Yangmingshan National Park Live Cam

A landscape shaped by fire and fog

Yangmingshan unfolds like a living geological textbook where heat, pressure and the passage of time have carved a landscape of steaming fumaroles, broad grasslands and sculpted ridgelines. The park sits within a larger volcanic system that has periodically expressed itself through hot springs and sulfur vents; these energetic patches of earth are not merely scenic oddities, they are the surface signatures of processes occurring deep underground. As a guide I like to point out how the terrain reads like a set of cross-sections: crater-formed hollows, layers of ash and lava reworked into terraces, and acidic soils that favor a very particular plant community.