What are the attractions along the self-driving route around Danjiangkou Reservoir?

A very suitable place for self-driving tours. It is located in Danjiangkou City, Shiyan. It was selected as the most beautiful self-driving road in a geological magazine. It has several loop lines. Do you know how to drive around it? Today I will share its self-driving secrets with everyone. 1. Introduction to the most beautiful road around the Danjiangkou Reservoir

The road around the Danjiangkou Reservoir is known as the most beautiful landscape road, and it is evaluated as "comparable to the Road to Paradise in Norway".

Basic highway information:

Located in Shiyan City, Hubei Province, the total length of the highway is 429.1 kilometers. In the entire section, there are 76.4 kilometers of first-class highways and 352.7 kilometers of second-class highways.

The highway passes through Danjiangkou City, Xunyang District of Shiyan City, and 17 towns in Xunxi County, forming a loop line.

Highway features:

The highway has now become a stunningly beautiful landscape avenue, with lakes and mountains as its main features. The mountain scenery is connected in series.

Danjiangkou Ring-Reservoir Highway

Driving on the road, you can see the clear Danjiangkou Reservoir on one side of the road, and the islands around it are also deep and colorful, and you can see them along the way. Three seasons of flowers and colors. There is green space all year round, and the scenery along the way is pleasing to the eye.

Tizigou Bridge

There are service areas, parking areas, viewing platforms, walking trails and other basic measures along the way. It also has a temporary parking area and a viewing platform in an area near the river and lake with a wide view.

Bicycle lanes are also set up at fixed locations along the way, and bicycle rental stations are set up at major nodes so that everyone can ride across them.

There are many scenic spots along the highway. The scenic spots that can be visited include Wudang Mountain, Danjiangkou Dam, Thousand Island Gallery, Taiji Gorge, Longshan Pagoda, Junzhou Ancient Town, Qinglongshan Dinosaur Egg Fossil Group, Cow River Forest Park, Canglang Mountain, Longtan River, etc.

Tour along the Huanku Highway, where you can enjoy a lot of cultural heritage, historical sites, folk landscapes, etc. 2. Detailed route of the Huanku Highway

The Danjiangkou Huanku Highway consists of 16 sections, in order:

Complete and detailed route map of the Huanku Highway

This map It can be used as a reference for everyone’s self-driving tour. As shown below: Introduction to scenic spots along the way

Danjiangkou City

Danjiangkou is known as the "Water City of China" in China. It is also a famous citrus growing area with large citrus production. It is a citrus-producing area, a major Wudang tea-producing area and a major aquatic product city in Hubei Province.

Danjiangkou is also well-known for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, which directly delivers clean water to Beijing.

Danjiangkou Dam

So this dam is directly used as a landmark building on the middle line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.

The reservoir is a super-large artificial lake located in the middle and upper reaches of the Han River.

The entrance to the south line of Danjiangkou Huanku Highway is near Canglanghai Town.

This is the place mentioned in the Canglanghai tourist town in Qu Yuan's poem.

Niuhe Forest Park

The Forest Park is located 15 kilometers upstream of the Danjiang Dam. The park scenery includes forest animal and plant landscapes, landform landscapes, hydrological landscapes, cultural landscapes, Integrating the scenery of mountains, rivers and islands.

Woniushan Forest Park consists of three major scenic spots, namely the Military Temple, Yu'an Valley and Woniushan.

Woniu Mountain is located at the intersection of the West Qinling Mountains and the Minshan Mountains, and has rich vegetation.

Thousand Island Gallery Scenic Area

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Located in Wugumiao Village, Niuhe Forest Park

Thousand Island Gallery is located in Niuhe, Danjiangkou Reservoir Area An ecological tourist attraction in a provincial forest park.

The clear water is rippling and the scenery is picturesque

The village is interspersed with mountains and lakes, and many lakes blend together.

The reservoir is used to store water, and the water level rises. Many irregular islands gradually formed within it. The water is dotted with small islands.

The scenic spot takes the scenery of mountains and rivers as the main feature of the mountain scenery.

The scenic peaks are surrounded by mountains. The landscape scenery is the ultimate.

Longtan River Tourist Area is decorated with ancient natural mountains, rocks, rocks, ditches, caves, trees, vines, flowers, grass, fruits, bamboos, as well as ancient buildings with cultural landscapes. The natural landscape is beautiful. , the scenic spots have distinctive features.

Taiji Gorge Scenic Area

Taiji Gorge ticket: original price 85 yuan/person

Taiji Gorge Glass Bridge: original price 30 yuan/person

The structure of the Bubu Jingxin Glass Bridge is a suspension bridge, with a total length of about 150 meters and a bridge width of 1.2 meters

Danjiang Taiji Gorge Scenic Area is located in Shigu Town, Danjiangkou City, about 38 kilometers away from Danjiangkou City and located on the Han River North Shore.

This scenic spot is the only Danxia Geopark in Hubei Province and belongs to the largest Danxia landform area north of the Yangtze River.

The most amazing and beautiful scenery in the Taiji Gorge Scenic Area is the natural "Tai Chi Picture" surrounded by the two mountains of Qinglong Mountain and Huanglong Mountain. It can be called a rare spectacle in the world.

Junzhou Ancient City

This ancient city can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago. Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty used this place to build a beautiful Junzhou City on the banks of the Han River in the style of the Forbidden City.

The ancient Junzhou City is actually a brick city wall with a circumference of more than 3.60 kilometers.

There was no city in the ancient "Three Miao" era. An earth city was built in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, and a brick city was officially built in the early Ming Dynasty.

Looking back on history, Junju is a beautiful and rich place with the Han River passing around the city.

After the Danjiangkou reservoir was built, the original ancient town of Junzhou was completely submerged under the water, and the current ancient town was restored in antique style.

Wudang Mountain Scenic Area

5A scenic spot, with majestic mountains, facing the Danjiangkou Reservoir

A famous Taoist resort, Wudang Mountain has unique mountains.

Yunyang District has an extremely rich cultural heritage and history. Rich and diverse skull fossils of "Yunxian people" that are called "national treasures" have been unearthed here. It was there that dinosaur bone fossils with great archaeological value occurred. A group of dinosaur egg fossils was discovered in the Qinglong Mountain area of ??Liupi Town in 1995.

Qinglongshan Dinosaur Egg Fossil Group Geopark

It is the only nature reserve named after paleontological fossils among China’s national geological heritage parks. It is known as one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation. The cradle of culture is the prestigious home of dinosaurs.