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About Lushan Mountain
Lushan Forest Park covers 40,000 mu with a forest cover of 95.2 per cent, a mountain landscape of ridges and deep ravines with waterfalls and springs among pine and cypress. The ground falls away from west to east, most of it between 480 and 990 metres, and the bedrock is acidic rock, chiefly gneiss. The county records more than a thousand plant species in the park along with 168 kinds of bird, 22 mammals and 561 insects, and gives the average annual temperature as 11.9 degrees Celsius.
Four natural areas have been opened up: Jinxiu Valley, the Lushan summit, Zizhu Valley and Shengmingyuan. Among the hundred or so named spots are the Xuanyun waterfall, which the county calls Zibo's foremost waterfall, the Wangfeng cave, the Zizhu moso bamboo grove described as the highest and largest north of the Yangtze, the Lushan reservoir described as the highest in Shandong, the longest underground river in the province, the Yixiantian cleft and the Xiangshui pool, together with the Ming-dynasty Mahavira Hall, the Tuochan Temple and the Zhigong Pagoda. Sunrise, seas of cloud and winter rime are listed among the mountain's distinctive sights, and local tradition holds both that Lu Ban invented the saw here and that this is the eastern mountain Confucius climbed when he found the state of Lu small.
What to look for
- The summit of Lushan at 1,108.3 metres, the fourth highest point in Shandong
- The Xuanyun waterfall, which the county describes as Zibo's foremost waterfall
- The Zizhu moso bamboo grove, said to be the highest and largest such grove north of the Yangtze
- The Ming-dynasty Mahavira Hall, the Tuochan Temple and the Zhigong Pagoda within the park
- The Yixiantian cleft, the Wangfeng cave and the Xiangshui pool along the developed valleys
Location & getting there
Getting to Lushan Mountain
Check weather, trail access and the last return service. A mountain or forest area is not one entrance, and a map’s central pin may be far from the trailhead.
- Search for 鲁山 with 淄博市 and 沂源县.
Find Lushan Mountain
鲁山 · 沂源县
No reliable map pin yet: search by the Chinese name.
Sources & visit information
The linked sources support the identity and background described in this introduction. Opening hours, admission, activity availability and exact arrival arrangements have not been comprehensively checked. Confirm current visitor information with the venue; the original catalogue locality and editorial review flag are retained.