????TAIPINGSHAN, with MISTY MOUNTAINS and HOT SPRINGS (太平山森林遊樂區)
Third day of our trip along the Northern Cross-Island Highway in Taiwan. Morning in Yingshi at the Lanyang River, Taipingshan Visitor Center, Cuifeng Lake, Taipingshan Villa, Ancient Tree Trail, Jianqing Historic Trail, and Jiuzhize Hot Springs.
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From Travel in Taiwan (11/12, 2016) article:
Author: Rick Charette
The long road up into the magnificent, sprawling Taipingshan National Forest Recreation Area, marked “Mount Taiping,” starts at the bridge’s south end. After a short distance you’ll see a large roadside display of logging-railway equipment and facilities, including a small wood-built transshipment station. Through the 20th century Taipingshan was one of Taiwan’s three largest logging areas; the Japanese built narrow-gauge lines throughout the region to facilitate extraction.
The drive up to Taipingshan Villa, the center of the forest recreation area, takes about an hour. On the way, you will first come to the toll station (adults NT$150; Mon~Fri, NT$200 weekends/holidays) and then, about 15 minutes later, the visitor center, which has info boards and multimedia displays and provides maps of hiking trails in the Taipingshan area. About 20 minutes beyond this is the roadside Jianqing Historic Trail trailhead. This was my favorite hike on this trip, along a misty mountainside-hugging pathway of lyrical beauty lifted straight from a poem, over old sections of Japanese-built tracks and past creaky moss-covered trestles.
The Taipingshan Villa area is pierced through its center by a long, wide staircase that lifts you up to what was originally a Shinto shrine, which faces Japan. Directly behind is the short sacred-tree Primeval Forest Trail. From Taipingshan Villa, the road through the forest recreation area continues, now very narrow in sections, for about 16km to the exquisite Cuifeng Lake, Taiwan’s largest alpine lake. There, the premium-quality 3.7km Cuifeng Lake Circle Trail takes you high above and around the barrier lake, to lookouts and past more intriguing logging-era relics.
Before heading back to Taipei, we capped off our highway expedition in style and comfort with a hot-spring soak at the busy Jiuzhize (Renze) Hot Springs far down-mountain, located just above the toll station. There are both private and public baths (nude and clothed; public pools NT$150 Apr-Sept), and the setting is striking, cliffs behind, rugged river before, great bursts of sulfurous steam rising from the Earth’s depths.
English and Chinese
Cuifeng Lake 翠峰湖
Cuifeng Lake Circle Trail 翠峰湖環山步道
Jianqing Historic Trail 見晴懷古步道
Jiuzhize (Renze) Hot Springs 鳩之澤溫泉
Northern Cross-Island Highway 北部橫貫公路
Taipingshan National Forest Recreation Area 太平山國家森林遊樂區
Taipingshan Villa 太平山莊
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Yilan county commissioner fed up with bureau testing freeway schemes on National Freeway N...
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