Shing Mum Country Park), on June 24, 1977 delimitation, is a Hong Kong Country Park, an area of ​​1,400 hectares. The park is located north Lead Mine Pass, South Shing Mun Reservoir Road; Tai Mo Shan from the west, east and needle Grassy Hill. Located southeast foothills of Tai Mo Shan Shing Mun Reservoir is in the country parks, surrounded by mountains, beautiful scenery, has become a picnic spot. Shing Mun and Tai Mo Shan feng shui woods Special Areas Special Areas upland shrub forest is located in the Shing Mun Country Park.

history

　　As should Fu Jiulong urban population growth, demand for water for food, the authorities began construction in 1933, Shing Mun Reservoir and migration to the New Territories where residents. Was completed in 1936, King George V coincides with the 25th anniversary of accession to the throne, it is also called "Jubilee pond." World War II Japanese occupation, the gate area is a large number of trees cut logging, reforestation after the war, including love's pine, red bakelite, Melaleuca and Acacia and other varieties, one of the major plantation in Hong Kong .

　　The Hong Kong Government in 1971 by the Sir David Trench Fund for Recreation (Sir David Trench Fund for Recreation) funding, setting a number of experimental outing recreational facilities, and even welcomed by the public. Founded in 1977 Shing Mun Country Park, Hong Kong is one of the first country park, established in the same period there Kam Shan Country Park and Lion Rock Country Park.

　　In addition, to cope with Mobil, Lei Muk Shue and Kwai Chung, New Territories East exchanges and alleviate traffic tunnel lion squeeze, the government purposely built Shing Mun Tunnel in February 1987, and the tunnel has been completed in April 1990.

Picnic facilities

　　"Shing Mun Country Park Visitor Center" is located next to the minibus station, equipped exhibition presents the history of the Hakka villagers pineapple dam area of ​​the (native of the Qing Dynasty: Wuhua, Xingning area) construction and relocation of the pond and early mining industry information, as well as woodland habitat models and other exhibits. The park and a "arboretum", for tourists to view a variety of plants. Reservoir main dam area with barbecue facilities, and set up toilets, tea pavilion, rain shelters, warden, jogging track, pineapple dam nature trails, viewing platform and so on. And there are camping sites near Lead Mine Pass.

Shing Mun Arboretum

　　4-hectare arboretum, original Shing Mun Valley village after the construction of reservoirs relocation abandoned terraces, starting from the early 1970s, gradually growing different representative of the trees, until 2000, were planted more than 270 local or plant species in southern China, a total of 7,000 trees.

Hiking path

　　MacLehose diameter (paragraph 7): is once short passages MacLehose diameter. Reservoir dam gates by the main needle Hill, Grassy, ​​galena and then down to the recess.

　　Wilson Trail (paragraph 7): Reservoir Yuan pier by the gates, along rural reservoirs Tung Road River offering views across the trees.

　　Pass gates Road: "Pass gates" that today's Galena concave, as big (Tai Po) dealings arteries shallow bays (TW), the Jiaqing 24 years of "Xin'an County" (1819) it has its the carrier also; the stone path past (Hakka: put on) starting point for Pan Chung, the Wun Yiu, Yuen Tuen, blacksmith Ren, lead concave to the village gates, including part of the Wilson Trail runoff segment. Pass trail to strike while the iron gates of the palace is now left Ren Guan Yin dynasty, thirty three years under the (1907) Strider donated tablets of gold to repair the temple, next to the bowl Yaocun in the early eighties still erected to Kowloon, Tsuen Wan (Qing Dynasty names as "shallow bay") ask for the stone.

Scenic Area Address: Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong and Tai Lam Chung Shing Mun Road near the intersection catchwaters

Bus routes: Take 82 Road, New Territories GMB Go