Urban Forest Discovery Route

Guangyanggu Urban Forest Park

Highlights: A multi-layered ecosystem featuring 3,798 trees and shrubs across 79 species, alongside 32 types of ground cover plants spanning 20,000 square meters.

Recommended Activity: Take the kids on a fun hunt for the "Plant ID Cards" scattered throughout the park. Scan the QR codes to listen to each plant's "self-introduction".

Xinjiekou Urban Forest

Highlights: Native elm and locust trees have been preserved, while shade-tolerant plants have been added, creating a natural "canopy-shrubs-ground cover" structure.

Recommended Activity: In summer, look for beetles and butterfly larvae feasting on leaves, or observe sow bugs and snails migrating after the rain.

Wetland Birdwatching Route

Xihai Wetland

Highlights: A thriving "underwater forest" ecosystem consisting of aquatic plants like lotuses, water lilies, reeds, and cattails.

Birdwatching Guide: From the observation deck, you may spot birds like little grebes, mallards, marsh tits, night herons, Indian cuckoos, Beijing swifts, or Eurasian blackbirds.

Tanxi Scenic Area

Highlights: Once a neglected pond, it is now revitalized with water lilies, lotuses, and yellow irises.

Eco-trail: A riverbed forest, made of stones, logs, and plant roots, serves as a habitat for small fish and frogs.

Central-Axis Greenery and Culture Route

Yongdingmen Park — Jingshan Park — Bell and Drum Towers

Trace the Ancient Trees: Yongdingmen Park boasts a 500-year-old Ming Dynasty pagoda tree, a silent witness to the city's transformation. From the Wanchun Pavilion atop Jingshan Hill, you can have a panoramic view of the Central Axis' greenbelt. The Hutongs near the Bell and Drum Towers are shaded by locust and jujube trees, their branches casting cool shade over the grey-tiled walls in summer, evoking the charm of old Beijing.

Rendinghu Park

Recommended Activity: As Beijing's first "Nature Sketch Themed Station", the park displays over 1,000 award-winning works by primary and middle school students, including plant anatomy diagrams, insect observation journals, and ecology-themed artworks.