Biseulsan hike info

Biseulsan rises to 1,084 m in Dalseong County, Daegu. It is the shape of the top that stays with you rather than the height. There are no needle spires here: the ridge opens into a wide grassy plateau. In late April the whole meadow floods pink with wild azalea, which Koreans call chamkkot. One story behind the name says the rocks on top looked like a hermit playing a zither.

A river of stone runs down the slope. The Biseulsan rock stream, Natural Monument No. 435, is a band of boulders about 80 m wide and 2 km long that looks like a dry riverbed. Near the top are the remains of the old temple Daegyeonsa, where a lone three-storey stone pagoda stands on the cliff edge over the plains. The monk Iryeon, who wrote the Samguk Yusa, is closely tied to this mountain.

There are two main starting points. From the recreation forest, most people take the road-like trail up toward Daegyeonsa. The other side starts at Yugasa temple, with forest trail and rocky ridge. In autumn the ridge fills with maple and silver grass. Wildfires in recent years have closed some trails, so check which routes are open before you go.

From Seoul (KTX)

From Busan, Daegu and elsewhere (BUS)

To the trailhead (LOC)