Before the Central Cross Island Highway was completed, only the local people--the East Sedeq group of the Atayal tribe, also known as the Taroko tribe--used the small paths through the mountains, going back and forth among little villages and hunting grounds, communing all year round with the special beauty of Taroko Gorge.
在中部橫貫公路尚未開通之前，唯有當地的泰雅族人（又稱東賽德克群、太魯閣族），利用山裡的小徑，往來各部落和獵場，終年與太魯閣峽谷奇景為伍。