Overview
Maninsan means a ‘High and vast mountain of ten thousand paths’ featuring a beautiful mountain surface along with a beautiful valley such as Bongsuraemi Valley, which is the source of Daejeonchoen River. Maninsan Mountain is a beautiful mountain all year around but you can see the true beauty of spring when its full of blossoming azaleas and cherry blossoms.
Maninsan Natural Recreation Forest, featuring an outstanding mountain surface beautiful enough for the burial of the afterbirth of King Taejo and his princes during the Joseon Period, is located at the skirt of Maninsan Mountain where you can see clean water always flowing through the valley between the thick broadleaf trees. Maninsan Natural Recreation Forest is about 550,000 pyeong and its natural ridge is utilized for forest classrooms, forest parks, family recreation areas, green academies, camping sites, fitness centers, service areas, pavilions, picnic areas, and hiking trails. It is a recreation forest located close to the city and people from the city can easily find their way here. It is a location loved as a friendly and pleasant resting place.
Tour Tips
Drive straight from the sign from Daejeon Station towards Geumsan and enter the Sannae driving route. This section is about 10km from the inner mountain until Maninsan and features many plane trees. You will feel like you are passing through a long, cool tunnel when leaves are green during summer. As soon as you enter Sannae Road, you will pass the Sanne Grave Village, famous for grapes, to your right and Sang-so Forest Reserve and Dong-gu Youth Nature Center to the left on your way to Maninsan. There is frequent traffic and there is no traffic light at the intersection to turn left into Sang-so Forest Reserve so it is recommended to visit Sang-so Forest Reserve on the way back from touring Maninsan.
Maninsan features the placenta chamber of King Taejo Yi Seong-gye of the Joseon Dynasty and beacon fire stations connecting Yeongnam and Honam regions. It is an historic site for folk culture and has long been renowned for being a picturesque site.
Chungcheongnam-do Province designated the national forest, consisting of about 600,000 pyeong around Maninsan Mountain, as a profit sharing forest in 1958 and it has nurtured plants and animals actively for 30 years to create a forest with forest trees seen in advanced forest nations with 186m² per ha.
Our city was promoted to a city directly under the control of the central government in 1989 and it acquired the 600,000 pyeong of Maninsan Mountain National Forest free of cost from Chungcheongnam-do Province. It was designated as Maninsan Natural Recreation Forest to contribute to improvement in health, rest and the development of sentiment for the people. The great nature of Maninsan Mountain has been contributing to improving public and common interest values while providing space to experience and learn about the natural environment.
Maninsan Service Area is a convenience facility for the recreational forest constructed from private capital in 1990 and it utilized the natural valley without damaging the forest at the time of construction to build a tech facility at the valley with two floors above ground and one semi-basement level. Its main structure is reinforced concrete and it is constructed with wood. With a pond in front of the service area to help it blend with the natural landscape, experts have praised it as the most beautiful and magnificent service area of Korea and it has now been established as an attraction visited by people for leisure.
Maninrugak Pavilion is an architectural work symbolic of leisure of Maninsan Mountain and is a renowned pavilion featuring the architectural style of Segeomjeong Pavilion with a reinforced concrete structure and wooden roof tiles on the roof built with 2 floors, which preserved the beauty of the traditional architectural style unique to Korea while constructed in consideration of maintenance work in the future. This place is a forest experience site for the youth and a training site for ganghojaehyeon and hoyeonjigi.
Location
Haso-dong, Dong-gu, Daejeon Metropolitan City