Evaluation of Outdoor Recreation Potential with Emphasis on Effective

Evaluation of outdoor recreation potential is meaning the identification of land capability for outdoor recreation and ecotourism land use. First we identified the suitable areas for intensive and extensive outdoor recreation using five ecological parameters (slope, aspect, height, soil and vegetative cover) and usual method in Sorkhe Hesar forest park. Results showed that 297.223 hectares of park area have class 1 extensive outdoor recreation potential, 86.465223 hectares of park area class 2 extensive outdoor recreations potential, 1.126 hectares of park area class 1 intensive outdoor recreation potential and 137.417 hectares of park area class 2 intensive outdoor recreation potential and 16.212 hectares of park area is protection region. with field surveys to become characterized that one of problems that caused to increase rudeness in park nature is absence of attention to all effective factors (water resources and recreation facilities) in assigning to outdoor recreation potential of park. For this purpose and evaluation of visitor's suitable use from outdoor recreation places, used of questionnaire and verbal interview technique. Coincident with this evaluation, recognized all points concern to water resources and facilitie's park and recorded for provision of the water resources and facilitie's map using GPS. In addition to recorded situation all of points that questionnaires was dispensed in them at outdoor recreation classes. Result showed people usage of park, dont conforms to classification plan and outdoor recreation have direct relation with to water resources, facilities and tourism charisma of the park. Therefore these factors as positive informational layers intersected with primary recreation capability map and obtained final recreation capability map based on this factors. Final results showed that usual method despite very efficiency, because dont consideration all effective factors in outdoor recreation; need to enter other informational layers (for example water recourses and recreation facilities) in addition to ecological factors.