Miyaluo Autumn Foliage 米亚罗彩林

About Miyaluo Autumn Foliage

Miyaluo town covers 1,025 square kilometres at an average elevation of 3,850 metres, administering 9 villages and 1 residential committee in 27 villager groups, with 1,122 households and 3,118 people, about 75% of them Tibetan. 'Miyaluo' is Tibetan for 'a fun flatland'; the town is a Jiarong Tibetan settlement area with, in the county government's description, rich Jiarong Tibetan traditions in architecture, Tibetan Buddhist practice, diet and marriage and funeral customs, held up as exemplary of Jiarong Tibetan custom. The town's profile describes its mountains, rivers and forests as scenic through all four seasons and calls it one of the largest and most spectacular red-leaf scenic areas so far discovered and opened in China, giving it the reputation 'blessed land of the Jiarong, home of red leaves'; its jurisdiction includes the 4A-grade Zhegushan Nature Park scenic area and the 3A-grade Miyaluo Jiarong Folk-Custom scenic area.

The surrounding Miyaluo Provincial Nature Reserve has recorded protected wildlife in recent monitoring. In September 2026 China Green Times reported that reserve staff reviewing infrared-camera data had recorded four snow leopards together on camera for the first time since the reserve's founding, filmed on 10 January that year in a high-altitude rocky cliff area at dusk and before dawn, with the animals described as sturdy and in good health; the reserve has used routine patrols, a grid of infrared cameras, habitat restoration and anti-poaching campaigns to protect the area. In 2015 reserve staff monitoring at Bipenggou found a troop of an estimated 100-plus Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys, a first-class nationally protected species endemic to China, moving through the forest less than 300 metres from the scenic area's road.

What to look for

• The autumn foliage across Miyaluo town's mountains and river valleys, the feature the county government's own page holds up as one of China's largest red-leaf scenic areas.
• The high-altitude rocky cliff terrain of the Miyaluo Provincial Nature Reserve, where four snow leopards were filmed together in January 2026.
• Bipenggou, within the nature reserve, where a troop of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys was recorded in the forest near the scenic road.
• Jiarong Tibetan architecture, dress and custom in the town, described by the county government as exemplary of the tradition.

Location & getting there

Getting to Miyaluo Autumn Foliage

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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