Where to Go for a Self-Driving Day Trip Around Qingdao

Are there any good places for self-driving tours around Qingdao? Here’s a detailed introduction to the places you can go, all within easy reach of the city. You can take advantage of your vacation time to visit them. We recommend visiting the Qingdao Grape Grand View Garden, Jiuding Manor, Jimo Rose Town, and other attractions. For more recommendations, please see the text below.

1、Qingdao Grape Grand View Garden

Located in Dazeshan Town, Pingdu City, the beautiful “Chinese Grape Hometown”, the Qingdao Grape Grand View Garden is surrounded by mountains and water, with beautiful scenery. It is both a sightseeing garden and an industrial park, covering an area of about 200 mu. There are more than 200 grape varieties in the garden, making it an ecological cultural place that integrates grape research, science popularization, ecological sightseeing, research and study tours, and leisure and entertainment. There are many grape varieties, including Golden Finger, Giant Rose, Oriental Star, Moldova, Qingbiyu, Red Agate, Golden Amber, Purple Crystal, and so on.

After satisfying your taste buds, you can also climb Mount Zhileshan, exercise while eating delicious grapes at the top of Zhileshan, and overlook the grape vineyard and the beautiful scenery of Dazeshan. You can also enjoy the fun of fishing while admiring and photographing the wild ducks and water birds in Ziyang Lake. Here, you can also admire beautiful swans in winter, experiencing the unique charm of Dazeshan all year round.

Address: Qingdao Grape Grand View Garden, Dazeshan Town, Pingdu City

2、Jiuding Manor

On Jiuding Mountain in Yuanshang Town, Laixi City, as far as the eye can see, there is a scene of harvest. Up close, you can see the plump, lustrous grapes shining brightly in the sun. From afar, you can see the endless expanse of thousands of mu of vineyards, and in this beautiful scenery, Jiuding Manor Winery adds a touch of unique charm to this autumnal landscape. The winery, with a total investment of 100 million euros, has allowed grape seedlings selected from France to take root and grow on Jiuding Mountain in Laixi, producing fine wines. This has also allowed Qingdao’s locally produced wines to gradually take to the international stage.

The manor covers an area of 15 mu, with a construction area of 12,000 square meters. It was designed by American designer Zheng Kenai. The building was built using local materials, entirely made of locally produced limestone, combining traditional Mediterranean style with neo-classical features. The winery’s Ceana-style tower and Cabal stone wall feature the typical design characteristics of Tuscany. The manor as a whole is a five-story multi-functional building, including a reception hall, boutique, banquet hall, chapel, corridor bar, tasting room, and history corridor.

Address: Jiuding Manor, Shankou Mountain, Yuanshang Town, Laixi, Qingdao, Navigate to “Jiuding Manor”

Tel: 0532-86406767 (Please make an appointment in advance for sightseeing and dining)

3、Jimo Rose Town

Rose Town is located in Xijiang Village, Jimo District. Currently, the park has over 1,000 varieties of roses from all over the world, mainly divided into edible and ornamental categories. The park integrates rose planting, rare rose varieties, rose product development, tourism, health and leisure, vacation living, and scientific research education, aiming to create a rose-themed love tourism destination, wedding photography base, film and television base, and build a tourist resort that combines urban and rural, rural and urban, where people can enjoy year-round sightseeing and leisure activities.

In addition to thousands of mu of roses, Rose Town also features a kilometer-long underground cultural corridor, a rose-themed cultural restaurant, a rose physiotherapy and health care area, a rose product experience area, an outdoor development area, a children’s playground, a fossil museum, a large-scale indoor four-season dry snow sports field, and a large-scale animal and plant Chinese medicine specimen museum, providing comprehensive supporting facilities.

Address: North of S209 Provincial Highway, 4 kilometers east, Lingshan Town, Jimo, Qingdao

Tel: 0532-66656666

4、Wenwang Mountain Urban Forest Park

Wenwang Mountain Urban Forest Park is located in the Wenwang Mountain and Wuwang Mountain areas of Liyuan Street Office, Pingdu City, covering an area of over 2,000 mu. It is only 3 kilometers from the center of Pingdu City, with convenient transportation. Pingdu City bus route 10 passes by the entrance of Wenwang Mountain Urban Forest Park. It is about 4 kilometers from the highway exit and about 6 kilometers from Pingdu Railway Station.

Local people have a tradition of worshiping Wenwang on the sixteenth day of the third lunar month, praying for success in the imperial examinations. To this day, the sixteenth day of the third lunar month has become the temple fair of Wenwang Mountain. Every year on the sixteenth day of the third lunar month, people from nearby villages and towns spontaneously come to Wenwang Mountain to burn incense and worship Wenwang, praying for a year of abundant harvests, family harmony and happiness, and excellent academic performance for their children and grandchildren. Today, the Wenwang Mountain Forest Farm has become lush with trees, strange flowers and grasses, birds singing and flowers fragrant, ecological balance, and beautiful scenery, gradually realizing the functions of sightseeing, health preservation, leisure, fitness, and forming a true natural oxygen bar.

Address: Wenwang Mountain Scenery, No. 167, Changping Road, Pingdu City

5、February 2nd Ecological Farm

Qingdao February 2nd Ecological Farm is located in Wanggezhuang Street, Laoshan District, with beautiful scenery, a pleasant environment, and convenient transportation (5 kilometers north of the Yangkou Tunnel exit on Binhai Avenue). The farm covers an area of over 100 mu, surrounded by abundant tourist resources, with mountains embracing water and pleasant scenery. It is a must-visit destination for tourists to Yangkou, Laoshan.

Adhering to the business philosophy of green ecology and natural purity, February 2nd Ecological Farm has strived to create agricultural specialty products such as Laoshan February 2nd Big Steamed Buns, Original Wheat Flour, Free-Range Chickens, and Freshwater Aquaculture, and has vigorously developed tourism, catering, sightseeing, experience, science education, and festival projects, aiming to create an ideal destination for leisure tours in the suburbs of Qingdao, purchasing specialty agricultural products, science education for primary and secondary school students, and rural experiences.

Address: Wanggezhuang Street, Laoshan District, Qingdao, Navigate to “February 2nd Farm”

Tel: 0532-88978808

6、Qingdao Rural Park

Qingdao Rural Park is located in Dongwangjiazhuang Village, Yanghe Town, Jiaozhou. On the ruins of a former mine, Qingdao Rural Park invested 20 million yuan, hired the world’s second-ranked Royal Institute of British Architects to plan and design the park, and also introduced the most advanced garden management equipment at a high starting point, using the Internet of Things intelligent technology to carry out precise irrigation, fertilization, pest control and other field management for fruit trees, building a high-efficiency agricultural demonstration park.

Currently, the park has over 500,000 fruit trees and tea plants, including American cherries, Japanese and Canadian big cherries, almonds, golden apricots, Zhongshan Park water peaches, Korean golden water pears, white tea, oolong tea, Australian blueberries, and other varieties, with more than 40 varieties. Most varieties have won the National Ministry of Agriculture’s Excellent Fruit Tree and High-Quality Variety Awards. The park also has a children’s entertainment area, a pet interaction area, a riverside fishing area, a “muddy fishing” area, and other facilities.

Address: Qingdao Rural Park, Aishan Stone Scenic Area, Yanghe Town, Jiaozhou City

7、Taohua Garden Horticultural Center

Taohua Garden Horticultural Center is located at No. 777, Maojiashan Road, West Coast New Area, Qingdao, covering an area of 20,000 square meters. It is a one-stop flower and horticulture experience service platform that integrates flower shopping, horticultural experience, and garden services. The large-scale modern fully glazed greenhouse covers an area of over 5,000 square meters. The bright sunlight shines through the glass, and as far as the eye can see, there are flowers, plants, and trees. Every day of the year, there is a different view, full of flowers and flowers, fresh and fragrant, and the air is filled with the scent of flowers.

It brings together high-quality resources from all over the world, including famous, excellent, rare, and special brand plants from both China and abroad, garden plants, tropical greenery, succulents, horticultural tools, garden decorations, pond water features, outdoor furniture, and so on. It not only provides high-quality garden products and horticultural concepts for enthusiasts, but also provides a comprehensive venue for citizens to engage in leisure and entertainment, parent-child interaction, and family outings.

Address: Taohua Garden, No. 777, Maojiashan Road, West Coast New Area, Qingdao

Tel: 0532-83177005 / 83177006

8、Qingdao Lvcun Agricultural Sightseeing Park

Qingdao Lvcun Agricultural Sightseeing Park is located in Nanwangtuan Village, Jiaolai, Jiaozhou. It is a modern agricultural tourism park that integrates viewing, picking, touring, and dining. It has built three domestic high-configuration interconnected greenhouses. Inside the desert landscape area, cacti of various shapes and sizes are thriving, with over 100 varieties of succulents vying for attention; in the tropical plant area, bananas, dragon fruit, four-season lemons, passion fruit, and other tropical plants are lush and green, creating a tropical atmosphere; in the flower cultivation area, over 100 varieties of flowers, such as crabapple, evergreen osmanthus, mountain rose, phalaenopsis, and verbena, create a visual feast.

Address: Nanwangtuan Village, Jiaolai Street, Jiaozhou City

Self-driving navigation to “Qingdao Lvcun Modern Agricultural Demonstration Park”

Tel: 0532-88213999

9、Qingdao De Rui Equestrian Club

Qingdao De Rui Equestrian Club is committed to promoting and developing equestrian sports, integrating equestrian training, competitions, and breeding. It has an international standard indoor and outdoor equestrian training field, stables, and a simple and elegant member reception hall; it has professional equestrian coaches, such as gold medal coaches Srib, Wang Zhanzhan, who have studied at the Black Knight School in France; it has high-bred, professionally trained imported riding horses (Thoroughbreds, Akhal-Teke, Warmbloods, Arabians, Ponies, etc.). It currently has two branches, located in the Qingdao Bio-High-Tech Industrial Park Development Service Center in Duanpo Lan Town, Jimo District, and the Nanluwan Ecological Park in Shangma Street, Chengyang District.

Address: Qingdao Bio-High-Tech Industrial Park Development Service Center (Jimo Branch)

Nanluwan Ecological Park, Shangma Street, Chengyang District (Chengyang Branch)

Tel: 87561911

10、Qingdao Shuanglongquan Family Farm

Qingdao Shuanglongquan Family Farm is located in Xiaoyuan Village, the Economic Development Zone of Laixi City. The farm was established in 2014 and covers an area of over 500 mu. The farm mainly grows apples, pears, mulberries, peaches, Chinese cabbage, radishes, and other field fruits and vegetables. It also has greenhouses for grapes, strawberries, mulberries, early-ripening peaches, Taiwan long-fruited mulberries, and other fruits for tourists to pick at different times of the year.

At the farm, you can relax and pick fruit, cast a fishing rod and wait for the fish to bite; you can get close to cute pets and dance with koi; you can taste authentic farmhouse food and experience agricultural culture. Based on the unique geographical location of Xiaoyuan Village, the farm has built the “Good Eighth Company” Memorial Hall based on the birthplace of the “Good Eighth Company” on Nanjing Road and the site of the first Party Congress of Laiyang County, a red history. It has been built into a red education base in Qingdao, inheriting and carrying forward the red historical culture.

Address: Xiaoyuan Village, Economic Development Zone, Laixi City