A trail race called Ultra-Trail Mogan runs on Moganshan under the UTMB World Series banner.
The mountain is in Deqing County, Huzhou prefecture, Zhejiang Province, China. The nearest big city is Hangzhou, 60 km south, and Shanghai is 200 to 240 km away. Check the name before you enter anything: there is a Moganshan Road 200 km from here, in Shanghai’s Putuo District, an art quarter that clutters these results.
The race, and where to get its numbers
Ultra-Trail Mogan runs under the UTMB World Series, the global circuit built around the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc race in France. Finishing one of its races earns Running Stones, the credits that feed the Mont-Blanc lottery, and how many depends on the distance you run.
Ultra-Trail Mogan’s UTMB World Series affiliation and video coverage, BeyondBorder Group Ltd primary research, 1 to 5 August 2026.
Everything that decides whether you can enter comes from the organiser and only from the organiser:
- whether an edition is scheduled this year, and on what date
- the distances, elevation gain and cut off times
- the entry fee and the registration window
- Running Stones earned per distance
- field size, and where the start and finish sit
Go to the UTMB World Series site and open the Ultra-Trail Mogan event page. Search the official domain rather than the race name, because aggregators outrank organisers for a small Asian event, and a distance or a cut off taken from a third party page is not worth having. Chinese events publish in Chinese first, and the English follows late and secondhand.
What the ground is actually like
The organiser has the course. What follows is the ground it runs over.
The high point is Tashan, at 719 to 720 metres. The 758 m you may see quoted is wrong. Nothing here is alpine. Nobody blows up on altitude, and a road is never far.
Over 92 percent of the mountain is forest, nearly all of it moso bamboo, a commercial crop cut for poles and dug for shoots. About 20 km² of that is the core scenic area, threaded by stone paths and steps laid from the 1890s to move summer families between villas.
Plan around the stone. Built steps punish legs in a way dirt does not, and wet stone is slick. Zhejiang summers are humid, and the heat breaks more runners here than the climbing.
| The ground | What it means for a runner |
|---|---|
| Surface | Built stone and steps, not soft trail |
| July to August | 24.1 °C mean, 6 to 7 °C cooler than Shanghai and Hangzhou |
| January | 1.4 °C mean, close to freezing |
Walking and hiking covers the same ground at walking pace.
Book a bed before you book anything else
The harder problem is not the running. Before anyone adds a race, this mountain is full at weekends.
| What a race weekend runs into | Figure |
|---|---|
| High end occupancy, May 2024 holiday | 94 percent |
| Yucun footfall, National Day 2025 | 30 to 40 percent above normal |
| Guesthouses around the mountain, September 2025 | about 1,000 |
| Of those, in Xiantan village | more than 150 (166 in June 2023) |
| Mid range room, off season | RMB 300 to 500 |
| Mid range room, peak | RMB 1,000 or more |
| The quiet day | Monday |
Holiday occupancy, footfall, guesthouse counts and room rates, BeyondBorder Group Ltd primary research, 1 to 5 August 2026.
166 guesthouses in Xiantan, People’s Daily (人民日报), 12 June 2023, tier 2. https://www.crnews.net/zt/srxxzjqwgcjy/zqbwjsyy/955610_20230612122458.html
That looks like plenty until a race weekend meets a holiday weekend.
Book the day you have a date, and pick somewhere that serves dinner. Chinese reporting records no evening economy here: no night market, little late food. Where to stay breaks the villages down, and seasons explains what moves the price.
The 18:00 problem
Take the train to Deqing. No station called Moganshan exists today: the old one in Wukang carried the name from 1992 to 2005 and is now Deqing West, on the slow line. Deqing station: which exit, which taxi, which bus has the detail.
Two clocks run against you.
| Deadline | What it is |
|---|---|
| 16:00 | Last Y1 shuttle from Deqing Coach Centre. RMB 10, 30 to 40 minutes, seven daily |
| 08:00 to 18:00 | Transfer centres at Yucun, Fatou and Houwu. Private cars cannot enter the scenic area |
Those hours decide when your race day can start and end.
Y1 timings and transfer centre hours, BeyondBorder Group Ltd primary research, 1 to 5 August 2026.
A taxi is about RMB 100 and 30 minutes, and still cannot get you past a shut transfer centre. Arrive after 18:00 the night before a race and you spend it solving a problem. Send your guesthouse the train number before you travel, not after.
Scenic area tickets are charged, and published prices disagree.
| Source | Adult ticket |
|---|---|
| One | RMB 120 online, RMB 130 at the gate |
| The other | RMB 50 off season, RMB 80 at peak |
| Dated Chinese guides, 2020 and 2023 | RMB 80 at the window |
Whether a race entry covers the gate is a question for the organiser, not the ticket office.
The car ban settles what a supporter can do: nobody drives the course, so a companion follows on foot or by bus. Getting around explains that, and things to do covers what else is up here.
Figures on this page were checked 5 August 2026. Confirm the race itself, and every number attached to it, with UTMB World Series.
Last checked 26 October 2026 by Liyan Ye. Prices, timetables and entry rules on this mountain move without notice, so confirm anything you are booking around.
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