Longcanggou Forest Park 龙苍沟

About Longcanggou Forest Park

The State Forestry Administration approved Longcanggou's upgrading from a provincial forest park to a national forest park in December 2000. The county chronicles office describes the scenic area as old-growth forest of layered ridges, dense trees, drifting cloud and criss-crossing ravines, with waterfalls, clear green pools, a natural bridge and rhododendrons. It singles out the dove-tree woods, calling the tree a living plant fossil and the stands extensive and unbroken. Giant panda, red panda, leopard, takin and pheasants are listed among the rare wild animals that occur in the park.

Yingjing County is the southern entrance to Giant Panda National Park; 836 square kilometres of the county, 47 per cent of its area, were placed inside that park, and 28 wild giant pandas are known to live there. Longcanggou township was itself placed in the national park's south-entrance community. China Green Times records 19 nationally key protected wild plant species and 81 nationally key protected wild animal species within the county.

What to look for

• The dove-tree (Davidia involucrata) woods, which the county chronicles office calls a living plant fossil and describes as extensive and unbroken.
• The natural bridge listed among the park's features.
• Waterfalls, and the clear green pools the county chronicles office names alongside them among the park's features.
• Rhododendrons, named in the same county account alongside the park's waterfalls and pools.

Location & getting there

Getting to Longcanggou 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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