Mangshan National Forest Park

Beijing Mangshan National Forest Park

Located on the east side of Ming Tombs Reservoir in Changping District, Mangshan is the largest national forest park in Beijing with the highest peak at 659 meters. The Mangshan mountain is named Mang (meaning python in Chinese) because it undulates like a huge python.

The park is home to 176 plant species; 96 percent of the park area is covered by forests. The most important species are evergreens such as Chinese pine, arborvitae, and lacebark pine.

Walking in the forest and listening to the sound of mountain breeze is a refreshing experience. Winter jasmine, mountain peach, Ansu apricot, forsythia, clove, flowering almond, Chinese herbaceous peony, Chinese rose, and cherry blossom blooming in succession turns the park into a vast sea of amazing shapes and colors. The fiery red foliage, from smoke tree, mono maple, typhina, to Japanese creeper, tells visitors everything about autumn's splendor.

Also, various activities take place in the Park each year, such as a trip of planting in March & April, hiking and flowers viewing in April & May, mountain fruits collecting from June to October, enjoying the red leaves of maple trees in Autumn, and mountain-climbing & fitness in Winter and New Year.