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Yangjin Highway Pedestrian Trail Bailaka Highway Pedestrian Trail Lengshuikeng-Qingtiangang Pedestrian Trail Mt. Qixing bus stop to Lengshuikeng Pedestrian Trail Jingshan Road and Xinyuan Street Pedestrian Trail
  • Mt. Qixing bus stop →Observation deck →Bailaka saddle trailhead → Erziping visitor center
  • Total distance 2.5 km, average slope 2-4 degrees, entire journey takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Bailaka Highway Pedestrian Trail

Public transportation
  1. Erziping Bus Stop: 108 (shuttle bus)
  2. Mt. Qixing bus stop: 108 (shuttle bus), 1717 Royal Bus (Taipei to Jinshan)
  3. Yangmingshan Bus Station: R5 (MRT Jiangtan Station to Yangmingshan), 108 (shuttle bus), 260 main line (Dongyuan, Taipei Main Station to Yangmingshan)
  4. 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

This trail starts from Mt. Qixing bus stop and ends at Erziping bus stop. Visitors traveling with their own vehicles can park at any nearby parking lot and take the 108 shuttle bus back to the parking lot.

  1. Shilin→ Fulin Road→Yangde Boulevard → Yangming Road → Yangjin Highway → Mt. Qixing bus sto
  2. Tamsui, Sanzhi → 101 County Highway → 101A County Highway (Bailaka Highway) → Mt. Datun pass trailhead → Mt. Qixing bus stop
  3. Beitou → Xinbeitou → Quanyuan Road → Dingbi Bridge → Shamao Road → Yangjin Highway → Mt. Qixing bus stop
Parking
  1. Erziping Parking Lot No. 1 (next to the Erziping trail)
  2. Erziping Parking Lot No. 2 (opposite Erziping Parking Lot No. 1)
  3. Datun parking lot (next to the Datun visitor center / for disabled persons only)
  4. Xiaoyoukeng Bridge Parking Lot (close to 1717 Royal Bus Mt. Qixing bus stop)
  5. Xiaoguanyin Parking Lot (next to the 1717 Royal Bus Xiaoyoukeng bus stop)
Animals
  • Chestnut tiger
    Chestnut tiger

    Among the numerous butterfly species, the chestnut tiger is the species that appears earliest during the butterfly-watching season. During the May 'plum rain' season, many chestnut tigers form quite a spectacle as they feed on orchid nectar along the trail from Erziping parking lot to Mt. Datun main peak.

  • Formosan wild boar
    Formosan wild boar

    The wild boar is smaller in size than domestic species. They are nocturnal omnivores which feed on anything from tender roots, bulbs, berries, and farm crops. They have a habit of flattening down grass for a place to rest. They also dig for tree and awn roots and leave behind cylindrical footpaths. The Formosan wild boar lives for about fifteen to twenty years.

  • Talbotia naganum karumii
    Talbotia naganum karumii

    This butterfly is slightly larger than the small white cabbage butterfly. It has a wing span of five to six centimeters. The wings of female butterflies feature more black spots than those of males. The larvae feed on the leaves of the rare Bretschneidera sinensis, which is currently the larvae's only known host plant. Adult butterflies are slow flyers and form groups. They feed on nectar, water from streams, bird feces, tree sap, etc.

  • Formosan red-bellied tree squirrel
    Formosan red-bellied tree squirrel

    The most commonly seen wild animal in the forest, the squirrel has a brown body and a distinctive red-brown stomach. They can be seen climbing up tree trunks or prancing among the branches with their bushy gray tails in regions at sea level as well as in the central mountain range up to an altitude of 2,000 meters.

Plants
  • Pinus luchuensis
    Pinus luchuensis

    Latin name: Pinus luchuensis Mayr. The trunk is straight and tall with a rough, gray-brown bark and cracked vertical grooves which flake off irregularly. Branches are categorized into long and short boughs. Branches are whorled and grow horizontally. These trees are currently at risk of contracting pine wood nematodes and each year many trees are infected and die.

  • Chinese elder
    Chinese elder

    Latin name: Sambucus chinensis Lindl. Chinese elder is a small evergreen shrub with upright and divergent stems. The leaves are long and grow in pairs. Between the inflorescence are yellow or orange-red cup-shaped glands which secrete nectar. It blooms little white flowers with round fruits, orange-red when ripe. The fruit attract insects which spread pollen around. Chinese elder grows in elevations from sea level to highlands of 2,500 meters along roads, levees, streams, foothills, etc.

  • Bretschneidera sinensis
    Bretschneidera sinensis

    Latin name: Bretschneidera sinensis Hemsl. A deciduous tree, its leaves are smooth and hairless on the front and filled with soft, short hairs on the back. In April, pink bell-shaped flowers bloom at the tips of the branches in a raceme pattern. The sepals are bell-shaped and hence its Chinese name, the “bell-shaped sepal tree”. It has been designated a protected rare plant. The tree needs plenty of sunlight but favors growing near wet valleys. It is a pioneer tree species in early evolutionary history and is a food source of the Talbotia naganum karumii butterfly larvae.

  • Taiwan cherry
    Taiwan cherry

    Latin name: Prunus campanulata Maxim. Taiwan cherry is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae. It has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. The leaves have clear main dorsal veins. Filamentous stipules can be found near the petioles when leaves are young. Since the stipules fall off quickly, only obvious nectaries can be found on older leaves. The flowers are made up of long purplish red petals. 3 to 5 blossoms grow in bunches on the leaf scar. The cherry's fruits are also purplish red in color when ripe. Flowers bloom from late December until April.

  • Usawa Cane
    Usawa Cane

    Latin name: Sinobambusa kunishii (Hayata) Nakai Usawa cane was once used to make arrow shafts (also called “arrow bamboo” in Chinese) because of its straight, tough, and durable culm (stem). It only flowers a single time in its life, resulting in the death of the parent plant and a new generation of bamboo shoots. Normally, bamboo shoots sprout from the bamboo's underground rhizome nodes to form new bamboo plants.