Tickets and booking
Ghost Valley Plank Road carries no separate charge: access is included in the Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park admission ticket. That ticket runs 258 yuan in peak season (March 1 to November 30) and 225 yuan in the off season (December 1 to the end of February), and bundles the round-trip cableway plus the park eco-bus. The summit forest sightseeing cable car is the one exclusion — it is not covered and is paid separately. The pack lists no online booking channels; the published contact lines are 0744-8366666 and 0744-8369999. Since the only described access to the plank road runs through the ticketed cableway, sorting your park ticket before you go is the reliable move.
Entrance and routes
There is no dedicated gate for the plank road. The described route: city buses 4, 6 or 10 in Zhangjiajie to the Tianmen Mountain cableway lower station, the cableway up to the upper station, then onward to Ghost Valley Plank Road. The site sits inside Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Yongding District, Zhangjiajie, Hunan; its registered address anchors it beside the park’s Yefo Hidden Treasure (Yefo Cangbao) point. In practice, entry is controlled at the cableway lower station by the park ticket.
Photo spots
The pack publishes no named viewpoints, platforms, heights or photo points for this section, so treat the plank walkway itself as the subject. Two grounded anchors: the registered address ties the road to the park’s Yefo Hidden Treasure node, and the included cableway ascent from the city to the upper station precedes the walk. For light, published hours run to 18:00 in the March-November season and 17:30 in winter. Anything beyond that — specific angles or platforms — is not in the data and should be confirmed on site.
Timing and crowds
Hours are 06:30-18:00 daily from March 1 to November 30 and 08:00-17:30 daily from December 1 to the end of February — winter opens 90 minutes later and closes 30 minutes earlier. The pack contains no crowd, queue or visitor-volume data, so no traffic patterns can be stated. The practical default is to start at opening, which leaves the full suggested 1-3 hours for the plank road plus slack for the cableway and the rest of the summit circuit. The park lines (0744-8366666, 0744-8369999) are the listed channel for checking hours or any same-day changes.
Walking and effort
The park’s own suggested duration is 1-3 hours. Beyond that, the pack publishes no trail length, elevation or gradient figures, so difficulty cannot be quantified from the data. What the route facts do establish: the cableway does the climbing, dropping you at the upper station from which the plank road is reached, so the on-foot portion is the summit-level walk itself rather than an ascent from the valley. For current path conditions, the listed numbers are 0744-8366666 and 0744-8369999.
Getting there
City buses 4, 6 and 10 in Zhangjiajie all serve the Tianmen Mountain cableway lower station; fares are not listed in the pack. The cableway then runs to the upper station, the access point for Ghost Valley Plank Road, and the round trip is included in the park ticket along with the eco-bus. The summit forest sightseeing cable car is the only mountain ride the ticket does not cover; its price is not published in the pack.
Cost breakdown
Published costs, in full: park admission of 258 yuan in peak season (March 1 to November 30) or 225 yuan in the off season (December 1 to the end of February) — one ticket covering entry, the round-trip cableway and the eco-bus, with Ghost Valley Plank Road requiring nothing extra. Excluded: the summit forest sightseeing cable car, priced separately at an amount the pack does not list. Also unpriced in the data: fares for city bus routes 4, 6 and 10. Confirm any figure by phone at 0744-8366666 or 0744-8369999.
