Cheongtaesan Natural Recreation Forest, Creation of 'Barefoot Clay Trail' and Five-Sense Satisfaction Experience

At the National Cheongtaesan Natural Recreation Forest, visitors are lined up experiencing walking on the loess path. The National Natural Recreation Forest Management Office created the loess path here for the first time in the Gangwon region. Photo by National Natural Recreation Forest Management Office

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] A clay path where visitors can walk barefoot has been created at Cheongtaesan Natural Recreation Forest to help visitors enjoy a sensory satisfaction experience.

The Korea National Park Service announced on the 17th that it has started operating a wet clay path constructed on the forest road within Cheongtaesan Natural Recreation Forest.

The wet clay path was first created in the Gangwon region. It is 370 meters long and 1.2 meters wide, located on the section from the deck road of Cheongtaesan Natural Recreation Forest to the campground.

The Park Service expects that by creating the path with soft-textured yellow soil, visitors can walk barefoot on the clay path and enjoy a sensory experience.

Above all, it emphasizes that conditions have been prepared where visitors can relieve foot fatigue on the clay path after hiking, enjoy foot massage, and take a forest bath in the pine nut forest.

Cheongtaesan Natural Recreation Forest also has a 1 km deck road and a health forest road within the pine nut forest, offering the advantage of various walking experiences besides barefoot walking.

Additionally, special programs such as feeding the Korean tit for free for family visitors, traditional folk games experience, and stories of Hwajeonmin enjoyed through videos are provided, enabling diverse activities for forest visitors.

Lee Young-rok, director of the Natural Recreation Forest Management Office, said, “I hope visitors find physical and mental stability from the prolonged infectious disease situation in the forest and create precious memories. However, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, we ask visitors to pay attention to following quarantine rules such as wearing masks.”

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