Lycian Way
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OSM hiking route in Lycia, Türkiye (454.5 km line). Vertical figures sampled from Copernicus GLO-30. Days (38) is a placeholder from round(lengthKm/12), not the published ~29-day / 4–6-week thru-window (unverified).
Byline
- The Hiking World editorial · author
Desk byline for seed records. Named surveying editors replace this once a trail is verified.
Figures marked provisional are seed data and still need verification. Source and last-checked date sit under each cited value.
Editorial v1 · Provisional catalog
- SAC T2
- Mountain hiking. Continuous trail, some steep ground, sure-footedness helpful.
- YDS Class 1
- Class 1. Walking on an established path; low fall risk.
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Ingested from OpenStreetMap relation 51855 (ODbL). The mapped line and 2D length are derived from that geometry. Ascent, descent, and high/low points are sampled from Copernicus GLO-30 (copernicus-dem:glo-30) and remain provisional. Water, permits, and hazards were not taken from OSM tags and must be verified.
OSM 2D length is 454.5 km (relation 51855; longest connected parent-way component after 1 km snap; nested Konyaaltı K26 child omitted). Remaining members of the same relation are disconnected fragments, mainly Kemer–Geyikbayırı, omitted rather than joined with a 20+ km invented connector. Published figures disagree and are cross-checks only, not this DataPoint: Wikipedia infobox cites ~520 km and the body ~760 km (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycian_Way, checked 2026-08-23); Culture Routes Society cites 760 km from Fethiye/Ölüdeniz to Geyikbayırı (https://cultureroutesinturkey.com/the-lycian-way/, checked 2026-08-23); other leads cite 436 / 500 / 509 / 540 km depending on endpoints and variants. Sources disagree; the OSM line is the DataPoint.
typicalDays 38 is Math.round(lengthKm/12), a placeholder. Published thru-hike windows (~29 days / 4–6 weeks) are unverified leads, not this field.
OSM tags wikidata=Q1731039 (confirmed on relation 51855; not hardcoded). Endpoints on published pages are Hisarönü/Ovacık (Fethiye) and Aşağı Karaman / Geyikbayırı (Konyaaltı, Antalya) — which pair the OSM line used is noted after DEM.
Water was not mapped to named WaterSource points (no honest atFraction). Villages and springs exist along the coast but were not positioned from an official stage list this pass.
Water
No water sources recorded.
Permits & fees
Permit status is unverified. Permit fields were not sourced from OSM. Confirm locally before travel. Culture Routes Society describes a public waymarked coastal path (https://cultureroutesinturkey.com/the-lycian-way/, checked 2026-08-23) but does not explicitly state that no walking permit is required — left unverified rather than asserted. Archaeological site-entry tickets on or near the route are separate from a trail permit.
Getting there
Sourced legs to the Ovacık / Hisarönü (OSM line start) base start station — where this trail record begins. This is not a route planner: durations are approximate and marked provisional until an official transport page confirms them.
Road · Dalaman (DLM) → Fethiye
Airport buses and dolmuş to Fethiye, west-end hub. No rail to the trailheads.
en.wikipedia.org · 2026-08-20 · wikidata · official · provisionalBus · Fethiye → Ovacık / Hisarönü
Local dolmuş/bus to the western trailhead. OSM connected line starts here.
cultureroutesinturkey.com · 2026-08-20 · official · provisionalRoad · Antalya (AYT) → Konyaaltı / Aşağı Karaman
Published eastern trailhead (Geyikbayırı / Aşağı Karaman). The stored OSM connected spine currently ends near Olympos/Kumluca, not this bus head.
en.wikipedia.org · 2026-08-20 · wikidata · official · provisional
No rail into either trailhead. Eastern published end is Antalya/Geyikbayırı; OSM's longest connected component ends farther west (Olympos/Kumluca area).
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Trailheads
- Start (OSM line) car-free: unknown
- End (OSM line) car-free: unknown
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Hazards
- Summer coastal heat, limited shade, and water scarcity on exposed stages (Culture Routes Society, https://cultureroutesinturkey.com/the-lycian-way/, and Wikipedia Lycian Way, checked 2026-08-23).
- Some cliff, scramble, and route-finding sections; a few variants are harder than the main line (same sources, checked 2026-08-23).