Beidi Mountain 北帝山

About Beidi Mountain

The area lies at the southern foot of the Dayaoshan National Nature Reserve, and the autonomous region's Radio and Television Administration gives its planned extent as 22.4 square kilometres with forest cover above 95 per cent. Pingnan county names the Beidi peaks, at about 1,300 metres, and the Langchong stone forest among its features, along with a sea of rhododendron. The county presents the place as resting on its landscape setting and on local folk culture, and singles out Beidi worship and the county's zhuangyuan tradition, the tradition of the top candidate in the imperial examinations, as the cultural threads running through it.

The two institutional descriptions differ in their wording of the local six-part formula for the mountain's qualities; that phrase is left aside here. What both agree on is the administrative picture: Beidishan is a national AAAA-grade tourist scenic area, and the autonomous region's culture and tourism department still carried it at that grade in its register of A-grade scenic areas compiled to the end of 2021.

What to look for

• The Beidi peaks, which the county gives at an elevation of about 1,300 metres
• The Langchong stone forest, among the features the county names
• The sea of rhododendron the county lists among the area's named features
• The forest itself, which the autonomous region records as covering more than 95 per cent of the tourist area

Location & getting there

Getting to Beidi 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.

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