Trail file
Difficulty 4/5 · Tai Tam Country Park
Wilson Trail Island stages
Stanley / Tai Tam toward Quarry Bay. An Island traverse: reservoirs, hills, then a sudden city exit.
19 km · 500 m ↗ · 7–10 h · Southern → Wan Chai
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Distance
19 km
Elevation
500 m
Moving time
6–8 h
Clock time
7–10 h
Elevation profile
15–300 m
Trail map
22.260000, 114.210000
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Reconstructed schematic path (not a surveyed GPX)
How to go
- Outbound
- Stanley bus 6/6X/260 or Tai Tam Road. Wilson 1–2 crosses the Island south to north.
- Return
- Wan Chai / Admiralty MTR. Do not reverse to Stanley unless a car waits.
- Last transport
- Urban MTR is late. Time the last Southern District bus.
- Abort / bad weather
- Leave the ridge in thunder. Stay off Tai Tam water edges.
- From the hubs
- Central–Stanley 40–55 min. Return via Admiralty is faster.
- Octopus / transfers
- Bus + MTR Octopus.
All regions
- Start district
- Southern
- End district
- Wan Chai
- Country park
- Tai Tam Country Park
- Long-distance trail
- Wilson Trail Stages 1–2
- Villages
- Stanley, Tai Tam
- Approx. grid
- Island N–S traverse
- Management / emergency
- AFCD Tai Tam.
Analysis
Exposure
3/5
Scrambling
2/5
Shade
Mixed forest and reservoir
Signal
Weak in valleys
Little on trail
Not family-friendly
Crux
Length.
Analysis
Trades the southern sea for Wan Chai hills. The district change is the point.
- Start
- Tai Tam / Stanley side
- End
- Quarry Bay
- Scenery
- Tai Tam reservoir, ridges, Eastern exit
- Fitness
- Long-distance.
- Season window
- Autumn–winter. Summer in sections only.
- Risk
- Distance misread; summer overheating.
- Kids
- Reservoir sections only.
- Older walkers
- Reservoir roads are more suitable.
Gear
- · 2.5 L, backup lamp
Water
- · Stanley, Wan Chai.
Toilets
- · Stanley Plaza, Wan Chai parks.
Resupply
- · Stanley market, Admiralty.
Risk
- · Overlong day
- · Tai Tam road sections