Hot summer, together with the paths that are good for walking at the national parks.
The 10 best healing paths at the national parks.
What are the 10 best healing paths (The paths that are good for walking)?
As the places where the males, the females, the elderly, and the children can walk easily and escape from the heat waves in the summer even if it is only for a moment during the vacation season in the summer, they are the courses that do not have any excessiveness for you to visit together with your family. They are classified into the valley paths, the forest paths, and the seaside paths according to the special characteristics of each park.
The cool valley paths where you can walk.
① The Mt. Taebaeksan National Park | The Geomryongso-gil
검룡소길
The Geomryongso-gil, at the end of the Mt. Taebaeksan National Park, is called "a source of the Hangang River". It is a path that is comfortable to walk on to beat the summer heat while strolling among the cool and clear water with the temperature of 9℃ which flows out from the source, the rare, wild flowers, and the green blossomed forests.
Section The Geomryongso Entry ~ Geomryongso
Distance 1.5 km (One way)
Time required 1 hour (One way)
Trail inquiry The Geomryongso Branch Office (070-8892-1938) of the Mt. Taebaeksan National Park
② The Mt. Gayasan National Park | Baekwundong-gil
백운동길
As a path containing the myth of Jeonggyeonmoju, which is a myth related to the foundation of the country of Daegaya, it is a healing road where the body and the mind become healthy if you walk along the castle wall of the Mt. Gayasan fortress, assumed to be a mountain fortress of Daegaya, while befriending the old pine trees, the pine scent, the clear sound of the valley, and the sounds of the birds.
Section Baekwun-dong Center ∼ (District) Shelter
Distance 1.3km (One way)
Time required 1 hour and 30 minutes (One way)
Trail inquiry The Mt. Gayasan National Park (055-930-8000)
③ The Mt. Sobaeksan National Park | Jukgyegugok-gil
죽계구곡길
The stream that is continued from the water flowing from the Gukmangbong Peak to Choam to Baekwun-dong Chwihandae, where there is Sosu Seowon, is the Jukgyecheon Stream. Jukgyegugok Yet-gil is not a place of which the natural scenery is exceptional. It is a healing road in the Mt. Sobaeksan National Park where the ecology, the culture, and the history, with which the traces of the old, ancient sages can be found and with which the fragrant breaths of our history can be felt, are harmonized.
Section Choamjikimteo~Choamsa Temple
Distance 3.5 km (One way)
Time required 1 hour and 40 minutes (One way)
Trail inquiry Mt. Sobaeksan National Park (054-638-6196)
④ The Mt. Weolchulsan National Park | Gyeongpodaegyegok-gil
경포대계곡길
The Geumneunggyeongpodae valley path at the Mt. Weolchulsan National Park is beautiful to the extent of being selected as one of the best 100 paths at the national parks and to the extent of being selected as one of the best 100 clean valleys in Korea. As a healing road where the cool valley water flows, it is perfect as a resort in the summer season.
Section Gyeongpodae Entry∼Gyeongpodae Samgeori
Distanc 2.8km (One way)
Time require 2 hours (One way
Trail inquiry The Mt. Weolchulsan National Park (061-473-5210)
⑤ The Mt. Deokyusan National Park | Gucheondongeosa-gil
구천동어사길
The name 'Gucheon-dong' is derived from the record that it was the place where nine thousand Buddhist monks had carried out the ascetic practices. And, in the Eosa-gil section, you can meet the legends from the Scripture 15 to the Scripture 32 among the 33 scriptures of Gucheon-dong and the things to see. Especially, it is a healing road that is together with the historical space as the base for the oral folktales of Park, Mun-soo, a royal secret inspector, and the anti-Japanese activities of the army raised in the cause of justice during the Japanese colonial era.
Section Gucheon-dong Yetgil ~ Sindae Rest Area
Distance 3.3 km (One way)
Time required 3 hours (One way)
Trail inquiry The Mt. Deokyusan National Park (063-322-3174)
⑥ The Mt. Juwangsan National Park | Jeolgolgyegok-gil
절골계곡길
As a course where on can feel the fun while walking on the stepping stones placed along the flows of the cool water at the valley and while walking on Seopdari containing the old memories, the Mt. Juwangsan Jeolgolgyegok-gil is the best course for avoiding the heat by being under the shadows of the trees in the forests while soaking the feet in the water flows of the valley and for enjoying the forest bathing if you go on trekking especially in the summer season.
Section Jeolgol Branch Office∼Daemundari
Distance 3.5km(One way)
Time required 1 hour and 40 minutes (One way)
Trail inquiry The Mt. Juwangsan National Park (054-873-0019)
⑦ The Mt. Mudeungsan National Park | Yongchugyegok-gil
용추계곡길
Yongchugyegok-gil, which is a repository of the virgin forests possessing the mystery of Mt. Mudeungsan, was created because the water that flowed down from an extensive highland, which is 900 meters above sea level, of the Jangbuljae Pass had gathered. And, because the fantastic rock cliff and the tora vines cover the valley, it is a healing road where the forests that are so thick and natural to the extent of being difficult to see the sky even in the daytime add the cool shadows and winds.
Section No.2 Suweonji ∼ Yongchu Pokpo
Distance 3.2km (One way )
Time required 1 hour and 30 minutes (One way)
Trail inquiry The Mt. Mudeungsan National Park (062-227-1187)