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Moganshan news in 2026
28 entries from 2026, newest first.
Deqing line trains join Hangzhou Metro Line 10 in tests, but Deqing's stations stay shut
From Saturday 7 November, the four car trains built for the Hangzhou to Deqing line carry passengers on Hangzhou Metro Line 10. Only the stretch already open is in service. No station in Deqing takes passengers yet, and there is still no opening date.
For a visitor: Until an opening is announced, a visitor coming from Hangzhou still takes the high speed train from Hangzhou East to Deqing station; going out to the new stations on the metro gets you nowhere.
- Weekly dispatch
Moganshan dispatch, week 45: rain for the Spartan Race weekend
Week 45, 2026
Rain is forecast for both days of the Spartan Race on 7 and 8 November. No visa free extension had been announced by Wednesday, the red maple season still has no date, and local winter shoots arrive this month.
For a visitor: If you can choose your days, walk on Friday: Saturday and Sunday are forecast wet, and the Spartan Race fills the resort on both.
- Weekly dispatch
Moganshan dispatch, week 44
Week 44, 2026
Thursday to Saturday are forecast dry and mild, and rain returns on Sunday. Spartan Race entries close at midnight on Saturday, and the county paper now reports the Skyrace field at 15,000 in its own words.
For a visitor: If you can choose your days, walk on Friday or Saturday: both are forecast dry, Sunday brings light rain, and Tuesday is wetter still.
A 33 km trail running route from Yucun stays open after the race
A trail running route named after the ultrarunner Zhang Weiqiang opened at Yucun during the Skyrace weekend. Unlike a race course, it stays open to the public, though no map or track has been published.
For a visitor: If you run trails and are staying near Yucun, you now have a named full day route from the town, but wait for a published map or track before setting out, since the report gives none.
Three Deqing parks leave autumn leaves in place
Three Deqing parks are leaving fallen leaves in selected areas for autumn walks, with litter collected and full sweeping resumed when weather creates a hazard.
For a visitor: Visit in dry weather if you want to see the retained leaves, since staff resume full sweeping wherever wet leaves or blocked drains create a hazard.
- Weekly dispatch
Moganshan dispatch, week 43
Week 43, 2026
Rain is forecast from Friday to Sunday, the same three days the Skyrace fills Yucun and the paths above it. Spartan Race entries close on 31 October, and three new places are open at Laoling and on Yujie.
For a visitor: If you are on the mountain this weekend, expect rain from Friday to Sunday and runners on the paths and in Yucun from Friday evening; Monday is the first dry day in the forecast.
A tea farm café at Laoling lets visitors pick and make tea
A Mogan Huangya maker has turned an empty roadside rest stop on his tea farm into a café where customers can pick leaf and watch it fired. It is open now, with no hours or prices published.
For a visitor: If you are on the south side of the mountain this autumn, you can watch tea fired by a recognised Mogan Huangya maker without waiting for spring, but ask your guesthouse to check it is open before you go.
Entries open for a women only trail race near Moganshan on 13 December
Registration is open for a trail race that only women may enter, on Sunday 13 December in the subdistrict next to Moganshan town. Entries close on 12 November, or sooner if the places run out.
For a visitor: If you are a woman who runs and you are planning a December trip, you can enter until 12 November while places last; any other visitor that weekend need change nothing, since the race is off the mountain.
- Weekly dispatch
Moganshan dispatch, week 42
Week 42, 2026
The scenic area now has an approved plan with a legal ceiling on visits, but no quota or booking system yet. From 23 to 25 October the Skyrace fills Yucun, and the railway still has no opening date.
For a visitor: Nothing changes when you reach the scenic area gate: the new ceiling of 24,000 visits a day has no quota or booking system behind it yet.
- Weekly dispatch
Moganshan dispatch, week 41
Week 41, 2026
The National Day holiday is over, and Saturday 10 October is a working day across China, so the first weekend after the holiday is a single Sunday. The next busy dates on the mountain are two race weekends, in late October and early November.
For a visitor: Treat Saturday 10 October as a weekday and Sunday 11 October as the weekend, and if you want a quiet visit before winter, avoid 23 to 25 October and 7 to 8 November, the two race weekends.
Spartan Race Moganshan is set for 7 and 8 November, with entries open to 31 October
The Spartan obstacle race returns to the Moganshan resort on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November. Its registration page lists four courses, from 5 km to 50 km, and takes entries until 31 October while places last.
For a visitor: A visitor who wants a quiet weekend on the mountain should avoid 7 and 8 November, and anyone racing or staying near the resort that weekend should book a room now rather than in the last fortnight.
Cold air brings rain to the first half of the holiday, then autumn
A cold front from the north is pushing Deqing into autumn this week. The first four days of the holiday look wet and windy, the last three dry, with mornings in the low teens in the county town and colder on the mountain.
For a visitor: Pack a waterproof and a warm layer, and if you can choose the day for a long walk on the mountain, take 5, 6 or 7 October rather than the first four days of the holiday.
A village power station in Moganshan town opens on trial as a pool garden
The name promises a sinkhole. What a reporter found was a disused village power station and kindergarten turned into a tropical garden with a pool, food, coffee and stream walking, open on trial with no published hours or prices.
For a visitor: There is a new place to spend a few hours in the villages of Moganshan town, but it is on trial, so check it is open and what it charges before you drive out, and ask before wading a stream after this week's rain.
- Weekly dispatch
Moganshan dispatch, week 40
Week 40, 2026
More than 12,000 guests stayed on Moganshan over Mid Autumn, and at least one hotel is booked out for the whole of National Day. Persimmon picking opens in a Moganshan village on 1 October.
For a visitor: If you have no room booked for 1 to 7 October, look at the days after the holiday rather than hunting through it. The Hangzhou to Deqing railway still has no opening date, so nothing changes about how you get here this month.
Deqing publishes its holiday programme, with a street festival at Yucun
The county's programme for the two holidays appeared on 24 September. Closest to the mountain are a street festival at Yucun and chestnut picking at guesthouses. Prices and hours are not given.
For a visitor: If you are staying at Moganshan over either holiday, the Yucun festival evenings are the nearest thing on the programme, and chestnut picking is worth asking your host about before you arrive.
- Weekly dispatch
Moganshan dispatch, week 39
Week 39, 2026
The Hangzhou to Deqing railway has its wayfinding signs up and its station shopping centre opening this week, but no published opening date. Two new places to stop have opened in a Moganshan village.
For a visitor: Nothing this week changes a trip you have already booked. If you are planning National Day, no Golden Week programme for Moganshan has been published with a week to go, and the Hangzhou to Deqing railway still has no opening date, so plan on arriving at Deqing station exactly as you would have done in the spring.
Moganshan's 1910 swimming pool reopens as a café on trial
The pool and the building beside it had been sealed up for years. Both are open again, with coffee and kiln baked bread served at the water's edge, and no published hours or prices yet.
For a visitor: If you are already paying to enter the scenic area there is now somewhere to sit at the top, but the hours are not published, the prices are not published, and a trial opening can close again without notice.
Osmanthus is in flower on Moganshan, weeks ahead of the valley
More than seven hundred trees are opening across the mountain, and the main flush runs for weeks rather than one weekend. The mountain is ahead of the valley because it is colder.
For a visitor: If the scent is what you are coming for, you have weeks rather than a single weekend, and the two places the county paper names are both inside the ticketed scenic area.
Chestnut picking in the Moganshan villages runs to about 15 October
Deqing News reported on 17 September that the chestnut groves around Gaofeng village have come into season and that picking should hold until about 15 October, which covers both the Mid-Autumn and the National Day holidays.
For a visitor: If you are on the mountain between now and the middle of October, chestnut picking is a cheap half day that needs no scenic area ticket. The same weeks are the busiest of the autumn, so book a guesthouse table rather than turning up for lunch.
A quarry at the Kaiyuan Senbo resort is due to start trial running in October
Deqing News reported on 16 September that the Interstellar Mine Pit, built inside a disused quarry at the Kaiyuan Senbo resort, is under construction and is expected to start trial running in October. The resort is near Xiazhu Lake, not on Moganshan itself.
For a visitor: Nothing is bookable and no opening day has been published, so do not build an October trip around it. If you are already booked into the resort with children, ask at the desk whether the pit is running before you pay for anything extra.
- Weekly dispatch
Moganshan dispatch, week 38
Week 38, 2026
Nothing on the mountain itself changed this week. Three sites were finished or opened nearby, a conference the county will not date yet is close, and the tourism enforcement team published the one thing worth acting on now.
For a visitor: Nothing changed this week that alters a trip you have already booked. The one item to act on is the enforcement case: if you pay a Chinese travel agency, pay into its company account rather than a personal WeChat, and ask to see the travel agency licence as well as the business licence.
Kailas Moganshan Skyrace is set for 23 to 25 October, with registration closed
The organiser of the Kailas Moganshan Skyrace lists the 2026 event for 23 to 25 October. Its entry page covers distances from 10 km to 100 km and now marks registration as closed.
For a visitor: A visitor can no longer enter through the organiser's page, and anyone booking the same weekend should allow for a large trail event before choosing a village or transport plan.
Registration opens for a 22.65 km Moganshan trail race on 6 October
Registration is open for the UTO Moganshan trail training race on 6 October 2026. The single 22.65 km course starts from Yucun Square at 07:30, with an early rate available until 10:00 on 15 September.
For a visitor: A visitor who wants to run can enter now and save RMB 40 before the early rate ends, while other visitors should expect Yucun Square to be busy early on 6 October.
Deqing puts FIBA 3x3 World Tour tickets on sale for 26 and 27 September
Tickets are now on sale for the FIBA 3x3 World Tour stop in Deqing on 26 and 27 September 2026. The county says a ticket stub will also unlock offers at four visitor areas, including the Moganshan resort.
For a visitor: A visitor can now book the tournament and use the same ticket stub for local offers, but should check the booking channel for the exact benefits before planning around them.
Three OR cafés open across Moganshan town this month
A café brand called OR opens three sites in Moganshan town in September 2026, on Tianquan Mountain, in Nanlu village and in the Mogan Yujie shopping street, Deqing News reported on 4 September. All three serve coffee and western food, and the founders' second branch is going to Shanghai.
For a visitor: A visitor staying in the villages gets somewhere to sit with a coffee that is not the guesthouse, at three points on the mountain. Check the shops are trading before walking up to the Tianquan site, which is the one with no street around it.
A Spartan obstacle base opens on the old Discovery park site in October
The Spartan Moganshan warrior base is under construction on the site of the former Discovery adventure park and is due to open to the public in October 2026, Deqing News reported on 3 September. The Spartan Race and its children's race return to the resort in November.
For a visitor: Nothing is bookable yet, and a visitor should not plan an October trip around it until a date and a ticket page appear. The November race weekend is the one to plan around: last year it brought more than 4,000 participants, and rooms near the resort will be tight.
The Hangzhou to Deqing rail line begins trial running, opening due by the end of 2026
Trains started running without passengers on the Hangzhou to Deqing line on 2 September 2026. When it opens, due by the end of the year, it will run through onto Hangzhou Metro Line 10, and Deqing high speed rail station will be about 40 minutes from central Hangzhou with no change of train.
For a visitor: Nothing changes for a trip this autumn. From the opening, a visitor in Hangzhou will reach Deqing station by metro, tap in and out, no ticket to book, and the last leg from the station to the mountain stays as it is.
Canada and the United Kingdom go visa free, and the list reaches 50
On 17 February 2026 China added Canada and the United Kingdom to its unilateral visa free list, taking it to 50 countries. Holders of both passports now enter for 30 days with no application and no fee.
For a visitor: With a British or Canadian passport, the trip needs a ticket and nothing else. American passports are not on the list at any date and take the 240 hour transit route instead.