How Much Is The Entrance Fee In Yehliu Geopark?

How Much Is The Entrance Fee In Yehliu Geopark?

The entrance fee at Yehliu Geopark is NT$120 for a general adult ticket, NT$60 for concession holders, NT$96 per person for a general group of 30 or more, and NT$48 per person for a student group of 30 or more. Children under 6 and a listed set of other visitors enter free. The park opens 08:00 to 17:00, and to 18:00 in summer, with last entry at the closing hour itself.

Those figures come straight from the geopark's own ticket page, which is the only source worth trusting for them. Blog copies of this table drift badly, often quoting an older price that no longer applies, so it pays to read the numbers from the source. The current structure is simple: one full fare, one concession fare, and two group fares that only kick in at 30 people.

Here is the full ticket table as the park publishes it:

Two details in that table are easy to miss. First, the group threshold counts students and over-65s separately, so a mixed party of 20 adults and 12 students does not automatically qualify as a 32-person group for the general fare. Second, the concession for anyone 65 or over applies to any nationality, not only Taiwanese residents, which is more generous than several other ticketed sites in the north. The park's own page carries the authoritative version of all of this at the official Yehliu ticket page.

A note on how the concession works in practice. The student rate requires a Taiwanese student ID, so international students holding only a home-country card fall back to the general NT$120 fare unless they also qualify another way, for instance by age. ISIC holders get the concession rate but are excluded from the group discount, which is a small trap for student groups arriving with international cards rather than Taiwanese ones. None of this is hidden, it is all on the official page, but it is the kind of detail that only matters when you are standing at the window with thirty people behind you.

If you are building a north-coast day rather than a Yehliu-only visit, the ticket is usually a small share of the total day. These are the three most common ways travellers combine the geopark with the Jiufen and Shifen side of the hill:

Do Any Tours From Taipei Include The Yehliu Ticket In The Price?

Most day tours from Taipei that stop at Yehliu leave the NT$120 entrance fee for you to buy at the gate, and only one product on this site states in its own listing that tickets are included. For every other tour, check the operator's live listing before assuming the ticket is covered, because inclusion varies product to product and the listing is the only authoritative answer.

This is the more interesting money question once you know the ticket price, because a From $20 coach seat and a pricier small-group seat can end up closer together than they look once you add NT$120 per adult at the gate. The roster of bookable products is candid about this: the Yehliu, Jiufen, Shifen and Pineapple Cake DIY day tour carries "tickets included" in its own name, and nothing else on the site makes that claim. For the rest, the honest answer is that the fee is paid separately at the park.

Here is how the main Yehliu-reaching tours stack up on price and what their listings actually say about the ticket:

The arithmetic matters more than the sticker price. A From $20.29 seat on the big four-stop day plus NT$120 at the gate is still one of the cheapest full north-coast days available anywhere, and that tour, rated 4.9 across 47,355 reviews, is the strongest-proven product on this entire site. At the other end, the Yehliu, Golden Waterfall, Jiufen, Shifen day tour at From $55.08 per person is a smaller-volume listing with hotel pickup and free cancellation confirmed, and it covers five stops including the Golden Waterfall, which many bigger coaches skip.

A practical note on timing: the two-stop Yehliu Geopark & Jiufen Old Street full-day tour is the unhurried option, with free cancellation confirmed and hotel pickup, and it suits travellers who would rather linger at the Queen's Head than race through Shifen as well. If you are weighing that against a combined itinerary, the post on whether to visit Jiufen or Shifen first breaks down the sequencing question in detail.

There is also a cancellation dimension worth weighing alongside the ticket. Of the tours in the table above, the Yehliu Geopark & Jiufen Old Street full-day tour and the sky-lantern day tour both carry free cancellation confirmed on their listings, while the two biggest-volume coach products do not state a policy at all. An unstated policy is not the same as a no-refund policy, but it does mean you are committing without a confirmed safety net, and for a trip shaped around weather on an exposed headland, that difference can matter. The northeast coast is wet: the nearest weather station with long-run records, at Keelung about 12 km away, logs 193.6 rain days a year, so flexibility has real value here.

What Do The Fines At Yehliu Say About Touching The Rocks?

The park's own ticket page lists fines of up to NT$500,000 for climbing on or damaging the rock formations, plus restoration costs, and up to NT$5,000,000 more if the damage cannot be repaired. Flying a drone draws NT$300,000 to NT$1,500,000, littering or crossing the safety line NT$5,000 to NT$1,000,000, and smoking NT$2,000 to NT$10,000.

The entrance fee is small money. The fine schedule is not, and it is published on the same official page as the tickets, which is unusual and worth taking seriously. Yehliu's formations are the product of thousands of years of wave-cut erosion in the sandstone, and the park treats them as irreplaceable. The Queen's Head, the most famous of them, had a neck circumference of 116.59 cm at its October 2024 measurement, down from about 220 cm in 1994, a loss of 103.41 cm over 31 years of natural weathering alone. Every footprint and handhold accelerates that.

The fine schedule in full, as the park publishes it:

The collection ban surprises people. Picking up a shell or a small rock from the platform is treated the same way as littering under the park's reading of the Tourism Development Act, and hermit crabs are named explicitly. The drone ban is nearly total: only government bodies, schools and legal persons on official business may apply for permission, so a travel drone stays in the bag.

It is worth being clear about why the numbers run so high. The upper tier of the rock-damage fine is not really a fine in the everyday sense, it is a restoration liability: the NT$500,000 ceiling is the penalty, and the restoration costs and the further up-to-NT$5,000,000 are billed on top for damage that cannot be undone. Since a formation like the Queen's Head literally cannot be repaired, the theoretical exposure for destroying it is the full stack. Nobody expects a tourist to pay NT$5.5 million, but the park has chosen to publish the ceiling, and that choice tells you how it ranks the resource against visitor convenience.

When Is Yehliu Geopark Open, And When Is The Last Entry?

Yehliu Geopark is open 08:00 to 17:00 year-round, and 08:00 to 18:00 in summer, with the last ticket sold and the last entry at the closing hour itself, not before it. The official page says "summer" without publishing exact dates, so treat the extended hours as seasonal and confirm before a late-afternoon visit.

That last-entry rule is genuinely unusual. Many parks in Taiwan stop admitting visitors an hour before closing, but Yehliu's own page states that the final ticket and final entry happen at the closing hour, which means a 16:45 arrival still gets you a full gate experience on a standard-season day. Late afternoon is also when the tour coaches thin out, so the trade can work in your favour.

The practical planning point is the direction of travel. Yehliu sits on the coast at Wanli, west of the Jiufen and Shifen cluster, so most day tours hit the geopark first and then swing east, or the reverse. If you are going independently, the guide to getting from Taipei to Jiufen covers the rail side of that trip, and the rail facts there matter for the Shifen leg: there is no direct train from Taipei to Shifen, you change at Ruifang, and the Pingxi branch runs 17 direct trains a day with a flat NT$29 fare from Ruifang. The bus side to Yehliu is different, and no verified fare or timetable for it exists in any official source this site could fetch, so check the operator's own pages rather than blog figures.

One more timing detail that pairs with the closing hour. The branch line's departures from Ruifang thin out sharply in the late afternoon, with a gap of 1h39m after the 16:54 departure and another of 1h44m after the 19:22, and the line runs the same 17 trains on a Saturday as on a Monday, with no extra weekend capacity. If your plan is Yehliu in the late afternoon followed by Shifen by rail, the timetable, not the park's gate, is the constraint that bites first. Plan the geopark around its generous last entry, but plan the branch line around its actual clock.

Who Gets Into Yehliu Geopark For Free?

Free entry at Yehliu Geopark covers children under 6, Wanli District residents with ID, disability certificate holders plus one companion or necessary carer, licensed guides and tour leaders with credentials, volunteer honour card holders, and anyone on official duty. Proof of status is checked at the gate, so carry the relevant card or document.

The free list is more generous than the ticket table alone suggests. The companion rule is the one worth flagging for accessibility planning: a disability certificate admits both the holder and one necessary companion or carer at no charge, which is spelled out on the official page rather than left to interpretation. Licensed guides travelling with a group also enter free on credentials, which is one quiet reason guided tours keep their per-person costs down.

For comparison, if your day also takes in the Gold Museum at Jinguashi on the Jiufen side, that museum charges NT$80 admission, is closed the first Monday of every month, and accepts cash, EasyCard and O'Pay at the gate. Its hours and free-entry rules are on the museum's own English page, and the first-Monday closure is the detail most English guides miss entirely.

The two free lists are not identical, by the way, and the differences are worth knowing if you are stringing both sights into one day. The Gold Museum admits all registered New Taipei residents, nationals 65 and over, enrolled students, indigenous nationals 55 and over, low-income certificate holders and volunteer honour card holders free, on top of its own disability-companion rule. Yehliu's list instead turns on age thresholds, district residency, guiding credentials and official duty. A visitor who qualifies free at one site may well pay full fare at the other, so check both lists against your own documents before assuming a discount carries across the hill.

Is The Yehliu Entrance Fee Worth The Money?

At NT$120, roughly the price of a cheap meal in Taipei, Yehliu Geopark is one of the better-value ticketed sights on Taiwan's north coast, and the 4.9-across-47,355-reviews day tour that stops there is the strongest-proven product on this site. The formations are genuinely singular, the fines exist because they are fragile, and the ticket buys access to a landscape with no real substitute on the island.

The honest case for the fee is the Queen's Head itself. The measured series is stark: about 220 cm in 1994, about 130 cm in 2012, about 125 cm in 2018, and 116.59 cm in October 2024, all attributed by both reporting outlets to the North Coast and Guanyinshan National Scenic Area Administration. The formation loses roughly a centimetre a year to weathering alone, and when the administration's own official was asked how much longer it can stand, his answer was that even specialists find it hard to forecast. Two Taiwanese outlets, Liberty Times and UDN, carried the measurement independently, and UDN's report is the more recent of the pair.

The case against is mostly about crowds and time. On weekends and holidays the north-coast corridor is heavily managed: the signed New Taipei traffic control plan runs 08:00 to 20:00 on every weekend, national holiday and make-up working day, coach access to the Jiufen side is rationed to roughly 40 approved coaches a day, and applications are refused entirely during holiday runs of three or more consecutive days. That plan restricts coaches rather than private cars, and it never restricts pedestrians, but it shapes the whole corridor's rhythm. A weekday visit, or a tour that times Yehliu early or late, sidesteps most of it.

There is a seasonal argument too, and it runs against the usual Taiwan advice. The nearest long-record weather station, Keelung, logs its driest month as July, at 119.5 mm across 8.5 rain days, with August next, while November is the wettest at 396.9 mm. For this windward corner of the island, summer is the dry window and the deep winter months are the grey ones, with December recording just 48.5 sunshine hours across the whole month. If your objection to a Yehliu visit is fog and drizzle rather than price, the calendar, not the ticket, is what you should be adjusting.

For a fuller treatment of the park itself, the Yehliu Geopark guide covers the formations and the photography angles, and the site's own Jiufen Tour homepage pulls the whole north-coast roster together. On value, the two-stop full-day tour below is the relaxed option if you would rather not rush, with free cancellation confirmed and hotel pickup included.

If instead you want the maximum-coverage day, the three strongest Yehliu-reaching options sit here:

The questions below cover the fee itself, the concession and free-entry rules, the fine schedule, the opening hours and the last-entry policy, all answered from the geopark's own official ticket page. Read these before you queue at the gate, because the answers are short and every one of them changes what you pay or when you should arrive.

Common Questions About The Yehliu Geopark Entrance Fee

How Much Is The Entrance Fee In Yehliu Geopark?

NT$120 for a general adult, NT$60 for concession holders, NT$96 per person for a general group of 30 or more, and NT$48 per person for a student group of 30 or more. Children under 6 and several other listed categories, including disability certificate holders with one companion, enter free.

Is the Yehliu entrance fee included in day tours from Taipei?

Usually not. Only the Yehliu, Jiufen, Shifen and Pineapple Cake DIY day tour states in its own listing that tickets are included. For every other tour, check the operator's live listing before booking, and budget NT$120 per adult to pay at the gate.

What happens if you climb on the rocks at Yehliu?

The park's own page lists a fine of up to NT$500,000 for climbing on or damaging the formations, plus restoration costs, and up to NT$5,000,000 more if the damage cannot be repaired. Crossing the safety line alone draws NT$5,000 to NT$1,000,000.

What time does Yehliu Geopark close, and when is the last entry?

The park is open 08:00 to 17:00 year-round and 08:00 to 18:00 in summer. The last ticket and last entry are at the closing hour itself, not before it, which is later than most Taiwanese parks allow.

Who gets into Yehliu Geopark for free?

Children under 6, Wanli District residents with ID, disability certificate holders plus one companion or necessary carer, licensed guides and tour leaders with credentials, volunteer honour card holders, and anyone on official duty. Carry proof, because status is checked at the gate.

Can you fly a drone at Yehliu Geopark?

No. The park is a no-fly zone, with fines from NT$300,000 to NT$1,500,000 under the Civil Aviation Act. Only government bodies, schools and legal persons on official business may apply for permission.