The only major road connecting to Wulai is Highway 9. Fushan, the most remote village in the township, has been cut off four times by landslips caused by typhoons, so that aid had to be flown in by helicopter.
烏來只有一條台九線，沒有其他聯外替代道路，最偏遠的福山村就有四次因颱風來襲、道路坍方而被「封村」的紀錄，只能靠直昇機空投物資救急。