Olympus National Park Information Center — Attraction in Dion - Olympos Municipality

First, the place looks deserted and run down, at least from the outside. But our main problem was the information itself... The office had no maps/brochures to hand out, and the ones they allowed us to take pictures of was awful and uninformative. Worst than that, the lady who "helped" us, directed us to a bad trail, hot and boring (the lower part of the canyon). We wanted to have a nice one-day trek, and instead of insisting the upper part is much nicer, easier, cooler and unique, she said "the canyon is the same anyway". Not!! Only the following day, when we went to the tourist info in town, we got good maps (plus a tip there are even better, professional ones at the opposite shop - why couldn't the national park office say that?) and excellent advise - and this is not even their job! Bottom line: avoid this...

Huge building. On edge of town. The road that takes you up Mount Olympus. Great layout inside. Big display Greek and English. Unfortunately the sign to the building is inside the tall steel gates. One side of the gate was open. Could not tell if there was a name on the gate. The gentlemen on duty said that path to the 1st rest stop was on the road path. Lack of communication I was told by other walkers there was a path thru the forest and caves. That would have been nice as it...

It was a rainy winter day when we went. The ranger there was very friendly and knowledgeable. She gave us advice on how we could see some of the mountain even though the road might not be open due to snow. There is an excellent exhibit in the info center that had information on the geology, history, flora, fauna, and mythology of Mount Olympus. I definitely recommend stopping in if you are in Litochoro, even if you are not planning to do much on...