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Rest with a tent - Red Stone rock in Gurzuf

There are more than enough places to relax with a tent in Crimea: forests, mountains, wild beaches. But among them there are special places that are impressive at first glance. On their list is Red Rock Rock. It is ideal for an active pastime in the lap of nature.

Description, location

Previously, the rock, located at the northern tip of the village of Krasnokamenka, was called Kizil-Tash. Then the name was simply translated into our language, it turned out “Red Stone”. The nearest settlement was named after the hill. At one time, archaeological excavations were carried out there, as a result of which an ancient outpost was discovered.

Due to its unique features and location, the mountain was once a serious strategic object. It monitored the trade routes that ran at the foot. On the map, the Red Stone rock borders the village. It is clearly visible from almost anywhere in the Gurzuf Valley.


In fact, it is a huge limestone outlier of a mountain range, slowly but surely moving towards the sea. The height of the cliffs of the rock formation in some places reaches 70 meters. The total length of the platform at the top is more than 100 meters, the width is about 50 meters. The site is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, which is especially pleasing for climbers. You can meet them here in whole groups. Rock climbing is the most popular and exciting entertainment.

It is possible to get to the top only from the north side, along a narrow winding path. You can't get through it with a car. If you look at the rock from afar, its steep slopes will appear bright yellow, sometimes even red. This is due to the rock that makes up the hill - marble-like limestone of pinkish-yellow color. It is thanks to the rock that the rock received its name.

Not far from the Red Stone rock, the very tasty “White Muscat” grape grows, from which delicious Crimean wine is made. In education itself, you can often meet people who prefer a wild holiday away from noisy civilization. Sometimes there are a lot of tents. Mostly these are climbers who come to the heights for new experiences and achievements.

Even if you're not into rock climbing, you'll have a great time here. The air is intoxicating, fresh, and breathtaking. The views from the top of the lake, the city, the sea and the majestic are capable of stunning everyone. The only drawback is carrying your belongings far from the car. But such an unforgettable experience is worth a little effort. If you stop by the lake, the car will be next to you and fresh water too.


How to get to the Red Stone in Gurzuf

Naturally, if you are going on a wild holiday in a tent, then you should go by personal transport. The exact coordinates on the map are indicated below. Travelers who just want to spend a few hours in one of the most beautiful places in Crimea get by bus No. 2, going from the center of Gurzuf to Krasnokamenka. You need to get off at the last stop in the village. The 60th trolleybus comes here from Yalta. From the stop you will walk through the village towards the cliff. She is noticeable, you can't go wrong.

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Red Stone rock in Gurzuf on the map (tent sites near the lake), GPS coordinates: 44°34’11.1″N 34°17’15.6″E (44.569748, 34.287659)

A holiday on the Red Stone in Gurzuf will bring a lot of new, bright, memorable emotions. From here Crimea opens up from a completely different side. Unforgettable landscapes, majestic elevations and complete freedom are just some of the advantages. Have a pleasant, unique holiday everyone!

The Red Stone rock is located near the village of Krasnokamenka. The easiest way to get to it is by Partenit bus: the distance from Partenit to Krasnokamenka is 10 km.

From the Krasnokamenka bus stop, you need to climb the stairs to the old Yalta highway - and then turn left onto the road leading to the mountains and to the limestone quarry. After about 20 minutes, the Red Stone will open.

A massive brown rock with bluish streaks rises above the hilly slope of the southern coast, inclined towards the sea. It is in sharp color contrast with the green forest approaching from above and the brown soil visible in the gardens and vineyards.

The rock is compressed vertically and looks like a huge stone drum laid flat on the ground. The height of the Red Stone is 48 m, the diameter is 120-130 m. Its strictly vertical walls with reliable holds have long been chosen by climbers for training.

For other people, the rock is inaccessible and only from the side of the Main Ridge can you climb it along a short stone ridge 15-20 m high.

The base of the battle tower has been partially preserved on the ridge. The fortification was completely built. A foundation of limestone blocks is laid on the rocky base, and walls are built on it from local stone and lime mortar. The width of the walls is about a meter, length 5.5 m. The western wall has been preserved to a height of 2.5 m.

It is believed that on the ridge there was a small fortress of the 12th-13th centuries, connected by a smoke alarm with other fortified points on the South Bank. It closed the approaches to the Main Ridge pass into the river valley on the opposite slope of the Crimean Mountains.

From Red Stone to the Main Ridge it is directly about three kilometers, and from here you can clearly see the mountainous terrain. Behind the Red Stone, two links of the Main Ridge are connected - Nikitskaya and Babugan-yayla, limiting the vast Gurzuf mountain amphitheater from the north.

If you face the mountains, on the left you will see the rocky spur of the Nikitskaya Yayla, transverse to the sea, with the gloomy gorge of the Avunda River lying underneath it, flowing through Gurzuf. To the north, the spur turns into a higher and more massive Nikitskaya yayla, above the cliff of which in good weather the Gazebo of Winds, erected at the edge of the highland, hovers in the clear air.

The Nikitskaya yayla goes down to the right and turns into a deep depression - a pass into the Kachi valley.

On the right side of the Gurzuf saddle, the highest of the Crimean highlands, Babugan-yayla, begins with the main peak of the Crimea - the mountain (1545 m above sea level) and several more “one and a half thousand meters”.

And although they rise quite significantly above the hilly yayla, they are located in the depths of the highlands, and they are not visible either from the Red Stone or from any other part of the South Coast, except Partenit.

Even further to the right you can see an incision into the edge of Babugan, cut through by the Putamish River, which flows through Krasnokamenka and.

The far right place in the panorama of the Gurzuf amphitheater is occupied by the dome-shaped Karaul-Kaya mountain, completely covered with forest.

It is not part of the main line of mountains, but is located slightly to the south and the distant rocky slope faces the Partenitka valley. The ridge extending from Karaul-Kai stretches towards and limits the Gurzuf amphitheater from the east.

The red stone is composed of dark gray dense, slightly rough limestone at the fracture, formed in the Late Jurassic era of geological history. In some places, small calcite crystals are detected in the rock by light reflections. The limestone is broken by numerous cracks, inclined into the slope at an angle of 35 - 40°. There are especially many cracks in the ridge, with which it seems to be excised.

The flat, slightly convex top of the Red Stone is slightly inclined towards the sea. The surface is rocky, and only in places there is soil in the depressions and cracks of the rock. However, the vegetation at the top of Red Rock is quite varied.

Pistachio blunt-leaved and tree-like juniper, groves of rose hips, Crimean jasmine with black round berries, and cotoneaster grow here. And the birds do not ignore the Red Stone. White-bellied swifts swiftly swoop over the rock, falcons hover for a long time, and wild pigeons fly by.

It is worth paying attention to the isolated position of the Red Stone on the southern coastal slope and the fact that it lies on alien compacted clays and sandstones of the Tauride series.

With normal occurrence, Middle Jurassic platy greenish sandstones lie under the Upper Jurassic limestones, and only under them do clays and sandstones of the Tauride series appear.

The red stone, like other limestone rocks on the slope of the South Bank, arose during the long-term destruction of the edge of the Main Ridge. During landslides, rocks and blocks of limestone were torn off and collapsed from the cliffs of the uplands. This was also facilitated by the tremors of destructive earthquakes, which were repeated many times in the last period of geological history and in historical times.

The collapsed rocks and blocks were initially located at the foot of the Main Ridge, and then gradually slid down the clay-sandstone slope of the South Coast.

The destruction and retreat of the cliffs of the Crimean yayls has been going on for several million years. But how quickly does it happen? Where did the Greek colonists who sailed to the shores of Taurica 2500 years ago see the Yaylin wall? Where was she 180 years ago, during Pushkin’s visit to Crimea?

The yayla cliff recedes at low speed. It can be approximately determined by the volume of rocks and boulders that have accumulated at the foot of the yayls over a certain period of time. Calculations have shown that the rate of retreat of the cliff is on average about 2 mm per year.

Thus, 2500 years ago, during the time of the Greek colonists, the cliff was 5 meters further south, and during Pushkin’s stay in Crimea it was only 36 centimeters further south. In historical times, the cliff did not change its position in any significant way.

Vineyards, peach orchards, tobacco and lavender fields came close to the Red Stone. The world-famous “Red Stone” white muscat, awarded with gold medals at international wine exhibitions, was prepared from local grapes.

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13 km east of Yalta, in the middle of the picturesque Gurzuf Valley, rises the small rock Kizil-Tash, better known as Red Stone - a geological natural monument, a historical site covered in legends, a popular place among rock climbers. The 430-meter rock is located on the northern outskirts of the village of Krasnokamenka; this small village got its name from the Crimean Tatar toponym Kizil-Tash, which means “red stone”. Local historians clarify that previously a giant block of marble-like limestone, painted in brown-red tones, was called Gelin-Kaya (Bride Rock, Walking Rock), and Kizil-Tash was the name of the neighboring outcast stone, located 500 meters to the west. The stone stood on the site of an abandoned quarry, which subsequently swallowed it up, and the name Kizil-Tash migrated to the neighboring Gelin-Kaya rock.

Red Stone in Crimea in 1969 was recognized as a natural monument of local significance. It is located on the southern outskirts of the Yalta Nature Reserve, 4 km from the Main mountain range - Babugan, Gurzufskaya and Yalta yayla. In ancient times, frequent earthquakes destroyed the edges of the Crimean Mountains; for thousands of years, huge blocks of limestone slid down the clay-sandy slopes of the Southern Coast, slowly “walking” towards the sea. Maybe that's why the Red Stone was called the Walking Rock? The Adalar twin rocks, located near Gurzuf, turned out to be much more “agile” than Kizil-Tash, and now their white slopes are washed by the waves of the Black Sea. Such “traveling” rocks overcome 2 mm per year (!), in the scientific community they are called “rejectors”. Having broken off from the Main Ridge in ancient times, they exactly repeat the geological structure of the mother mountains. Red Stone is no exception; it is composed of marbled reddish limestones that originated in the Upper Jurassic period. The Komsomolskaya station of the Moscow Metro is lined with similar limestones.

The length of the Stone is 120 meters, width - 50 m, height of cliffs - 65-70 m. A huge crack divides the rock into two smaller stones - 70 and 50 meters in length. The giant limestone block has steep, inaccessible slopes, as if specially created for those who like to conquer heights. Red Stone is one of the few places in Crimea that is very popular among rock climbers. There are about 110 climbing routes of varying difficulty levels on its slopes. Thousands of tourists from the CIS and Europe come to this place every year to try rock climbing in Crimea in the warm climate of the peninsula, among the beauties of the South Coast. Climbing routes 5a-8c are laid on the southern, western and eastern slopes of Kamen. A few years ago, daredevils tried seven new routes on the little-popular upper sector of the rock. 60 meters from the small fragment of Red Stone there is another small pointed rock called Utyug with easier routes (from 5a to 7b), an ideal place to learn rock climbing for beginners.

At the very foot of the Iron, a small lake overgrown with reeds reflects the heavenly blue. In 2006, a scene for the film “Savages” was filmed on its shores, in which the main characters enjoyed swimming in the lake. Perhaps the mulled lake is ideal as a movie backdrop, but not so much for swimming. There are small ponds next to it, more suitable for relaxing and swimming. And they are located in close proximity to the unique vineyard of the Massandra winery. The elite wine “Red Stone White Muscat” is obtained from the berries collected on this plantation. Thanks to the unique climatic conditions of the place where the grapes grow, this dessert wine has excellent taste, has received dozens of international awards and has been twice recognized as the best wine in the world. The white liqueur wine of Red Stone was extremely loved by the English Queen Elizabeth II. In the 60s, the Massandra plant annually sent her a two-hundred-liter barrel of this expensive vintage wine.

At first glance, Kizil-Tash does not look red, rather yellowish-gray, with dark streaks on the stone. The rough, grayish-yellow limestone has red-brown inclusions of calcite and appears almost red in the rays of the setting sun. The rock is cut by numerous cracks, especially many fractures are observed on the Kizil-Tash ridge. At the top, the cracks are covered with earth and are densely overgrown with grass in the summer. In some of the breaks you can see small trees; on the top of the Red Stone there are rose hips, blunt pistachio, and Crimean juniper. In the eastern part of the Stone, directed towards Ayu-Dag, there is a stainless Orthodox cross. In the Middle Ages, a small church was located in its place, and next to it were the fortress walls of a fortification built on the top of a cliff back in the 13-14th centuries.

The fortress on Gelin-Kaya was small in size and served as a lookout point. Now what remains of it are several protective walls a meter wide and the ruins of stone buildings. The western wall of the fortress has not yet collapsed and is 2.5 meters high. The total length of the fence previously reached 5.5 meters. The warriors located in the fortress transmitted messages to neighboring fortified points of the Principality of Theodoro using smoke signals. In addition to the walls, on the top of the rock you can see the remains of a battle tower. In the Middle Ages, a small village arose near the Stone, whose inhabitants supplied the warriors at the top of Gelin-Kai with water and food. Over time, the fortress collapsed, but people did not begin to leave these fertile places. Thus, on the banks of the Cherkes-Uzen River, flowing east of Kamen, the village of Kizil-Tash was formed (on some maps - “Kyzyl-Tash”).

Once upon a time, the fortress on Red Stone really seemed impregnable: steep cliffs on the sides, devoid of convenient approaches, the small size of the rock, which did not allow finding a loophole to the top, remoteness from large villages. In ancient times, a narrow road located on the northern slopes of the rock led to the top of the Red Stone. Now it has turned into a steep path, quite surmountable for experienced tourists who have once again gone hiking in the Crimea. The path leads to a narrow stone ridge leading to the top. The surface of the rock is mostly flat, slightly convex in the center and has a slight slope towards the sea. From here you can see not only Gurzuf and part of the Main Ridge, but also the famous failed volcano Ayu-Dag, the sharp-toothed Nikitskaya Yayla and the green expanses of the Crimean Nature Reserve. In the distance you can see the blue expanse of the sea, the miniature houses of the village of Partenit, and a little closer - the neat ribbon of the Simferopol-Yalta highway. Many would like to live among such beauty, in a protected ecologically clean area, as is customary among those in power. Despite the fact that Red Stone is an archaeological and geological natural monument and has its own 25-meter security zone, in 2010 the approach to it was closed with a high fence, and the foundation of a house was poured nearby. Local residents immediately panicked and managed to recapture part of the land under the Utyug rock. Whether this conflict continues now is unknown, but the mansion near the lake has not yet been seen, which means that Red Stone (Crimea) continues to be a favorite place for rock climbers, archaeologists and tourists. As before, colorful dots of tents can be seen in the clearings around the Stone.

Legends of Red Stone

1. Once a beautiful girl was riding on a horse on a date with her lover. The young man’s mother disliked her future daughter-in-law and once again wanted to interfere with their date. The son had no idea that his own mother was a witch. An insidious woman cast a spell on the girl, and she and her horse turned into stone. This is how the Rock of the Bride, or Gelin-Kaya, appeared.

2. One day, not far from a Tatar village, a beautiful girl rode on a horse. She reproached herself for speaking publicly. It is unknown what these words were, but the girl cried bitterly, cursing herself for the awkwardness. She cursed herself so much that she immediately turned into a giant rock. To this day, from the sea side, in the outlines of Red Stone, you can recognize a girl on a horse.

3. In the Middle Ages, a young girl, the intended bride, fleeing from pursuers who had kidnapped her groom, climbed to the top of a low cliff, thereby trapping herself. Realizing that she would not be able to go down the steep slopes, and her pursuers were getting closer, she threw herself down from a 70-meter height in despair. However, by a happy coincidence, it didn’t crash! In memory of this wonderful event, the villagers built a church on the top of the rock. Miraculously, the surviving girl began to live in the church, but over time she disappeared, and every year on the eve of St. John's Day she appears to tourists, treats them with sweets and hopes to find her lover among the people, whose fate remains unknown.

In Crimea there are many natural places that are recognized as natural monuments. One of them is the “Red Stone”, also known as Kizil-Kaya or Gelin-Kaya - a huge rock located on the outskirts of the Yalta Nature Reserve, not far from Gurzuf. It is a popular tourist attraction that annually attracts a large number of vacationers.

Natural miracle of the Gurzuf basin

This unique natural attraction looks like a huge boulder, as if it came from outer space. In fact, the Red Stone is a so-called “outlier” - a part of the rock that broke away from the main Crimean mountain range and is slowly sliding towards the sea. Red stone is a rock with a flat top and vertical walls, about seventy meters high from the surface of the earth and four hundred and thirty meters above sea level. The transverse size of the rock below is at least one hundred and thirty meters. Scientists claim that the speed of the rock’s sliding is such that in two hundred thousand years this block will already be in the waters of the Black Sea. Of course, for us this time period is incomprehensible, but by the standards of geology and history of the Earth we can say that the Red Stone slides down on light clay, as if on a sled down a snowy hill. This natural landmark got its name from its color.

The walls of the rock are made up of marble-like limestone of a pink-yellow hue, and the flat top is completely red. The rock looks especially impressive during sunrises or sunsets, when it is all painted in various red shades.

The color contrasts at this time are very clear and this makes it look even more picturesque. Next to the Red Stone there is a wonderful lake. It is very beautiful here in the spring, when scarlet poppies bloom along its banks against the background of green grass.

Legends of the Red Stone

This unique natural attraction is also called the Bride’s Rock and this name is associated with an existing legend. One day a young girl was hurrying on a bay horse to meet her fiancé. However, his insidious mother, who was an evil witch, cast her spell on the beauty and turned her and her horse into a large rock. This is how this enchanted Rock of the unfortunate bride has stood for a long time. According to another legend, a young girl climbed a rock to escape persecution. However, seeing that there was no way to hide, she simply threw herself down from the top of a high vertical cliff. By luck or God's providence, the fall was successful, and the girl remained unharmed. In honor of this significant event, local residents built a monastery on this site.

According to another version of this legend, the girl managed to hide on the top of the mountain. From then to the present, she lives there and waits for her chosen one, with whom she is ready to share love and the treasures stored in the depths of the rock.

If you look at the huge block of stone from the north-west, its gigantic cliff in its outline resembles the multi-meter profile of the leader of some Indian tribe. They also say that inside this huge rock there is a secret cave where partisans hid during the war, although there is no modern evidence of this. One can only guess how many more mysteries and secrets this natural miracle holds.

Tent holiday

The red stone has only one relatively flat side - this is the northern part with a rather steep path, which in ancient times was a road. It is not without difficulties, but without the appropriate preparation and necessary equipment you can climb to its top. The remaining walls are vertical on all three sides, so they are always popular with climbers who are not looking for easy ways and come here to hone their skills. It is convenient that nearby there is a lake with cool water, which is fed from underground springs; on the western side, Red Stone is washed by the Putamish River, and on the eastern side by a spring with clear ice water.

Climbers and just hikers set up tent camps here, so it’s extremely difficult to be alone with this natural wonder.

Perhaps at the top, where another surprise awaits everyone who climbs the rock - the ruins of the ancient fortress of Gelin-Kaya - an isar built in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries.

Medieval Isar Gelin-Kaya

Today, the remains of the ancient fortification that occupies the peak are about one hundred and twenty meters long and up to fifty meters wide. The views from the top of the rock are simply amazing: the entire Gurzuf basin between Mount Ayu-Dag and Cape Nikitsky in full view, a seaside strip with wonderful parks and large vineyards, picturesque panoramic views of the main Crimean ridge. It is simply impossible to tear yourself away from these natural landscapes. The flat top of the rock is divided into two parts by a fault and is practically devoid of vegetation. Here you can only find prickly juniper, a few rose hips, grass and a lot of stones.

A small but practically impregnable fortress was built during the period of the Genoese colonization of Crimea. It performed the tasks of a guard post and controlled the routes from the steppe regions of Crimea to the southern coast.

The fortress had a square tower ten meters high. It occupied a dominant position, especially over the northern part of the fortification, and carried out not only defensive and combat missions, but also performed patrol functions. If you look closely at the ruins, you can see the preserved corner of this tower, which is taller than a man. It was built from rubble stone, cemented with lime mortar. In addition to the tower, the passage to the plateau was blocked by a rather powerful defensive wall, thirty meters long and one and a half meters wide. Its size is evidenced by several rows of stone masonry that have survived to this day. An analysis of the ruins shows that the ancient military architects and builders, assessing the unique topography of the area, did the opposite: first they placed a tower, then a fortified passage and after that the main fortress wall with a gate. That is, we got a kind of inside-out fortress, where everything was done very thoroughly and rationally. The only thing that the builders of the fortress were unable to do was provide water. It was partially collected from tiled roofs, and mostly delivered in wineskins, creating a reserve in large pithoi.

Obviously, despite the inaccessibility of the Isar, its small size, small garrison and known problems with water made the fortification unviable during a prolonged siege.

At the same time, the fortification existed until the time of the Crimean Khanate. Today, the ruins of the ancient Isar consist of individual stones, rock cuts and fragments of tiled roofing.

In the southern part of Red Stone there was previously a small church and other buildings. Currently, a cross has been erected on the site of the church. Archaeologists have found here parts of ceramic products from the Greco-Byzantine era of the sixth to tenth centuries: amphorae, pieces of roofing tiles, fragments of glazed cups and bowls, jugs, parts of pithoi. In fact, the finds are few, but they give a sufficient idea of ​​the life and activities of man in these places in the Middle Ages.

Another attraction of this area is the excellent wine “White Muscat”, which is obtained from grapes from local vineyards located around the rock. The quality of this wine is evidenced by the fact that at prestigious competitions it received eighteen gold medals, it was twice recognized as world wine No. 1 and awarded the corresponding Grand Prix cups.

Muscat was highly valued by Queen Elizabeth II of England herself, who was sent a two-hundred-liter barrel of this sunny drink every year in the sixties of the last century.

Getting to the Red Stone with the ruins of an ancient fortress is easy. It is enough to get to the village of Krasnokamenka. The rock is visible from everywhere, it takes no more than fifteen minutes to walk to it and it is simply impossible to accidentally pass by.

In the very heart of the Gurzuf Valley, among the famous Crimean vineyards, rises the lonely rock Kyzyl Tash - Red Stone. The heavenly greenery of the gardens, fast streams and high blue skies are what attract tourists and photographers to the rock. Rock climbing enthusiasts will find an excellent training facility in Red Stone, and on the banks of the Putamish River you can enjoy calm, measured fishing with a consistently good bite. The facility is open to everyone, and attracts more and more people every year.

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Geography and history of the area

The rock is located on a small gentle hill near the village of Krasnokamenka. It is dome-shaped and consists of orange-pink calcareous rocks (hence the name Red Stone). The upper platform is located at an altitude of about 430 meters and is a plateau with small patches of vegetation. From the north, a narrow winding path rises to the top, while the other slopes are high sheer cliffs, which only climbers can climb.


This shape of the rock, as well as its favorable geographical location, determined the historical significance of the object. In ancient times, a powerful Genoese fort with a wall perimeter of more than 300 meters was located on Red Stone, which served as a guardian of the valley and a refuge for visiting merchants. However, during the Ottoman Empire, the ancient fortifications were destroyed and the rock lost its strategic importance. Only recent archaeological excavations have shed light on its military past.

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Geologists do not have a consensus regarding the appearance of the Red Stone in the middle of the plain. The most common version is that it was once a high mountain as part of the main ridge of the peninsula, but millions of years of erosion erased the neighboring elevations and gave the rock its modern shape. The slow destruction of rock is still observed today.

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Features of flora and fauna

Despite the fact that Red Stone in Crimea is a monolithic block, in its few cracks and crevices, as well as on the gentle northern slope, rare relict trees and shrubs are found, including species of juniper listed in the Red Book. At the foot of the cliff, white muscat grapes of exquisite varieties are cultivated, and a little further there are endless fields and rare corners of virgin nature.


The fauna of the surroundings of Red Stone is not rich. There are hares, hedgehogs and small rodents, and several species of bats. The most common birds in the region are the wood pigeon (wild pigeon), thrush, and raven. But in the rivers cutting through the valleys of the southern coast of Crimea, there is much greater diversity. In addition to trout, the fishing of which is officially prohibited, there are chub, bream, crucian carp and even pike.

How to get to the Red Stone?

The easiest way to see the famous rock with your own eyes is to book an excursion from Yalta or. If you prefer to travel by car, follow the Yuzhnoberezhnoe Highway to the Shosseynaya Road, which turns towards Krasnokamenka. Having reached the village, it is better to continue the path to the rock on foot.

Holidays on Red Stone are suitable for active and energetic people, because even on the northern slope it can be difficult to climb the mountain. But the reward will be a magnificent view from the upper platform of Gurzuf, distant Yalta and Mount Bear, as well as a green valley with blue ribbons of rivers. Sometimes tourists set up a real tent city on the top and stay there for several days.

Red stone on the map of Crimea

GPS Coordinates: N 55.531024, E 60.441354 Latitude/Longitude

 

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