However, because there was a forest recreation park in the Alishan area to the west of Yushan, it was known worldwide that "Taiwan has a mountain called Alishan." By contrast, Yushan was deserted, but precisely because of this its precious virgin forest ecology was preserved.
而玉山西部阿里山區因設有森林遊樂區，「台灣有個阿里山」的聲名傳揚國際，玉山反倒相對寂寞，卻也因此留下了更寶貴的原始森林生態。