Yǐn yán: Shuāng guì yī shān, gé jiāng xiāng wàng; guó jiā sēn lín, qiū lái mǎn lín. — One mountain of twin cassias, facing across the river; a national forest, and autumn fills the woods.
Shuanggui Mountain (双桂山国家森林公园) is the unrated, free national forest park on the south bank, facing Ming Mountain’s Ghost City across the Yangtze — the county’s local hill, wooded, quiet, and ticketed at zero. Where the Ghost City stages the afterlife, Shuanggui offers the living counter-programme: a forested climb, a river panorama, and the view back at the ghost hill that most visitors photograph from here rather than from it.
The two hills face each other across the water, and the county’s tourism geography has always used them as a pair: the Ghost City for the narrative, Shuanggui for the air. The forest park’s national grading (国家级森林公园) reflects the woodland itself — secondary forest on a Yangtze-side hill, cool under the canopy and loud with cicadas in summer.
The hill is the county’s morning exercise and its weekend family walk — no tickets, no coaches, just the climb and the river. The classic move is to do Shuanggui first, in the cool of the morning, then cross to the Ghost City as the day warms. From the top, the Ghost City’s roofs read clearly across the water, which is the photograph that sells both hills at once.
flowcloud would say that the county keeps its afterlife on one hill and its air on the other — and that the locals know which one they live on.
Practicalities
- Rating: unrated (national forest park status)
- Tickets: free
- Getting there: south bank of the Yangtze opposite Ming Mountain town; bridges and ferries connect (checked October 2026, subject to change)
- Time needed: 2–3 hours for the climb and the river views
- Pair with: Ming Mountain, across the water
Words and Names
双桂山 Shuāngguì Shān — the mountain of twin cassias · 国家森林公园 guójiā sēnlín gōngyuán — national forest park · 长江 Chángjiāng — the Yangtze, which the hill faces