Guanshan Geopark 关山

About Guanshan Geopark

The park is classified as a landform geopark, and what it protects is the record of a mountainside that has broken apart. Its defining features are a forest of freestanding stone pillars, the Red Stone Gorge, and a narrow cleft known as 'one line of sky', set among waterfalls, springs and clear pools. Collapse and rock fissuring are named as the processes that shaped it, rather than water erosion alone.

Guanshan is also biologically rich. Within the scenic area lies a national macaque nature reserve of 13,000 hectares. The county government records around thirty mammal species there, including leopard, wild boar and deer, more than a hundred bird species including golden eagle, and over 1,500 plant species; it singles out the Taihang macaque and the Guanshan snow lotus as especially rare. The area is one of five scenic areas grouped into the Xinxiang South Taihang resort district, alongside Baligou, Tianjieshan and Jiulianshan, Wanxian Shan, Qiugou and Qiwangzhai.

What to look for

• The stone pillar forest, the freestanding rock columns left by the collapse of the mountainside
• The Red Stone Gorge, the red-rock canyon that gives the park its colour
• The narrow 'one line of sky' cleft opened by rock fissuring
• The waterfalls, springs and clear pools threaded through the broken ground
• The national macaque nature reserve of 13,000 hectares inside the scenic area, home to the Taihang macaque

Location & getting there

Getting to Guanshan Geopark

Use an authorised visitor route. Cave sections, geological sites and access roads can close independently, so confirm the area that your ticket covers.

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