Driving Route:
Shenyang-Xiaoshi-Guanshui-Shuangshanzi-Tianqiaogou. The whole course is 260 kilometers.
Tiaoqiaogou, which is in the northwest of Kuandian County, Dandong, is located in the branch range of Mt. Changbaishan, with an elevation ranging from 400 to 1,200 meters and the highest peak Motianling, 1,205 meters in elevation. This park was granted to be built by National Forestry Bureau in Jan.1992, combining natural scenery and artificial scenery together, with forests being the main part. It is an ecology-oriented national forest park that mixes together grandness, danger, peculiarity, beauty and peace. The park has a total area of 60,000mu, among which forest occupies 400,000 square meters.
In the park, there are abundant resources of animals and plants: towering old trees blocking the sun, suspending springs, clear water, colorful butterflies flying and dancing, birds singing and flowers giving forth their fragrance, boars, black bears, roe deer and foxes wandering and living among the forest. Because the primitive ecology remains intact, a saying goes "There is Zhangjiajie in the south and Tianqiaogou in the north".
The place was once the central secret area of Northeast "Anti-Japanese Union" and General Yang Jingyu established in Tianqiaogou the first people's revolutionary regime in Northeast-people's government of Siping. Today, the historic stories about the Anti-Japanese Union officers and soldiers fighting against Japanese army and the puppet army are still on everyone's lips.
The caves and adobe kang (a heatable brick bed) where they once lived have been preserved and now become city-level preservation spots of cultural relics.
Tianqiaogou has developed 4 scenic areas: Xiaoyue Peak, Relics of Anti-Japanese Union, Qingtiansiyou and Gates, among which there are 47 scenic spots. Tianqiaogou is referred to as "unique scenery in east
Liaoning, the best place for tour" owing to its changeable clouds and fog, different scenery in four seasons: blooming azalea in spring, water flowing and people hearing the sound of waterfall in summer, forest turning red in autumn, ice suspending from and snow being on pines.
Tianqiao Hotel, lying among trees surrounded by mountains, has complete facilities for reception services, excellent services and workers' family guestrooms, so you will have a feeling of returning to Nature if you live in Tianqiaogou.