The Red Rock Forest of Youyang

The Red Stone Forest is located on a vast red stone ridge between Qiangqiang Village, Mawang Town, Youyang Autonomous County, and Youshuihe Town in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain in southeastern Chongqing. It is a 470-530 million-year-old Cambrian-Ordovician sedimentary carbonate rock. After crustal movement, differentiation, leaching, and dissolution, it formed a red karst karst landform and a cliff canyon. It has a myriad of forms, unique appearance, elegant connotation, and stubborn exterior; it is breathtaking. Step into the Red Stone Forest. It’s like walking into a magical and dreamy world! The magical fossils of the Red Stone Forest and the peculiar appearance of the stone forest make the viewer curious and eager to explore the ancient world. The Red Stone Forest Belt is dominated by karst landforms, canyon landforms, and stratigraphic profiles, with a deep red and dark purple color and a variety of landscapes. It has unique tourism appreciation, cultural aesthetics, and geological scientific research experience value. The Stone Forest Belt is located on the right bank of the picturesque Youshui River, starting from Maoertan (a small place name) in the second group of Jiangxiwan Village and ending at Xialazhai (a small place name) in the fourth group of Jiangxiwan Village, with a total length of about 2 kilometers. In the core area of ​​Maoertan, the stone forest covering an area of ​​about 2,000 mu is stacked layer by layer with unique shapes.