Where to Cycle in Zhongshan

There are many great places to cycle in Zhongshan. On a sunny day, you can go cycling with your family and friends! Let’s take a look at some recommended cycling routes in Zhongshan. See below for details.

1. Xiangxiang Xiaolang Huan Greenway

A Paradise for Cycling Enthusiasts

Xiaolang Huan Greenway is a fitness and leisure greenway. It features a comprehensive fitness park and a professional cycling track, making it a gathering spot for serious cyclists. This greenway is suitable for those who love adventure, climbing and fitness. Go cycling with your friends on the weekend!

Cycling along the Xiangxiang Greenway, you can enjoy many attractions and historical sites. Go to Zhongshan Hot Springs Park to soak in the hot springs and enjoy the food. Visit Quanlin Mountain Villa for leisure, and enjoy the Classical Furniture Corridor, featuring European-style Ming and Qing furniture, and the ancient crane village… Experience the unique culture and natural charm of Xiangxiang.

❤ Cycling Tips

Bike Rental: The park provides bicycle rental services.

Things to do: Xiangxiang’s abundance of foreign trade shops is very popular. You can take your time and have a good browse if you have time.

Specialty Food: You must try Xiangxiang tea cakes, while rice noodles are the signature dish of Xiangxiang cuisine.

2. Minzhong Water Town Greenway

The Most Primitive Greenway

The Minzhong Water Town section of the Greenway starts from Hongqi Li Bridge and runs through 8 villages: Shazi Village, Xinping Village, Xinping Four Village, Xinjian Village, Yicang Village, Yu’an Village, Qunan Village, and Yanjiang Village.

It passes by tourist attractions such as Shatian Mingzhu, Mingcai Fruit Garden, Yu’an Home, and several fruit farms, ending at the Hengmen Waterway embankment. It is 27.5 kilometers long, making it the longest and most water town-themed greenway route in the city. The greenway runs through tens of thousands of acres of Shatian Water Town scenery, passing by numerous rivers, fruit forests, vegetable gardens, fish ponds, farmland, and embankments, showcasing the unique charm of the water town.

Men casting nets in the water, women plucking ducks and washing clothes by the river, children playing naked in the water, and stilt houses built along the water, all exude a thick and unyielding water town charm… This place is the perfect combination of the unique natural ecology and human ecology of the Pearl River Delta region.

Minzhong Water Town is famous for its fruits, with over 30 varieties of fruits such as bananas, lychees, longans, and mangoes that are fragrant year-round. Picking fruits has become one of the most beloved leisure activities for tourists who come to the water town.

❤ Cycling Tips

Bike Rental: Various bicycles are available for rent at each station.

Route Attractions: Yu’an Home, Mingcai Fruit Garden, Shatian Mingzhu.

Specialty Food: It is best known for its “Three Treasures of the Water Town,” Seafood Banana Bud Soup, and Banana Braised Pork.

3. Wugui Mountain Greenway

A Greenway That Passes Through a Small Mountain Village

This greenway, after traveling along Chenggui Highway for a while, turns into Zhongshan’s Vocational Education Park and then enters the Wugui Mountain Scenic Area.

From the foot of Wugui Mountain, a newly opened greenway runs along the mountain, all the way to Heping Village in the mountains. You can enjoy bamboo forests and ponds along the way, instantly escaping the hustle and bustle of the city. After about two kilometers of mountain greenway, you will arrive at Heping Village, a small village nestled in the mountains. The quaint village houses are like a paradise.

❤ Cycling Tips

Route Attractions: Xianzong Long Garden, Zhongshan’s Vocational Education Park, Heping Village

4. Boai Road Greenway

A Natural and Eco-friendly Leisure Spot

Zhongshan Greenway Zimaling Demonstration Section, starting from the intersection of Boai Road and Changjiang Road, extends westward along the north side of Boai Road in a belt shape, connecting Zimaling Park and the Zimaling South Gate Fitness Square. It is 1.4 kilometers long, with a total of 3.1 hectares of newly added green space.

Cycling along the Boai Road Greenway, you will be greeted with changing scenery. On the green belt of Xia’ao Creek Village beside Boai Road, small but complete, a small lake, lawn, pavilions, corridors and other elements are delicately arranged, forming a natural and eco-friendly leisure place with an elegant layout of mountain scenery and water.

❤ Cycling Tips

Route Attractions: Zimaling Park, Famous Tree Garden, Sun Yat-sen Park.

5. Nanlang Cuiheng Greenway

The Greenway with the Most Cultural Landscape

It starts at the Zhongshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery and ends at the Nanlang Red Mangrove Yikou Wetland Park, with a total length of about 5.9 kilometers.

The Cuiheng Village section has the most cultural landscape of all the greenway stations in Zhongshan. Attractions such as the Zhongshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery, the Sun Yat-sen Residence Memorial Hall, and the Zhongshan Film and Television City are well-known. In addition to the rich cultural landscape, the mangrove scenery here is also worth mentioning. After passing Yikou Village, you will reach the seaside, and what you see before you are mangroves, with seabirds occasionally flying out of the forest.

❤ Cycling Tips

Bike Rental: There are no bicycle rentals at the stations here, so pay attention!

Route Attractions: Zhongshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery, Sun Yat-sen Residence Memorial Hall, Zhongshan City, Red Mangrove Wetland Park.

Specialty Food: Yikou Wonton, Yikou Seafood

6. Jinzhong Reservoir Greenway

The Most Beautiful Greenway

The Jinzhong Reservoir Greenway is 11.6 kilometers long.

Large stretches of reeds, green lakes, soaring waterbirds, pine and bamboo forests covering the mountains, and the sweet scent of Lingnan fresh fruits will leave you lingering. The Jinzhong Greenway is undoubtedly the most beautiful greenway in Zhongshan. Here, there are no crowds or traffic jams from the city. Clean and refreshing greenways, bring your friends and loved ones for a cycling tour! Romantic, romantic.

The Jinzhong Reservoir Greenway is crowded, and the terrain and routes are relatively complex, requiring a high level of experience and adaptability for cycling enthusiasts. You may want to go and “conquer” this route!

❤ Cycling Tips

Bike Rental: There are many rental shops at the entrance and exit of Jinzhong Reservoir, but because the Jinzhong Reservoir Greenway has steep slopes and is hilly, it is recommended to choose mountain bikes with gears.

Specialty Food: The farmhouse cuisine here is authentic, and the freshly prepared reservoir fish is very popular.