Huilong Tianjie Mountain 回龙天界山

About Huilong Tianjie Mountain

The area takes in the Huilong Grand Canyon, a broad basin ringed by ravines and red-rock gorges with sheer thousand-foot drops, and ridges over which cloud seas gather. Among its cultural features is Laoyeding, a Daoist site on the mountain, known through a paired saying that sets the 'golden summit' of Wudang in the south against the 'iron summit' of Huilong in the north. The county government counts more than a hundred distinct natural, cultural and revolutionary-history features within the boundary.

The name Huilong also belongs to the village below the cliffs, and the road that serves it is part of what people come to see. It climbs cliffs between roughly 800 and 1,700 metres. Until it was built, more than two hundred villagers reached the outside only by ladder-like paths pinned to the rock. From 1997 the village party secretary Zhang Rongsuo led more than 150 people over three years to cut an eight-kilometre switchback road and a 1,000-metre S-shaped tunnel into the cliff face. The village now works on revolutionary-history, cultural and ecological tourism and grows forsythia, and is counted within the Xinxiang South Taihang resort district.

What to look for

• The Huilong Grand Canyon, a basin-shaped gorge system of ravines and red rock
• Laoyeding, the Daoist summit known as the 'iron summit' in the saying that pairs it with Wudang's golden summit
• The 1,000-metre S-shaped tunnel cut into the cliff face at Huilong from 1997 onward
• The eight-kilometre switchback road climbing the precipices between about 800 and 1,700 metres
• The cloud seas that form over the Taihang ridges and the sheer drops of the red-rock gorges

Location & getting there

Getting to Huilong Tianjie 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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