{"id":6900,"date":"2011-10-26T22:46:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T14:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2022-04-09T20:57:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:57:44","slug":"how-to-visit-mangshan-mangshan-mountain-national-forest-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-excursions\/how-to-visit-mangshan-mangshan-mountain-national-forest-park","title":{"rendered":"How to visit Mangshan, Mangshan Mountain National Forest Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you like mountain climbing in Beijing? Hiking the Mangshan Mountain is highly\u00a0recommended.\u00a0Mangshan Moutain is a national level forst park which is located to the\u00a0east of the Ming Tombs Reservior in Changping District<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, about 50km north of Beijing city center.”Mang” literally means “boa constrictor” due to the similarity\u00a0between “Mang Mountain” and a huge snake, hence the name of “Mang Mountain”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mangshan is the largest forest park around Beijing with an area of 86 km2. There are over 170\u00a0species of trees and flowers, constituting a charming scenery and producing fresh air.<\/span><\/p>\n

The summit of Mangshan Mountain is 659 meters high with a slab paved mountain path leading up to the top. On the top there is an Observation Tower 37m high.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plentiful\u00a0activities take place in the Park each year, such as planting in March <\/a><\/strong>& April<\/a><\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0Mountain climbing and and flowers peeping\u00a0in April & May, fruits picking up from June to October,\u00a0see the red leaves of maple trees in Autumn.<\/span><\/p>\n

How to get there & Entrance Fees
<\/span><\/strong>1. Self drive: Drive along Beijing Changping Expressway, get off\u00a0at Changping Xiguan Exit. Continue to drive eastward the downtown of Changping, the continue to drive along Shuiku Road ( Reservior Road ).\u00a0Follow the road signs to Mangshan Mountain.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Take public bus
<\/span>Take Bus 919 (Deshengmen -Jiulong Amusement Park) at Deshengmen,
<\/span>Bus 845 at Beijing Western Railway Station, Bus 912 Branch at Andingmen, and get off at the terminal; or Take Bus 345 Branch, get off at the terminal, and then transfer to Bus 6 Ring or 912 to get there.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Entrance fee: RMB 20<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the Ming Tombs Reservir, behind the reservior, or east of the reservior is the Mangshan Mountain resembling a huge snake.<\/span><\/div>\n
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the Ming Tombs Reservir, behind the reservior, or east of the reservior is the Mangshan Mountain resembling a huge snake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Several vedors selling local products incluing persimmons, dates, hawthorns<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0Driving along the Reservior Road toward the Mangshan Mountain<\/div>\n
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A distant view of the entrance to Mangshan National Forest Park.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A distant view of the entrance to Mangshan National Forest Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Tip: Hassle-free Beijing Guided Tours<\/h2>\n

If you don\u2019t want to go the do-it-yourself route and prefer the hassle-free escorted tours,\u00a0 here are some options for Beijing guided tours:<\/p>\n

Beijing Day Tour<\/a>
Beijing Tour Packages<\/a>
Great Wall Tour<\/a>
Beijing City Tour<\/a>
Beijing Winter Tour<\/a>
Beijing Autumn Tour<\/a>
Car Rental in Beijing<\/a>
Beijing Tours<\/a>
China City Tours<\/a>
China Tour<\/a><\/p>\n

Further Readings<\/h2>\n
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Best Time to Visit Beijing<\/a>
How to plan a trip to Beijing<\/a><\/p>\n

Top 10 Attractions in Beijing<\/a>
How to Visit Forbidden City<\/a>
How to Visit Temple of Heaven<\/a>
How to Visit Summer Palace<\/a>
How to Visit Ming Tombs<\/a>
How to Visit the Great Wall of China<\/a>
How to Visit Tiananmen Square<\/a>
How to Visit Hutongs<\/a>
How to Visit Olympic Sites<\/a><\/p>\n

Top 10 Markets in Beijing<\/a>
Top 10 Shopping Malls in Beijing<\/a>
Beijing Shopping<\/a><\/p>\n

Wangfujing Walking Street<\/a>
Qianmen Commercial Street<\/a>
Gui Jie ( Ghost Street) Food Street<\/a><\/p>\n

Any questions, just drop a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Do you like mountain climbing in Beijing? Hiking the Mangshan Mountain is highly\u00a0recommended.\u00a0Mangshan Moutain is a national level forst park which is located to the\u00a0east of the Ming Tombs Reservior in Changping District, about 50km north of Beijing city center.”Mang” literally means “boa constrictor” due to the similarity\u00a0between “Mang Mountain” and a huge snake, hence…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[694],"tags":[1459,1461,1460],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-excursions","tag-mang-mountain","tag-mangshan","tag-mangshan-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31456,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/31456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}