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Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park

Location

Yongding District, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China

Reasons to visit

Natural wonder of Tianmen Cave-Door to Heaven, Trilling Glass Skywalk, Winding Road up the Mountain with 99 Bends

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Opening Hours

  • 8:00-16:30 in peak seaon
  • 8:00-16:00 in off season

Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park, located 8 kilometers from Zhangjiajie city center, is the highest mountain in Zhangjiajie, with the main peak of 1518.6 meters (4982.3 feet) high. The natural wonder-Tianmen Cave, means door to the heaven in Chinese. The comparative plat mountain top, the well-preserved original forest, the rare plants and species, the natural bonsai in everywhere form into a splendid picture. People entitle this mountain as the most beautiful flower garden in the sky and the fairy land in the boundary of heaven.

For a long time, Mount Tianmen not only attracted attention because of its miraculous and unique geographic landform and unparalleled natural landscape, but it also became well-known for its profound cultural connotations and famous colorful humanistic site.

Tianmen Mountain Tianmen Cave
 

What to See on Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park

Tianmen Mountain Cableway

Tianmen Mountain Cable Car is the longest passenger cableway in the world with a length of 7200 meters (23,622 feet) and a height gap of 1277 meters (4,190 feet).

It is running at a speed of 6m / s, with a maximum capacity of 1000 passengers per hour, one way, and a biggest gradient of 38 degrees.

Tianmen Mountain Cable car will give you an unforgettable memory in your life. It is one of the few cable cars within China with a height gap over 1000 meters. The local gradient from the middle station to the upper station is as high as 38 degrees, which is rare in the world. It is the cableway with the largest local gradient as well as one with most brackets in China.
 

Tianmen Mountain Tianmen Cave
Tianmen Mountain Cableway in Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park
 

Tianmen Cave

Tianmen cave is the most typical attraction in Tianmen Mountain, which looks like a gate to the sky. With an altitude of 1,300 meters, Tianmen Cave is the only attraction that is not located on the top of the Tianmen Mountain. It is known as the highest natural cave crossing the mountain in the world.
 

The Winding Road Up the Mountain with 99 Bends

The winding road up the Tianmen Mountain heading to Tianmen Cave is also called Road to Heaven, which happens to have 99 bends. And 99 is a good and lucky number in China. It is a spectacular road at Tianmen Mountain.
 

Ghost-Valley Skywalk

The Ghost-valley Skywalk is the attraction that you must experience in Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park. It is named so because it is located up the Ghost-Valley Cave. The Ghost-Valley Skywalk is 1,600 meters long, whose average elevation is 1,400 meters. Walking on the Glass Skywalk fixed into the cliffs is trilling and exciting, which is a challenge to the tourists.

 
Tianmen Mountain Temple

Tianmen Mountain Temple was first built in the Tang Dynasty as a center of Buddhism in the area of western Hunan.The present Tian Men Mountain Temple is rebuilt on the basis of the original site with a plot area of more than 10,000 sqm. It adopts an official style of the Qing Dynasty and the buildings in the Temple compare well with the famous classical houses at home. The Temple is located in the mountain hollow with a broad vision. If one gazes into the southeast, all the hills seem to be so small that the Temple is really like an overlord.
 

Tianmen Mountain Academy

Tianmen Mountain Academy was built in 1303, the seventh year of the Dade Period in Yuan Dynasty. It was destroyed in a battle in 1352. The present Academy is newly built on the original site. It is a cultural holy place of Mount Tianmen.
 

“Coiled Dragon Cliff” Skywalk 
“Coiled Dragon Cliff” is the newest skywalk on Tianmen Mountain after the glass-bottom viewing platform and Plank Road. 
 
Ever since its opening on August 1st, 2016, ‘Coiled Dragon Cliff’ has been praised as ‘the oriental skywalk’. It is located on the west sightseeing route of Tianmen Mountain, 100 meters (328 feet) long, 1.6 meters (5 feet) wide, and 1430 meters (4,690 feet) high. Visitors are asked to wear shoes covers before walking on the ‘Coiled Dragon Cliff’, so as to keep the glass skywalk clean and completely transparent.  

Tianmen Mountain Tunnel Elevator
The first mountain tunnel elevator in the world, Tianmen Mountain Tunnel Elevator was officially opened to the public on April 25, 2015. The total height is 897 meters (2943 feet), with a lifting height of 340 meters (1115 feet). The one-way maximum capacity is 3600 persons per hour. Thanks for the elevator, visitors now can go from the Tianmen Cave to the top of Tianmen Mountain, and have a stunning panoramic view of the mountains.
 

Tianmen Mountain Tunnel Elevator
 

How to Get to Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park

Visitors can take Bus No. 4, No. 5 or No. 6 from the Central Bus Terminal or Zhangjiajie city center to Tianmen Mountain, and get off at the City Garden Cable Car Station. The takes less than 10 minutes. The bus fare is 1 yuan.
 
Take Bus No. 5 from the Zhangjiajie Train Station to Tianmen Mountain. Or you can just walk there. It is 5 minutes' walk.  
 
From Zhangjiajie Hehua Airport (the only airport in the city), visitors can take taxi barreling to Tianmen Mountain directly. The fare is RMB 20 – 30. Or you can take the airport shuttle bus or Bus No. 4 to get to the Central Bus Terminal first, and then transfer for another bus to Tianmen Mountain.  
 
Upon arrival, you can choose either take the Tianmen Mountain Cable Car or the shuttle bus to get to the top and Tianmen Cave. 
 
For more transport information, you can refer to page: Zhangjiajie airport & train station to Tianmen Mountain.
 

The Entrance Fee and Validity

For adults: RMB258 p.p in peak season (March to November), and RMB235 p.p in low season (from December to the end of next February), including the cable car and sightseeing shuttle bus.
 
For children below 1.3 meters (4.3 feet) tall: free of charge.
 
Note: The entrance fee does not include the small cableway on the mountain top (RMB25 p.p one way), and the tunnel elevator (RMB32 p.p one way).
 
Ticket validity: the ticket entitles you a single-time entry to Tianmen Mountain Forest Park.

 
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