Karytaina-Dimitsana Road

The Karytaina-Dimitsana Road is a 30-km long road that connects the two federal roads, the GR-76 near Karytaina and the GR-74 (Pyrgos - Tripoli, about 10 km north of Dimitsana. It runs entirely in the Arcadia prefecture and the province of Gortynia. The road was paved in the 1960s and the 1970s. It runs entirely east of the Lousios Gorge and its river. The road is considered scenic and it offers a breathtaking view of the Lousios Gorge.

Information

Karytaina's gas station is by the road in Karytaina and bypasses the town since the 1960s. The road enters a place filled with forests, hills and groves up to Elliniko. It enters a grassy area and it becomes treacherous north to Dimitsana and offers views of Megalopoli and the Lykaio mountains as well as a mountain to the south and the Loussios gorge. North of the junction, the road is difficult, treacherous and narrow throughout. Power lines runs on the west side. It enters into narrow nearly unvegetated valleys. Into the town of Stemnitsa, the road is almost one-laned for 1 km and by the road is several shops, the town hall of Trikolones, the town square and its post office, after the road slightly narrows and again sees the forested part of the gorge, into Dimitsama and again one-laned for 1 km but slightly longer and passes by the town hall, shops, its school?, its post office and a town square and runs narrowly for a couple of kilometres, it enters a forested valley and at the junction with the road to Servos passes near a farmland, at about 1.5 km, the road ends at the GR-74.

Junctions and Intersections

*Road to the town of Karytaina and Atsicholos (1st km)
*Poor road to the Lousios Gorge
*Road to Syrna, Palamari, Pavlia and Palaiomoiri (Koloni)
*Road to Zygovisti
*Road to Alonistana and Tripoli, see Dimitsana-Tripoli Road
*Road to Zatouna
*Road to Servos

References