Longtan National Forest Park 龙潭国家森林公园

About Longtan National Forest Park

The park covers 107,000 mu on a spur of the Dayaoshan range, ground the park describes as the third highest in Guiping and as mid-mountain terrain with Danxia landforms. It counts 138 peaks above 800 metres, the highest of them Dapingshan at 1,158 metres, and puts its forest cover at 93.3 per cent. Its vegetation is south-subtropical monsoon evergreen broadleaf forest. Dateng Gorge, a gorge on the Qianjiang running fifteen kilometres from Bitan to Nutan, lies along the park's outer edge.

The park's own record of its biota lists 1,093 plant species in 533 genera and 166 families. Among them the golden camellia and yuanzihe are protected at the first national grade, and more than thirty species at the second grade, including tree ferns, zijingmu, guojianglong and the five-needle pine. On the animal side it lists 112 species in 56 families, with the Yaoshan crocodile lizard protected at the first grade and more than ten second-grade species among them the rhesus macaque, the pangolin and the Chinese giant salamander. The park opened to visitors in 2005 and was rated a national AAAA-grade tourist scenic area in 2012; Guiping city lists it among its principal scenic areas at that grade, and the autonomous region's culture and tourism department carried it at 4A in its register compiled to the end of 2021.

What to look for

• Dapingshan, at 1,158 metres the highest of the 138 peaks the park records above 800 metres
• The tree ferns, which the park lists among its second-grade nationally protected plants
• The golden camellia, one of the two plants the park records as protected at the first national grade
• The forest cover, which the park puts at 93.3 per cent of its area
• Dateng Gorge on the Qianjiang along the park's outer edge, fifteen kilometres from Bitan to Nutan

Location & getting there

Getting to Longtan National Forest Park

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.

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