Where is the Grassland Sky Road in Zhangjiakou?

The Grassland Sky Road, located at the junction of Zhangbei County and Chongli County in Zhangjiakou City, starts from the Wild Fox Ridge (near the Wild Fox Ridge Fortress) on the south side of Zhangbei County in the west, and goes to Birch Skin Ridge in Chongli County in the east, which is an important passage connecting Chongli Skiing Area, Chicheng Hot Springs Area, and the Grassland Scenic Area of Zhangbei, and is one of the top ten most beautiful highways on the Chinese mainland. The Grassland Sky Road is also surrounded by tourist attractions such as Birch Peeling, Wild Fox Ridge and the Ancient Great Wall.

The 132.7-kilometer-long Grassland Sky Road was opened to traffic at the end of September 2012 after Zhangjiakou Zhangbei County invested 320 million yuan in it at the end of 2011. Along the highway meandering, rivers and mountains, deep ravines, meadows, cattle and sheep, the landscape is strange and steep, showing a picture of a hundred miles of Damtou landscape scrolls, distribution of the ancient Great Wall ruins, Birch Peeling, Wild Fox Ridge, Zhangbei Grassland, and other numerous humanities, ecological and geological tourism resources.

From April 30, 2016, the 132-kilometer completed section of the "Grassland Sky Road" entered the era of charging. The ticket price is 50 yuan per person.

From May 23, 2016, Zhangbei County government decided to cancel the "Grassland Sky Road" scenic area charges.

Basic Information

Chinese Name

Grassland Sky Route

Foreign Name

Sky route of China

Suitable Season

Mid-June to mid-October every year

Country

China

Location

Geographic Location

The "Grassland Sky Route" Scenic Spot is located in Hebei Province.

Junction of Zhangbei County and Chongli County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province

Admission Price

Free from May 23, 2016

Climate Type

Moderate Temperate Continental Monsoon Climate

Opening Time

Summer and Autumn are suitable

Famous Scenic Spots

Birch Skin Range, Wild Fox Range Zhangbei Grassland, etc.

City

Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province

Catalog

1 Features

2 Main Attractions

3 Transportation Information

4 Visitor's Information

5 Tickets Event

Folding Edit Section Features

The Grassland Sky Road. The total length of 132.7 kilometers, like a dragon, coiled on the top of the mountains and peaks, winding, ups and downs, stretching more than 100 kilometers. Blue sky and its connection, white clouds and echo, walking in the sky above the road, like walking in the clouds, so named "sky road". Here is the edge of Xilingol prairie, the average altitude of 1400 meters, the average annual temperature is only 4 degrees Celsius, known as "the world's thirteen provinces, cold, but birch skin ridge" said. Windy, sunshine, no obvious summer become the most significant climate characteristics.

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The grassland sky road along the distribution of the ancient Great Wall ruins, Soviet and Mongolian Allied Forces Martyrs' Mausoleum, Birch Peel Ridge, rocky slice of the mountain, the big Ohmu stone pillar group and a large number of humanities, ecological and geological tourism resources.

The car driving in the winding grassland sky road, despite many curves, uphill and downhill, but the road is not a lot of vehicles, the road is very smooth.

While the sky grassland road is just a tarmac highway on Zhangbei Dam, but the elevation is also about a thousand meters, dark tarmac and yellow solid line itself is a beautiful landscape. Hundreds of miles, left and right wandering twists and turns, dramatic ups and downs, quiet and far-reaching, as if leading to the other side of the dream.

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Summer Birchbark Ridge, emerald wildflowers all over the mountain, fall Birchbark Ridge, layers of forests in autumn.

Birchbark Ridge Natural Scenic Area is located in Zhangbei County Battle Sea Township, as the saying goes, "the world's thirteen provinces, cold, but Birchbark Ridge", the average annual temperature is only 4 ℃ of the Birchbark Ridge, located at an altitude of 2,128 meters above sea level in the main peak of the Damtou, because of the mountain there are thousands of acres of birch forests and so named. The back slope of the original birch is lush and green, and all kinds of mountain flowers and wild grasses are more than one meter high. Summer mountain flowers, blue sky like a wash; autumn, the mountains colorful, beautiful.

Baipiling has a pleasant climate. Here the average annual temperature -1 ℃, the highest temperature of 24 ℃, 15.8 ℃ in July, where the air oxygen content of 27%, containing high negative oxygen ions, known as "natural oxygen bar", is the ideal summer resort.

Winter birch ridge is more magnificent, where the snowfall period can reach more than 120 days, the annual snowfall reached 700 millimeters, for skiing, ice skating and extend the tourist season provides a natural and cheap conditions." Mountain dance silver snake, the original wax elephant" is the most graphic metaphor, can be in the forest to feel the "thousands of miles of ice, ten thousand miles of snow drift" spectacular scene.

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About 15 kilometers from the entrance to Huapiling, there is a high point on the roadside --- Yama Katayama, standing abruptly in the grass along the side of the sky road in the gentle rounded hills.

Travelers mostly stop or camp here to enjoy the rocky wonders. The mountain is not very high, but it takes a lot of hands and feet to climb to the top, and from a distance, it looks like several groups of stone castles made by ancient giants to watch over each other.

Yan Piece Mountain is located at the southern end of Dahuolu Town, through which the 100-mile Batou Scenic Route passes, and is the midpoint station between Chongli and Zhangbei. The village is surrounded by mountains, a beautiful environment, strong natural environmental protection, high content of negative oxygen ions, is a veritable "paradise oxygen bar". In addition, its original village appearance, simple and rich folk customs, and the beautiful and magnificent Yan piece of mountain scenic area to form a unique geographical environment, for the development of rural tourism has laid a good foundation.

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Terraces are one of the rare scenery in the north, if it is not the grassland sky road, I do not know how much farther you have to run in order to see such a beautiful scene. The summer color is still only a single emerald green, but you can still see the distinct layers.

Autumn Sebei terraces the most interesting, in addition to the colorful, criss-crossing lines, and that after the harvest into stacks, piles, rows of yardage of a variety of crops.

Sebei Terraces, is a place with a story, the scenery here as the people here, real and untouched. Layer upon layer of terraces, quietly lying in the embrace of nature, breathing the purest air; bathing in the brightest sunshine; enjoying the atmosphere of the world.

This is something you will find elsewhere!