As someone who picked up motorcycling as a hobby recently, 北橫 is my top choice for a leisurely ride. I often ride out from Taoyuan to Lalashan, then ride west to 內灣 before ending my ride back in Taoyuan. The scenery and various mountain dams are splendid! It is a little bit sad to see a decline in the amount of businesses present on top of 拉拉山. Some of the previously operating cafe no longer serves coffee due to a lack of visitors. I wholly encourage those who live on the northern Taiwan to visit Lalashan!!
Small Taiwan beautiful but big country china messy mainland gave more to learn from small Taiwan in order to gain respect n be like by others. Building so many dams n ugly concrete buildings in the end no takers n become ghost town n wasting resources causing unnecessary climate change that affected innocent people basic livelihood.