Dushanzi East Lake Park is located at No. 24 Changling Road, Dushanzi District. Covering an area of 14.7 hectares, it is a comprehensive park primarily focused on education, publicity, and recreational leisure. The park is divided into six functional zones: the animal zone, water recreation area, quiet rest area, amusement facilities area, monument area, and production & garden service area. It is…
Located 3 kilometers south of Dushanzi urban area on the west side of National Highway 217. In 1897, primitive oil extraction began in Dushanzi. According to the "Xinjiang Gazetteer": "In order to increase fiscal revenue and resist the dumping of foreign oil, the Xinjiang local government purchased an oil drilling machine from Russia in 1909, transported it to Dushanzi, and started digging oil wells. The wells were seven to eight zhang deep..."
The Dushanzi Cultural Center is located at No. 24 Daqing East Road, Dushanzi District. It is a national AAA-level tourist attraction, with a total construction area of approximately 48,000 square meters, and is one of the iconic buildings in Dushanzi District. The cultural center consists of three functional buildings, A, B, and C, arranged from west to east. The Science and Technology Museum within the cultural center has a construction area of 7,996.6…
Black Oil Mountain is located in the northeastern part of Karamay, more than two kilometers from the city center. It is an important area where oil seeps naturally occur, forming a cluster of asphalt mounds due to years of crude oil overflow. The largest mound stands 13 meters high and covers an area of 0.2 square kilometers, containing high-value low pour-point crude oil. The name “Karamay” in Uyghur means “black oil,” hence this site...
Dushanzi Grand Canyon is located southwest of Dushanzi, more than 30 kilometers from the city center. As a natural and pristine tourism resource, it remains largely undeveloped, with existing roads or paths leading down to the canyon floor or along the canyon shoulders. The canyon was formed when the Kuqa River water rushed out of the Tianshan Mountains and carved through the gently sloping plains southwest of Dushanzi, creating this remarkable geological wonder. The canyon runs roughly north-south…
Tianshan Ski Resort is located 12 kilometers south of Dushanzi District on the east side of National Highway 217. It features beginner, intermediate, and advanced ski runs as well as a snow tubing lane. The resort offers skiing equipment such as alpine skis, snowboards, sleds, and snow tubes, along with a powered magic carpet lift. There is also a restaurant on-site. Address: 12 kilometers south of Dushanzi District on the east side of National Highway 217…
Alashan Hot Springs is located 40 kilometers southwest of Dushanzi District. With beautiful scenery and lush vegetation, hot springs gush year-round in the valley. The water temperature exceeds 40°C and contains over ten types of mineral trace elements, offering notable therapeutic effects for conditions such as skin diseases and arthritis. It has long been praised as “smooth hot spring water washing silky skin.” Back in the 1940s…
Located southwest of Karamay city proper and accessible via National Highway 217, it is about 2 kilometers from downtown Karamay. It is a typical natural scenic area featuring desert landforms and also serves as a leisure and entertainment tourism destination. Western Gobi Park combines natural scenery with cultural attractions and consists of two main scenic zones: Tuzigou and Ayikule. Covering an area of 45 square kilometers, the park...
Introduction: Located on the southern edge of the Gurbantünggüt Desert in the Junggar Basin, this is a vast, primitive, and rugged desert landscape, as well as a natural desert botanical garden. It features lush saxaul, dense populus euphratica, fragrant jujube trees, graceful three-awn grass with feathery leaves, aesthetically unique sow thistle, medicinally valuable rhubarb, large...
Introduction: Karamay Jiulong Pool is the source of the Karamay River, located within the Eastern Suburbs Waterfall Scenic Area—the starting point of the Karamay River Urban Scenic Belt. The scenic area mainly consists of an approximately 8-meter-high artificial waterfall, a large pool beneath the waterfall, and surrounding vast greenbelts and lawns. The waterfall’s water source comes from the rapid flow of the Fengke Canal…
Primitive Populus euphratica Forest The Populus euphratica forest is a magnificent creation of nature. Just as the desert ecosystem gave rise to the uniquely adapted camel, it also produced the uniquely adapted Populus euphratica tree. It resists heat, cold, wind, sand, alkali, drought, and poor soil. It is the only arbor in the central Asian inland deserts and represents an extraordinary type of forest that has evolved in arid regions...
Desert International Golf Course Desert International Golf Course is a national AA-level scenic spot. Located southeast of Karamay city center and on the west side of Yingbin Road, it is the city's first international-standard golf course. The course opened on October 1, 2003. Covering an area of 1 square kilometer, it is an international-standard 18...
Karamay No. 1 Well, abbreviated as “K1 Well,” is the first oil well drilled in the Karamay Oilfield, hence its name. After the founding of New China, from 1951 to 1955, the state sent multiple geological survey teams to conduct explorations near Black Oil Hill. On June 6, 1955, a drilling team from Dushanzi...
Jurassic Ski Resort is located in the northeastern part of Karamay City, just 2 kilometers from the city center. It is a fully equipped winter ice and snow tourism destination. The resort features three ski runs for beginners, intermediates, and advanced skiers, two 300-meter-long tow lifts, and facilities including the “Standard Snow God” snowmaking machine...
Athena Comprehensive Swimming Pool The Athena Comprehensive Swimming Pool is a national AA-level tourist attraction. Located in the southern part of Karamay city, it is 2 kilometers from the city center. It is a tourist destination and indoor leisure and entertainment venue that integrates competitions, water play, physiotherapy, massage, sauna, fitness equipment, games, tropical plant viewing, dining, and more...
The Ecological Leisure and Fitness Park in Karamay Creating myths is second nature to the people of Karamay. Amid the cheers of oil gushing from the ancient wilderness, they built the most habitable city on the Gobi Desert, then went further to turn those myths into wonders—channeling crystal-clear water from afar to nourish the heart of the city...
Culture Street in Karamay District is a cultural-themed street creatively planned, designed, and invested in by the Karamay District Government. Completed in January 2001, it is located in the city center of Karamay, stretching from the Training Gymnasium of the Municipal Sports Bureau in the west to the intersection of Hongxing Road and Linyuan Road in the east. The street is 1,065 meters long and 50–70 meters wide, covering a total area of 70,000 square...
Karamay River Scenic AreaThe Karamay River, also known as the "River Through the City," enters the urban area from the northeast, starting at the Jiulongtan Scenic Area. The river winds through the city and flows into the Ayikule Reservoir in the southwest, spanning a total length of 8.51 kilometers, with a width of 15 meters and a water depth of 1.8 to 2.3 meters. The Karamay River is a divine stream that brings greenery and vitality to this oil city plagued by water scarcity...
Ayikule (West Moon Lake) Scenic Area, located in the southwest of Karamay City and just 2 kilometers from the city center, is an artificial scenic tourism area primarily designed for leisure, entertainment, and sightseeing. Ayikule has a maximum water surface area of 4.04 square kilometers and a total storage capacity of 38 million cubic meters...
Oasis Ecological Park is located in the agricultural development zone, covering an area of nearly 2,000 acres. The first phase of the ecological restaurant was completed and put into use in August 2011. The ecological restaurant features luxurious facilities, with a large outdoor rockery standing 36 meters high and a large indoor rockery reaching 12 meters. Utilizing unique architectural design, it...