Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is located in the northwest of Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province. On September 25, 1982, with the approval of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the original Zhangjiajie Forest Farm was officially named "Zhangjiajie National Forest Park", which was also the first national forest park in China. In December 1992, the unique quartz sandstone peak forest was listed on the World Heritage List by the United Nations, and in February 2004, it was included in the World Geopark. The total area of the park is 4810 hectares.

The natural scenery of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is known for its peaks, valleys, and forests. Among them, there are over 3000 unique peaks, resembling humans, beasts, and objects, with lifelike images and magnificent momentum. They are known as "three thousand unique peaks and eight hundred beautiful waters".

The sandstone peak forest landform in Zhangjiajie is a unique landform and natural geographical feature, developed in the Devonian Yuntaiguan Formation and Huangjiadeng Formation, with a concentrated distribution area of 86 square kilometers for peak forests. It is a rare and unique landform formed under specific geological structures, new tectonic movements, and external forces. There are over 3000 stone cliffs rising from the ground in the park, with more than 1000 exceeding 200 meters in height. The Golden Whip Rock is as high as 350 meters, and its individual forms include square mountains, plateaus, peak walls, peak clusters, peak forests, stone gates, natural bridges, canyons, and valleys. The park is centered around the world's unique sandstone peak forest landscape, complemented by karst landscape, and features a large number of geological relics such as formed geological profiles and special fossil production areas, forming a unique sandstone peak forest landscape combination.

Main attractions

Yuan Jiajie

Yuanjiajie is a mountain located at the northern foot of Sandaogou, mainly composed of quartzite. It is a scenic area in Zhangjiajie Park. Entering Shandao Gou from Zicao Pond on the left side of Jinbian River, you can go up to Yuanjiajie. Following the edge of Yuanjiajie terrace, you can also go down the deserted path and reach the meeting point of Jinbian River for thousands of miles. You can also go from Yuanjiajie to Tianzishan and Yangjiajie. Traveling along the top edge of the cliff from Shandao Gou to Yuanjiajie, reaching Zhongping as the "Number One Bridge in the World". The stone bridge is only 3 meters wide, 5 meters thick, with a span of about 50 meters and a relative height of nearly 400 meters. The first bridge in the world and the Couple Rock are known as the "Zhangjiajie Twin Wonders". Tianzi Mountain was named after Xiang Dakun, the leader of the Tujia family peasant uprising in the early Ming Dynasty, who called himself "Xiang Wang Tianzi". The Tianzi Mountain is one of the four scenic spots in Wulingyuan National Scenic Spot District, bordering Suoxiyu in the east, Zhangjiajie in the south and Sangzhi County in the north. It is located at the highest point of the "Golden Triangle", with a maximum altitude of 1262.5 meters (Kunlun Peak) and a minimum altitude of 534 meters (Shilanyu).  

Jinbian Creek Jinbian Rock

Jinbianxi Scenic Area is the golden tourist area of Zhangjiajie, with a total length of 5700 meters. The stream originates from the Tudi Pass and flows from the Zhangjiajie Forest Farm to the Four Gates, winding and secluded. It moves with the mountains, passing through the peaks, valleys, and clouds, and extending in the midst of bird songs and floral fragrance. Named after the stream flowing through Jinbian Rock.

Yangjiajie Wulong Village

Wulong Village is the most dangerous destination in Yangjiazhai Scenic Area, where visitors can enter by drilling holes, walking along cliff crevices, or walking sideways on the rock path. The village is over 300 meters high and surrounded by stone walls. Only a 1000 meter long path leads to the top of the village, with multiple natural checkpoints along the way. A section of less than 1 meter is only accessible to one person. After crossing the crossroad, drill through a chaotic stone cave, forming a narrow hole on both sides of the stone mountains. It is 30 meters long and only half a meter wide, which is the road to the upper village. People cannot pass through it unless they are sideways. When approaching the top of the village, there is a stone gap less than half a meter wide between the two mountains in the southwest, which is a passage to the northeast mountain top. Beside the road is a vertical stone wall several meters high.  

Suo Yaoyan

About 50 meters from Huanglian Bay to the east of Echo Valley, there is a slender peak in the mountains and forests. The top is about 5 meters long, with a conical shape resembling a spearhead; The spearhead is slender and round like a long handle; At the junction of the round tips, there are joints like hoops, and small shrubs grow like tassels on the hoops.

Longwang Cave

Longwang Cave is located 10 meters to the south of the main road between Wulingyuan National Scenic Spot Scenic Spot, a world natural heritage site, and Cili County, which is 10 kilometers to the east and 53.8 kilometers to the south. The traffic is very convenient. It is one of the core tourist attractions in Zhangjiajie, praised by karst cave experts as "a wonderful flower of karst caves in the world". It is one of the largest and oldest karst caves in China, with high scientific research value and tourism development value. The total length of Longwang Cave is about 30 kilometers, with an average height of 50 meters and a width of 80 meters. It has 58 halls, 28 stone corridors, 15 pearl waterfalls, 3 underground rivers, 2 lakes, 45 water splashes, and is also known as the "Number One Pillar in the World" of Longwang Treasure Pillars.

Grand Canyon skywalk

Yuntiandu, formerly known as Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge, is located in Sanguansi Tujia Township, Cili County, Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province, China. It is one of the important scenic spots in Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Scenic Area.

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