Western Scenic Area, also called the Vast Area of Taihan Mountain, is the tourist area from Dazhong Bridge at the valley entrance of Western Stream to the Middle Gate to Heaven. The tourist road has been constructed here, so if tourists take buses to go upward along the Huangxi River, they can arrive at the Middle Gate to Heaven directly. There is a small path near the road, if walking up along the stone stairs, tourists can also reach the Middle Gate to Heaven. Within the Western Scenic Area exist high and beautiful ridges and peaks rising one after another, in addition to deep valleys and long ravines, quiet pools and splashing waterfalls, luxuriant trees and grass, and vast and beautiful scenes. In Note of Beauty-Collection Pavilion written by Xu Yan in Yuan Dynasty, it says that "the most beautiful and magnificent landscape of Taishan Mountain lies only in the Western Stream". In Western Stream written by Wang Xu also in Yuan Dynasty, it says that "l love the beautiful scenes of the Western Stream, so 1 often go there with the coluds over head. All the scenes there are like paintings". Both of them wrote out the exact characteristics of the Western Stream. The main scenic spots in the Vast Area of Taishan Mountain include Tianwai Village, Longtan Reservoir, Jiandai Bridge, Xiangyou Bend, Bailong Pool, Black Dragon Pool, Mati Valley, Shuntian Bridge, Tongtian Bridge, Huangyan Ridge, etc.