Do you need to book Underground Forest & the deep pools in advance?
Yes — Underground Forest & the deep pools in Changbaishan runs on real-name advance reservation. A foreign passport works as the real-name ID. No linkable official booking page is recorded. The row does not provide enough evidence to name an official booking route. Our row says a foreign passport is accepted.
Verified 2026-06-13 · rules change; confirm on the official channel before you travel
The booking rule, in detail
- Reservation
- Required in advance
- Foreign passport
- A foreign passport works as the real-name ID.
- Official channel
- No linkable official booking page is recorded. The row does not provide enough evidence to name an official booking route. Our row says a foreign passport is accepted.
How a foreign visitor actually books it
No separate ticket — these are walking stops on the North Slope shuttle loop, reached on foot once you are inside on your gate entry and in-park shuttle. Just bring your passport for the gate.
What else to know
We link no official booking page here — covered by park entry and shuttle, no ticket of its own. The Underground Forest (sometimes called the Valley Forest), about 12 km from the North Gate, is a short, easy walk of roughly half an hour down into a collapsed crater-like valley filled with old-growth trees — a good low-altitude option for a cloudy day when the summit is closed in. Nearby on the same side are the Green Deep Pool (a green-water pond fed by a small waterfall) and the Small Sky Pond / Silver Ring Lake, with gentle riverside trails of one to two hours linking them toward the main waterfall. These forest and water walks are the reliable, weather-proof part of a Changbaishan visit when Tianchi itself is clouded out.
If the official channel does not work
Do not assume an unrecorded booking route is available. Recheck the operator’s current instructions; where the interface itself is the obstacle, the practical mechanics are in buying tickets the official way and booking without WeChat.
Other Changbaishan sights and their booking rules
- Changbai Waterfall & the hot springs book ahead
- Tianchi / Heaven Lake book ahead
- Tianchi via the West Slope book ahead
Full city context, hotels that register foreigners, and what to eat: Changbaishan guide. Release times across every city we track are in Reservation Radar.