Road to Taipei Chinshan's two fishing ports, Huang-kang and Shuiwei, are known for their snapper, red tuna, and small-squid catches. To get the fish to the Taipei market while still fresh and worth top dollar prices, the Japanese built the old fishing road in 1903. Called Chinpaoli Avenue at the time, it stretched through four kilometers of the mountainous terrain between Chinshan and Taipei.
魚路古道搶鮮金山鄉境內有「磺港」與「水尾」兩座漁港，以加納魚、紅鮪魚、小卷等最為名貴，為了運輸新鮮漁獲到台北都會區賣得好價錢，日本明治 36 年（1903 年），闢建「魚路古道」（古稱「金包里大路」），從磺港到今天的陽明山擎天崗，再轉赴台北的士林、大龍峒、大稻埕等地。