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Hong Kong Trail; Wilson Trail (stages 1 and 2); Tai Tam Country Trail; Pottinger Peak Country Trail; Hong Pak Country Trail; Aberdeen Tree Walk; Tai Tam Tree Walk; Pok Fu Lam Tree Walk
Pok Fu Lam Country Park is located on Pok Fu Lam, the western end of the Southern District of Hong Kong Island. The 270-hectare park was designated in 1979. The 270-hectare park was designated in 1979.
Victoria Peak: 552: Pok Fu Lam Country Park: Hong Kong Island: Named after the British monarch Queen Victoria; also known as Mount Austin (named after the former Colonial Secretary John Gardiner Austin), and locally as The Peak. The Peak was once a volcano. 31= Kwun Yam Shan: 552: Tai Mo Shan Country Park: Central New Territories: 33: Lai Pek ...
The trail offers a wide variety of terrain — it can be steep at some parts, flat at others, with both gradual ascents and descents. The trail takes a very indirect route; termination points Victoria Peak and Big Wave Bay are less than 11 km apart. Because the trail is composed of eight sections, much shorter runs or hikes are possible.
The road starts at Victoria Gap, then goes along the south slope of Victoria Peak, then crosses High West Gap, and goes along the north slope of High West, and finally ends at the ridge of High West. Harlech Road is not open to motor vehicles except with permits and spans two country parks in Hong Kong , one Pok Fu Lam Country Park and the ...
There are a few residential apartments along before the road overpasses Po Shan Road. It then winds into the forests to the south and divides Lung Fu Shan and Pok Fu Lam Country Parks. The road ends southeast at a camping and resting ground near High West, where it intersects Lugard and Harlech roads, both leading to Victoria Peak.
High West is located within Pok Fu Lam Country Park [2] and straddles the boundary of Central and Western District and Southern District. [3] It is west of Victoria Peak, north of Pok Fu Lam and south of Lung Fu Shan. [4] Queen Mary Hospital is at its west slope. Harlech, Hatton and Lugard Roads terminate at a junction on its north slope.
The Lung Fu Shan Fitness Trail is a 2,750-metre (3,010 yd)-long trail on the Peak. Signs on the trail offer information about safe hiking. The trail starts at Pinewood Garden and proceeds through the Pinewood Battery, a few barbecue sites, a number of shelters, a flight of steps, and a stretch of steep road before arriving at the junction of ...