds, transfers), about 1.4 km from the stage end; seven wooden cottages run by the nature park; and the Turkish Mountaineering Federation's camp area, with water, showers and toilets.
A town or village: find accommodation yourself. TrailSplits has not checked what is open.
Canlar Hotel and trout restaurant · Hotel
Season 2026: 2026 dates not published
Walking time for this leg
No walking time is published for this leg. Measured on the mapped line, the stage takes about 7 h 28 of walking.
Make it your trip
Book each night by phone
There is no central booking and no hut system. The stays are small pensions, village houses and homestays, most of them one family with a few beds, booked by phone, often the day before. Their contacts are on Culture Routes in Turkey's accommodation list of 27 December 2025 (read 13 October 2026). The society cannot book for you. The Lale Pension in Eğirdir books stays along the trail, such as Sağrak and Dikmen Farm, and arranges transfers. Where no stay is listed, villagers may offer you a bed, the society says, but on the longer sections you must camp. Only Eğirdir and Yalvaç, on this part of the trail, have plenty of beds.
Perge to Yalvaç
The West and North branches in 15 days, a night at a village at the end of each.
Plan this journeyPerge to Sütçüler
The West Branch from the coast up to Sütçüler, by Pednelissos and the Yazılı Canyon.
Plan this journeyEğirdir to Yalvaç
The North Branch from Lake Eğirdir to Pisidian Antioch, with the car round the bay.
Plan this journeyWeather this week
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Weather by month
Typical weather on this stage: at the lowest point (304 m) and the highest point (1,468 m). Select a month to see why it is rated as it is.
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| Weather | Mixed | Mixed | Mixed | Good | Good | Mixed | Poor | Poor | Mixed | Good | Mixed | Mixed |
| High point, day / night | 4°/-4° | 5°/-3° | 9°/0° | 13°/3° | 18°/7° | 23°/12° | 27°/15° | 27°/14° | 23°/10° | 17°/6° | 11°/1° | 6°/-2° |
| Low point, day / night | 11°/2° | 12°/3° | 16°/6° | 20°/9° | 25°/13° | 30°/17° | 33°/20° | 33°/20° | 29°/16° | 24°/12° | 18°/7° | 13°/4° |
| Rain, mm | 113 | 77 | 58 | 48 | 54 | 26 | 12 | 12 | 19 | 51 | 62 | 111 |
| Snow at high point | Possible | Possible | Possible | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Possible | Possible |
| Daylight | 9 h 51 | 10 h 48 | 11 h 53 | 13 h 07 | 14 h 09 | 14 h 43 | 14 h 31 | 13 h 39 | 12 h 29 | 11 h 18 | 10 h 12 | 9 h 36 |
Source: TerraClimate 1991–2020 monthly averages. Averages for the area at each point’s elevation (4 km grid, corrected for height). Not a forecast or a report of current trail conditions. Snow at the high point is estimated with a simple snowpack model from these temperatures and precipitation, not observed; steep islands and high summits can hold more snow than it shows. Daylight is for the 15th of each month. Hut, transport and park seasons are separate: check them for your dates.
Before you go
Prepare for the St Paul Trail
Arrange your stays, food and travel first, then check conditions again near departure.
Crossing Lake Eğirdir
The boat from Dikmen Farm across the bay to Kemerdamları stopped in July 2020, when its licence ran out. The farm host now drives walkers round instead: arrange it, with your night at the farm, through the Lale Pension in Eğirdir. The society's accommodation list and Turkish page still mention a boat, so ask the pension how you will cross. Our map draws those 3.4 km as a gap, not as walking (Culture Routes in Turkey, route updates, read 13 October 2026).
Culture Routes in Turkey: route updatesRoute changes and waymarks
The society's route updates, checked 13 October 2026, date from 2017 to 2021. The path near Akpınar was moved away from marble quarries in November 2020, and the route after Yukarı Gökdere left the national park. A stone quarry works near the route between Haskızılören and Çandır: do not camp there. Between Adada and Sipahiler, take the route on the west side of the river. Use a GPS or the society's app around the Kurşunlu waterfall, Pednelissos and Yukarı Gökdere, and after Haskızılören. Where the waymarks differ from our line, follow the waymarks.
Culture Routes in Turkey: route updates (Turkish)Forest fires and forest entry
In summer, the provinces' forest-fire commissions can close forests to visitors. On 28 August 2026 the Isparta Governorate told the police to tighten checks where forest entry is restricted; no ban for the trail's districts was in force on the Isparta or Antalya governorate pages, checked 13 October 2026. Check them before you set off from June to October. Light fires only in existing fireplaces, the society says.
Isparta Governorate: announcementsWater, safety and the emergency number
Every village has a clean water source, and you usually pass at least one a day, but a well may need a bucket and string. Treat well water from June to the end of October, when the flocks move. Carry a phone and a GPS or the society's app, and do not walk in mist (Culture Routes in Turkey, FAQ, read 13 October 2026). For an emergency call 112, Turkey's single emergency number, which also reaches the gendarmerie.
Culture Routes in Turkey: FAQ for trekkersThe guidebook and the app
The official sections, with a description and time for each, are only in the society's paid guidebook (second edition, 2012, updated in 2013) and its Trekking in Turkey and Via Eurasia apps. The society posted its new routes and alternatives near Eğirdir and Barla in November 2020 (checked 13 October 2026). This guide's days are ours, cut at villages with stays.
Culture Routes in Turkey: new and changed routesGetting there
Connect your journey
Travel around Haskızılören to Çandır.
Google Maps journey searches, not confirmed services. A mountain endpoint may need a booked transfer or an additional walk.
To the start at Perge
From Antalya airport, buses 600 and 800 and Havaş run to the city about every half hour, and the tram stops opposite the terminals. From Antalya, city bus AC03 runs to Aksu every 15 minutes by day, or take the tram; the site is signed from the traffic lights in Aksu. These times are from the society's transport page, last updated in July 2021: check them locally.
Culture Routes in Turkey: transportOn the way
Buses link Isparta and Eğirdir with Sipahiler and Sütçüler several times a day, some by Yukarı Gökdere; one bus a day runs between Antalya and Sütçüler, some by Çandır. A village minibus leaves Isparta at 13:30 for Çandır and comes back at 06:00; three a day run between Isparta and Barla. The society's transport page, from July 2021, has the timetables.
Culture Routes in Turkey: transportHome from Yalvaç
About 20 buses a day run from Yalvaç to Eğirdir and Isparta, from 06:00 to 20:00, and a direct bus leaves Yalvaç for Antalya at 06:30 (it comes up from Antalya at 16:00). Yalvaç's bus station is south-west of the centre. Times from the society's transport page of July 2021.
Culture Routes in Turkey: transportTake your trip with you
Offline maps
Prepare each day while you still have a connection: the signal is poor in some villages, Sağrak among them, and the society advises a GPS or its app on poorly marked stretches.
Keep your route and maps on your phone for places without a signal. For multi-day trips, prepare them in the installed TrailSplits app.
- Open this trail in the app. Install TrailSplits, then open this trail there. On iPhone, downloads in a browser may not be available in the installed app.
- Choose your route or stages. Choose Prepare offline above. Wait for the route and maps to finish downloading.
- Try it before leaving coverage. Switch offline, close and reopen the app, then use My Hikes to start navigation. Repeat for every part you will need.
Saving a bookmark is not a map download. Storage can be cleared by your device; keep a backup map for remote trips.
Route & sources
Route map & sources
Culture Routes in Turkey (Kültür Rotaları Derneği), the society that made and keeps the trail, gives the St Paul Trail as about 500 km and 27 days with all its branches and alternatives. It publishes no stage table and no stage times online: the sections and their times are only in its paid guidebook and its apps. This page covers the West and North branches, from Perge to Yalvaç. The East Branch, from the Roman bridge above Beşkonak by Selge, Çaltepe, Çukurca, Kesme and Kasımlar to Adada, is not on our map. The line here is the route on OpenStreetMap (relation 569620, from the planet of 11 October 2026): 272.4 km, cut into 15 days. Each day ends at a village on the society's own accommodation list of 27 December 2025, except Aksaz and Kozan, which have no listed stay. The distances, climb and times are ours, measured on terrain heights, not official. Two short stretches are not mapped as one line: 103 m before Çandır, drawn straight (follow the waymarks), and 104 m at Adada, joined by our routing. Across Lake Eğirdir, from Dikmen Farm to Kemerdamları, there is no walking route: the farm host drives walkers round, and those 3.4 km are drawn as a gap, not counted as walking.
Official guidance and mapped-source comparison checked 13 October 2026. Map data is a route reference, not confirmation of today's path, weather or accommodation availability.
Culture Routes in Turkey: St Paul TrailMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors · Source relation