Domestic and foreign travelers mountainous and forested Crimea attracts no less than the azure sea coast. However, the poor quality of tourist routes, the lack of appropriate infrastructure and the lack of binding the points of the route to the available geographical maps of the area is a direct threat to the health and lives of tourists. Therefore, pulling up the tourist infrastructure to the European level, the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2005 adopted a decree № 160 on the marking of routes and assigned responsibility for its implementation to the staff of the Reskomlesa ARC. The Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of Crimea approved the order of marking tourist routes, which ensures the protection of natural resources, increasing the informativeness and safety of hiking trails. Well, now mountain hiking will become more comfortable for many extreme hikers! How wonderful that tourists will now have the opportunity to travel and enjoy Crimea without threats.
Large-scale work to improve the tourist infrastructure in the mountainous and forested area was started by the employees of the Crimean Control and Rescue Service together with volunteers in 2012 with the financial support and assistance of the Czech government. Marking is carried out in accordance with European standards. In specially provided places are installed signs and stands containing information about the name of routes, the height of the geographical point, telephone numbers of rescue services, GPS-coordinates of the place, distances to the nearest parking lots. The texts of information signs are in Russian and English. The main routes are marked in red and blue color; connecting passages and trails between neighboring routes are marked in green and yellow color. The signposts are made in the Czech Republic. In the future, the Soyuzkarta Research and Production Center plans to produce geographical maps with marked routes.
More detailed information about each route can be found on the website of Reskomles and on the portal of the Crimean Control and Rescue Service of the ARC. The work continues, and as of October 2013, 530 km of tourist routes have already been marked out of all 984 km.