G-46 Filyos Ecopark is a project implemented by the Zonguldak 100th Year Foundation under the name of '100th Year Atatürk Service Village' in memory of the 100th birthday of the great leader Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Established under the chairmanship of the then Governor of Zonguldak, Galip Demirel, in order to develop the culture, economy and especially the mining sector of Zonguldak Province, and to promote local handicraft products in the country and abroad, the project initiated by the Foundation in 1982 was followed by Zonguldak Governors and Governors in the following years. It was completed and put into service in 2000 by the Provincial Special Administration Directorate with the support of the Provincial General Assembly Members. The Project Area is located on the Zonguldak-Ankara highway and at the Zonguldak-Devrek-Çaycuma road junction, in the Bakacakkadı locality of Gökçebey District.

The facility is 40-50 minutes away from geosites and places worth seeing such as Gökgöl and Çayır Caves, Çaycuma Kadıoğlu Mosaics. Filyos Ecopark, in other words, 100. Yıl Atatürk Service Village, is located on a 194 decare land and serves visitors with a hotel with a capacity of 33 rooms and 5 bungalow type houses. There are meeting-conference hall, restaurant-bar sections for 230 people, in the layout of the 200-seat cinema, which also belongs to the hotel. There is also an outdoor pool for 350 people and an overwater casino for 150 people. There are tennis courts, football field, tea lodge, greenhouse-picnic areas, horse farm, excursion parks, amphitheater and gift shops in the 194 decares of land. Ekopark is a facility that provides service throughout the year for sports and recreational activities with its hotels and bungalows, accommodation, conference hall and various meetings, tennis court, football field, swimming pool and camping area, but the density increases in summer months. In addition to these uses, the existing campus also has reserve parcels with naturally spreading plane tree stands and its sub-cover.

The most important application of the 100th Year Atatürk Service Village Project was to create an Arboretum. Arboretums are areas that can be used effectively to create environmental and nature awareness and to offer recreational opportunities to the public. These areas play an important role in the lives of the people of the region with the social and aesthetic spaces they create, as well as being the environments where plant species, genetic material are preserved and necessary efforts are made for their continuity, and scientific researches are carried out. They provide people who are curious about the aesthetic aspects and natural beauties of many plants the opportunity to see and examine these features closely. Thus, in the first stage in April 2006, a total of 179 plants were planted, including 26 coniferous trees, 66 leafy trees and 87 shrubs. Later, application projects were developed and more than 2,400 tree and plant varieties belonging to 125 species were planted until today. The implementation phases of the project, which aims to promote local plants and thus increase the awareness of both the local people and tourists to nature, are still ongoing.

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NATURAL HERITAGE
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Natural
Landscape
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Educational
Touristic
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Regional