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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
  • Yangmingshan bus stop → Chung-San Hall front entrance →Jingshan Camping Area → Jingshan Street, Lane 101 (Xinyuan Street)→ Jingshan Nature Center → Lengshuikeng visitor center
  • Total distance 5.2 km, average slope 2-7 degrees, entire journey takes about 2 hours and 45 minutes.

Jingshan Road and Xinyuan Street Pedestrian Trail

Public transportation
  1. Lengshuikeng Stop: S 15 main line (MRT Jiantan Station to Qingtiangang Stop), 108 (shuttle bus)
  2. Juansi Waterfall Stop: S 15 main line (MRT Jiantan Station to Qingtiangang Stop), 108 (shuttle bus)
  3. 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 Yangmingshan bus stop and ends at Lengshuikeng. Visitors traveling with their own vehicles can park at any nearby parking lot and take the 108 shuttle bus back.

  1. Shilin→ Fulin Road→Yangde Boulevard → Shanzaihou → Jingshan Road → Jingshan Road, Lane 101 → Lengshuikeng (or Chung-San Hall → Xinyuan Street access road → Jingshan Road, Lane 101 → Lengshuikeng)
  2. Tamsui, Sanzhi → 101 County Highway → 101A County Highway (Bailaka Highway) → Yangjin Highway → Zhonghu → Zhonghu Road of Armaments → Lengshuikeng (or right turn on Yangjin Highway onto Yangmingshan stop)
  3. Jinshan → Yangjin Highway → Bayan → Macao Bridge → Zhonghu → Zhonghu Road of Armaments → Lengshuikeng (or Yangjin Highway → Yangmingshan stop)
  4. Beitou → Xinbeitou → Quanyuan Road → Shamao Road → Yangming Road → Chung-San Hall → Xinyuan Street access road → Jingshan Road, Lane 101 → Lengshuikeng (or travel to Yangmingshan stop on Shamao Road)
Parking
  1. Yangmingshan Second Parking Lot (across the road from the visitor center / parking fees apply)
  2. Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No.1 (in front of Lengshuikeng visitor center / parking fees apply)
  3. Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 2 (opposite Lengshuikeng hot spring public baths)
  4. Menghuan Pond Parking Lot (below Menghuan Pond)
Animals
  • Indian forest skink
    Indian forest skink

    Lizards and snakes are the most commonly seen reptiles in Yangmingshan. Walking along the trails, visitors will sometimes see the Indian forest skink. Its body is brown with numerous little black spots. A wide black band runs down the sides of its body.

  • 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.

  • Northern large darter
    Northern large darter

    The darter has blackish-brown wings with accented orange stripes; the underside of its wings is lighter in color. Male butterflies have diagonal band of dark-gray spots in the middle of the forewing. Larvae feed on palm grass, dog's tooth grass, and bamboo of the Poaceae family. Adults are capable of rapid flight and can sometimes be seen next to trails or the forest edge.

  • 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
  • Japanese privet
    Japanese privet

    Latin name: Ligustrum liukiuense Koidz. The small white flowers give off a pleasant fragrance. The leaves are oppositely arranged, a common characteristic of plants in the Oleaceae family. Flowering season is from April to June. The fruit of the Japanese privet are drupes that are oval in shape. Fruits turn from green to purplish black when ripe.

  • Chinese bayberry
    Chinese bayberry

    Latin name: Myrica rubra (Lour.) Sieb. & Zucc. An evergreen tree that likes warm and humid weather, the Chinese bayberry can reach heights of 20 meters. The bark is a gray brown color with many branches. Leaves are egg shaped and smooth, growing on branch tips in alternate or clustered arrangements. Flowers are dioecious with male flowers bright red in a catkin inflorescence. Fruits are round drupes that turn red when ripe.

  • Common tree-fern
    Common tree-fern

    Latin name: Sphaeropteris lepifera (Hook.) Tryon A large tree fern, the common tree-fern does not produce flowers, fruit or seeds, reproducing with spores. It has a high stem and a thick petiole and lives in damp, dark original forests. Oval leaf marks are formed on the petiole when old leaves wither and drop off. Hollowing and drying out the upper part of the stem produces brush pots, which is where the fern received its Chinese name, the “brush pot tree”. Layers of aerial roots (called “snake wood” in Chinese) are found on the lower half of the stem, which are often used to cultivate orchids.

  • 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.

  • Palm grass
    Palm grass

    Latin name: Setaria palmifolia (Koen.) Stapf Palm grass is also known as the “brown-leafed dogtail grass” in Chinese. The leaves are wide with one to three horizontal creases, which sometimes matches the number of typhoons in a certain year, hence in Chinese it is known as “typhoon grass”. Palm grass is a heliophyte and can be seen throughout Taiwan and along footpaths within Yangmingshan National Park.

  • 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.