Children's Day Family Spot: Tiger Mountain in Baoding — a Natural Oxygen Bar Where Fun Meets Learning
Tiger Mountain is located in Quyang County, Baoding, Hebei Province, on the sunny southern slope of the ancient Northern Mountain Hengshan, which gave Quyang its name. It is the only gold cultural tourism scenic area in Hebei Province and even North China. Hidden deep in the Taihang Mountains, Tiger Mountain has become increasingly known to visitors from Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei as tourism has developed.
Tiger Mountain gets its name from a huge boulder at its peak that looks like a crouching tiger ready to spring. The area features rolling hills, deep forests, and tranquil valleys, with stunning scenery hidden within the mountains—full of depth and endless beauty. The scenic area combines mountains, woods, springs, streams, waterfalls, lakes, and picturesque sights. It boasts pristine ecology, dense forests, and a vegetation coverage rate of over 90%, earning it the nickname “natural oxygen bar.”
Just inside the entrance, a high-quality waterside walking path stretches for a kilometer. Parts of the path are shaped like gold coins and ingots, making you feel as if you’re soaking up wealth with every step. Along the way, you’ll find Golden Water Spring, a swing area, the Serene Corridor, Gold-Washing Pool, and other lakes, ponds, pavilions, and terraces, plus more swing zones by the water, all evenly spaced so that the fun makes you forget you’re even walking.
Following the Golden Water Valley, you’ll come across Tiger Mountain’s Red Culture Exhibition Hall. Covering over 3,000 square meters, it displays nearly a thousand red propaganda posters and more than a thousand documents, books, and biographies in various editions. According to staff, the Red Culture Exhibition Hall was specially established in the scenic area to fully utilize Hebei’s red resources, raise the profile of Hebei’s red culture brand, and better collect, study, display, and promote red culture—reminding everyone to remember history and never forget the original mission.
In addition to the Red Culture Exhibition Hall, there is also the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Beiyue Anti-Japanese War Zone Exhibition Hall, which houses many weapons, daily necessities, and documents reflecting the heroic resistance of soldiers and civilians in the Beiyue area during the war.
Among the items collected in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Beiyue Anti-Japanese War Zone Exhibition Hall, one special weapon must be mentioned—the rusted broadswords. Even before the all-out war against Japan, the 29th Army’s “Broadsword Regiment” demonstrated great prowess at the Battle of Xifengkou on the Great Wall, using these blades to kill thousands of Japanese soldiers. After the battle, many Japanese soldiers took to wearing iron neck guards even while sleeping, so powerful was the intimidation of those broadswords.
Bringing kids to Tiger Mountain means not only enjoying the beautiful scenery but also having a blast on the amusement facilities. Here’s the Rainbow Slide, the most popular attraction among children visiting Tiger Mountain. There is a fee, but 25 yuan gets you two rides—quite a bargain.
As Children’s Day approaches, bring your kids to Tiger Mountain! While learning about history, they’ll also have loads of fun. This joy will surely become a treasured childhood memory that grows even more beautiful with time.
Travel Tips:
From Shijiazhuang: Take the G5 Beijing-Kunming Expressway (toward Beijing), then the Lai-Qu Expressway (toward Laiyuan), exit at Gubeiyue (turn right off the expressway ramp), then drive to Shimen and on to Tiger Mountain. From Baoding: Take the Baoding-Fuping Expressway, then the Lai-Qu Expressway (toward Laiyuan), exit at Gubeiyue (turn right off the ramp), then to Shimen and Tiger Mountain.
