Explore Forest Parks in Yueyang
Route: Mufu Mountain National Forest Park-Shiniu Village National Geopark- Dayunshan National Forest Park- Wujian Mountain Forest Park
Mufu Mountain National Forest Park 幕阜山国家森林公园
Mufu Mountain Forest Park is famous for its spectacular scenery, sparkling waterfall, ancient temples, rare flora, blooming flowers, and vast mountain meadows. Its perfect ecological tourism resources resulted in its being approved as a national level park by the State Forestry Administration of PRC in 2005.
Known as a “gene bank” for flora and fauna its forest coverage rate is nearly 94%. It has the largest Taiwan Red Pine[pinustaiwanensis] area, more than 1,100 hectares, south of the Yangtze. It is home to one class I national protected animal, the clouded leopard (Neofelisnebulosa), and 22 species of class II national protected animals including, among others, as the flat-chested tortoise, the tiger frog, the macaques, the pangolin, the jackals otter, and the big civet.
Shiniu Village National Geopark 平江石牛寨地质公园
Situated at Pingjiang County, Yueyang, Hunan, the Shiniu Village National Geo-park is the biggest among all the newly-discovered Danxia landform in China. The Danxia landform refers to various landscapes found in southeast and southwest China that “consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs”. It is a unique type of petrographic geomorphology found in China. Danxia landform is formed from red-colored sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age. Shiniu village scenic area lies at the cross of Hunan, Sichuan and Jiangxi Province, which is 65 kilometers away from Changsha.
It has a height of 523 meters and stretches over 10 square kilometers. Because there stands a huge stone that resembles a yellow cow to the west in the area, the place is also called Shiniuzhai (In Chinese, Shi means stone; niu means cow; zhai means stockade). In 2011, the geo-park was authorized as a national geo-park.
Dayunshan National Forest Park 大云山森林国家公园
Dayunshan National Forest Park is in the east of Yuyang City .It is famous for coexistence of Buddhism and Taoism .It represents grandeur and spectacular with 72 peaks .The Dayunshan Mountain resembles fairyland attributable to perilous peak ,strange rock ,serene spring ,deep gully and twisting range .
Wujian Mountain Forest Park 五尖山森林公园
It is 1 kilometer from the suburbs and is the forestry centre with an area of 1,800 hectares. Stumpage totals 100,000 cubic meters. It consists of five peaks, including Jiaoding Mountain, Yingzui Mountain, ZhouJia Mountain, Wangcheng Mountain and the Magu Mountain. The highest elevation is 588 meters, surrounding by 72 peaks. The park is divided into four big scenic areas, namely Wangcheng Mountain, colored watchtower, Chai Jiachong, Baibu ladder. It is a beautiful place .