Tbilisi National Park, National park in Mtskheta Municipality, Georgia
Tbilisi National Park is a protected area in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region covering the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Range. It features forests, rivers, and mountainous terrain at elevations ranging from 600 to 1700 meters.
The park was established in 1973 through the conversion of earlier protected lands and became Georgia's first national park. Its creation incorporated the existing Saguramo Nature Reserve into the new protected area.
The park's slopes hold medieval monuments: Zedazeni Monastery in the forest above Saguramo, Martkopi's Ghvtismshobeli Monastery, and the Norio fortress. Mtskheta, with Svetitskhoveli Cathedral and the Samtavro convent, lies just outside the western boundary. The park is named after Tbilisi, which it directly surrounds.
The park offers three designated cycling routes of varying difficulty levels, including the 10-kilometer Big Viewpoint Trail and the 38-kilometer Mamkoda Medium Loop. Visitors should prepare according to their chosen route and fitness level.
The park's highest point stands at 1,385 metres, and the paved road linking Tbilisi with Tianeti crosses its central part over the Saguramo Range. A stretch of the Tbilisi bypass highway runs along the southwestern border, so drivers pass directly through protected forest.
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