West Tianmu Ancient Tree Loop

The recording begins at the 游客换乘站, the stop inside the south-gate complex where the scenic area's own shuttle sets people down, 16.8 m from the first position and 56 m in a straight line from the ticket office. It is 317 m up the hillside and the last point on this circuit that is flat. The 检票处 is 431 m along, 2.5 m off the path, and it is the hinge of the whole page: past it is a ticketed area whose price no official source publishes, before it car parks, a police station and the 文旅专线 stop whose only listed line is marked suspended. Three bus stops serve this place within 85 m, and the last-mile service among them, 2819B, returns no operating window at all.

The lane climbs gently past 禅源寺 at 857 m, whose buildings sit on the walking line rather than beside it: a pavilion named for a Zhou Enlai speech at 883 m, the 弥陀殿 at 1,218 m, and 鼓楼, 观音殿, 净手池 and 钟楼地藏殿 all within 25 m of the path between 1,357 m and 1,391 m. This crowded third of the circuit is paved, shaded and signed, and gains only about 180 m over two kilometres. At 2,418 m a walker's note reads 一直跟着小河走, follow the little stream all the way, and from there the surface changes and the climbing starts in earnest. Toilets at 630 m are the last certain ones for three kilometres.

This is the section that explains what the walk is named after. The great trees of this valley are numbered rather than named, and the numbering is the signposting: 四大王(柳杉) stands 21 m off the path at 3,262 m, a walker's 三里亭 label sits 166 m before it, and 五里亭(如斯亭) and 二大王(柳杉) share a spot at 3,574 m, where the map also carries a 导游图 board, a shop that one record flags for selling instant noodles, and a toilet. Then 伏虎飞瀑: the fork at 3,816 m is marked by the water, and the fall is 16 m off the line at 3,908 m. 七里亭(眠牛亭) follows at 4,093 m and 狮子亭 at 4,504 m, standing 998 m above the sea, where the pavilions stop.

Above 狮子亭 the ground flattens into the 大树王景区 shelf, 1,538 m of near-level walking that holds the whole historic cluster. 天目普同塔 and 中峰塔院 stand together at 4,975 m, 响水涧 at 5,091 m, the 大树王景区 marker 54 m off the path at 5,335 m, and 开山老殿 5 m from the line at 5,652 m, with 九龙壁 at 5,832 m and 幻住山房 at 5,991 m. 半月池 is 25 m off at 6,148 m and the record's high point, 1,154 m, falls at 6,237 m, which is where the map's one named pedestrian way through this interior, 天目山绿道, passes within 52 m. This is 77 % of 仙人顶's height and no further up the mountain this page will take you.

The second gate of the same ticketed area sits at 6,506 m: 大树王景区售票处地上停车场, 4 m off the path, with 景区出口 pinned twice within 31 m of it and a shop at 6,461 m. This is where the circuit turns from walking into descending, and the descent is the argument for calling this page challenging. Over the next 2.5 km the line loses 522 m, and the walker's own labels along it read 比较抖, then 又陡又滑 at 7,353 m, then 60度的坡 at 8,525 m and 70度的坡 at 8,636 m. Those are one person's shorthand for gradient rather than a survey, but they are placed on the map at the steep bits, and the profile confirms them: this branch gives back the whole climb.

Below 9 km the fall eases but does not stop: another 340 m goes off over the last 2.6 km, past 门西线 at 29.9 m and then 4.2 m, the first named roads this line meets since the gate. The 售票处 is 6.9 m from the path at 11,324 m, the 游客中心 11.2 m at 11,429 m, and the last position falls 190 m short of where the record began, at the 南大门. Between those ends the routing engine offers 216 m of pavement with no road name on any of its three steps, and that stub is drawn nowhere and counted in no total, because stitching a routed answer into a walked line would change what the printed distance means. The 管理局 office that governs this mountain stands 140 m from the finish.