Cable car · Nanping, China
长江索道 (Yangtze River Cableway)
长江索道 is a cable car near Nanping, China. It climbs 58 m over 1.17 km, from 222 m to 281 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 118 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
81/100 · Scary
By the numbers, 长江索道 is scarier than 81% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 55 of 374 in China.
- Highest above the ground: about 118 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 692 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.17 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 3°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 933 m of the 1.17 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 长江索道 is near Nanping, China, at 222 m above sea level (29.55556° N, 106.58980° E). From there it runs 1.17 km up to the top station at 281 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1987-10-24
- Capacity
- 1,000 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 80 people
- Ride time
- about 4 min
Nearby lines
- 南温泉索道 (South Hot Spring Cableway) gondola · 15.3 km away · rises 256 m
- 歌乐山索道 gondola · 15.3 km away · rises 311 m
- 礼嘉时光缆车 funicular · 16.6 km away · rises 105 m
- 缙云山索道 (Jinyun Cablecar) cable car · 35.7 km away · rises 455 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.