Mihrabat Nature Park


Mihrabat Nature Park is a nature park located on the Asian part in Beykoz district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
Situated southeast of Kanlıca neighborhood of Beykoz next to the Bosphorus, it covers an area of. It was established in 2011.
The nature park offers outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, cycling and picnicing for visitors on daily basis. There are open-air basketball courts and football field. Access to the nature park is at Mihrabat Cad. 50. Admission is charged for visitors and vehicles. An open-air restaurant and a snack bar serve the visitors. Use of the nature park for events like weddings, music concerts and meetings is also permitted.

Ecosystem

;Flora
The nature park is the habitat for diverse species of plant with deciduous trees in the majority. Present deciduous vegetation include common hornbeam, sweet chestnut, oriental plane, silver linden, kermes oak, Irish oak, Norway maple, Balkan maple, crepe flower, Mediterranean hackberry, cigartree, Judas tree Cercis siliquastrum, common ash, silver wattle, cherry plum and southern magnolia.
Present conifer trees are stone pine, Himalayan cedar and Syrian juniper.
Foliage plants are Mediterranean cypress, giant cedar, oriental cedar, and Greek juniper.
Shrubs in the park are goat willow, bay laurel, Chinese photinia, laurestine, strawberry tree, English dogwood, European holly
, salt cedar, weaver's broom, scarlet firethorn, blackberry, Australian laurel, butcher's broom, tree heath, Japanese privet, green olive tree, dog-rose and common medlar.
European ivy is found in the nature as creeper plant. On the hillsides, flowering plants such as stonecrops and
, oleander, rosemary and nandina ).
;Fauna
Observed bird species in the nature park are sparrow, dunnock, common raven, woodpecker and European goldfinch. Other animals found in the park are hare, squirrel, tortoise, lixard.