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Juansi Waterfall Trail Jinbaoli Trail (Yulu Historical Trail) Qingtiangang Circular Trail Mt. Ding-Mt. Shiti Trail Pingding Historical Canal Trail
  • Qingtiangang visitor center → Qingtiangang Lingtounie → Qingtiangang Gate → Mt.Shiti → Mt. Ding → Fengguikou trailhead
  • Total distance 6.6 km, average slope 6 degrees, entire journey takes about 3 hours.

Mt. Ding-Mt. Shiti Trail

Public transportation
  1. Fengguikou Stop: Public light bus 1 (MRT Jiantan Station to Fengguikou Stop, only four buses daily, wave for buses anywhere in the mountains.)
  2. Shengren Bridge Stop: S 18 (MRT Jiantan Station to Shengren Waterfall)
  3. Qingtiangang Stop: S 15 main line (MRT Jiantan Station to Qingtiangang Stop), 108 (shuttle bus)
  4. Yangmingshan Bus Station: R5 (MRT Jiangtan Station to Yangmingshan), 108 (shuttle bus), 260 main line (Dongyuan, Taipei Main Station to Yangmingshan)
  5. Yangmingshan Stop: R5 (MRT Jiangtan Station to Yangmingshan), 230 (MRT Beitou Station to Yangmingshan), 260 main line (Dongyuan, Taipei Main Station to Yangmingshan), S 8 (MRT Shipai Station to Zhuzihu), S 9 (MRT Fuxing Station to Zhuzihu), 1717 Royal Bus (Taipei to Jinshan)

Get on 108 park bus at the Yangmingshan main bus terminal

By car

The trail begins at Qingtiangang and ends at the entrance of Fengguikou on Wanxi Industrial Road. Visitors traveling by car should use shuttle services or must return to their cars on foot.

  1. Shilin→ Fulin Road→Yangde Boulevard → Shanzaihou → Jingshan Road → Jingshan Road, Lane 101 → Lengshuikeng → Qingtiangang
  2. Tamsui, Sanzhi → 101 County Highway → 101A County Highway (Bailaka Highway) → Yangjin Highway → Zhonghu → Zhonghu Road of Armaments → Lengshuikeng → Qingtiangang
  3. Jinshan → Yangjin Highway → Zhonghu → Zhonghu Road of Armaments → Lengshuikeng → Qingtiangang
  4. Beitou → Xinbeitou → Quanyuan Road → Dingbi Bridge → Shamao Road → Yangjin Highway → Chung-San Hall → Xinyuan Street access road → Jingshan Road, Lane 101 → Lengshuikeng → Qingtiangang
  5. Zhongshan North Road, Sec. 5 → Fulin Road → Zhishan Road → Shengren Bridge → Zhishan Road, Sec. 3, Lane 336 → Wanxi Industrial Road → Fengguikou
Parking
  1. Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 1 (in front of Lengshuikeng visitor center / parking fees apply)
  2. Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 2 (opposite Lengshuikeng hot spring public baths
  3. Qingtiangang Parking Lot (in front of Qingtiangang visitor center / parking fees apply)
Animals
  • Chinese bamboo partridge
    Chinese bamboo partridge

    The body is round and chubby, lead-gray with white spots. Lower abdominal orange-brown with brown spots on either side. Beak is short and curves downwards, wings short and round, legs thick and strong. They are not good flyers. They feed on seeds, tender leaves, berries and insects in the ground. An elusive species not prone to flight. Often inhabits surface level of forests and grasslands. The Chinese bamboo partridge nests on the ground. Chicks mature quickly. Call: A loud and repetitive 'ki-ko-kuai' sound.

  • Japanese white-eye
    Japanese white-eye

    The entire body is green except for the abdomen, which is white; it also has a white circle around the eyes. The white-eye is often mistaken for the grey-cheeked fulvetta, the white-bellied erpornis, and other birds. Thin and pointy beak; fine white hairs around the eyes. Habitat is mainly forests, and it mostly feeds on insects and fruits.

  • Five-striped blue-tailed skink
    Five-striped blue-tailed skink

    The backs of these young lizards are black with three to five golden vertical stripes and a vibrantly blue tail. As it matures, its body gradually turns brown and the golden stripes and blue tail fade in color. Adults have a light-brown body with red vertical stripes along the side.

  • Formosan rabbit
    Formosan rabbit

    The rabbit is an endemic sub-species of the Leporidae family and has a habitat that ranges from level ground to mountains of up to 2,500 meters high. Within Yangmingshan National Park, the Formosan rabbit can be found on the borders of agricultural areas, forests, shrubs, and prairies. It is an herbivore and has a gray-brown protective coloration, and it multiplies rapidly with three to four litters annually.

Plants
  • Carpet grass
    Carpet grass

    Latin name: Axonopus affinis Chase Carpet grass belongs to the family Poaceae. Leaves are alternately arranged with a slight V-shaped fold at the leaf base. The grass in soft and pliable with colors ranging from green to yellow-green and sometimes dark red. Leave tips are dull and slightly round with a loose leaf sheath. The base overlaps. The inflorescence is spike-shaped, delicate with a finger-like arrangement. Flowering season is July to August. The stigma is purple. It is a perennial, low creeping grass.

  •  Formosan beauty berry
    Formosan beauty berry

    Latin name: Callicarpa formosana Rolfe The Formosan beauty berry is an excellent nectar plant. Its light purple flowers attract many insects. The fruit, when ripe, is also purple in color and is an excellent food source for various birds. Flowering season is from April to September.

  • Peacock pine
    Peacock pine

    Latin name: Cryptomeria japonica (L. f.) D. Don Peacock pine is an evergreen tree of the family Taxodiaceae. It has yellow-green to green leaves whose shape resembles fish teeth. Leaves tough and flat with a slightly curved, sharpened tip arranged alternate in a spiral along the stem. The cones, which are green in color and about 3-centimeters wide, turn brown and split open when ripe. Since the peacock pine was introduced to Taiwan, it has become a common tree at altitudes between 800 and 2,200 meters.

  • Dipteris conjugata
    Dipteris conjugata

    Latin name: Dipteris conjugata Reinw. Dipteris conjugata is a perennial fern. It has hard, creeping rhizomes with densely packed, black-brown hairy scales. The twin-forking main vein is a characteristic of ancient ferns and is symbolic of a living fossil species. The surface of the leaf is waxy to insulate against the cold.

  • Hardy wild ginger
    Hardy wild ginger

    Latin name: Alpinia intermedia Gagn. Hardy wild ginger belongs to the ginger family and is a perennial plant. It grows to about 1 to 3 meters tall and has large, smooth, and long leaves about 25 to 35 centimeters long and 5 to 8 centimeters wide. It has a panicle inflorescene and round berries which are red when ripe. The flowering season is from spring to autumn and is in full bloom during the summer months. The hardy wild ginger grows in mountain woodlands 300 to 1,000 meters above sea level.