Because it is a specially protected mountain reservation, visitors must register twice at the government office, and service facilities are nonexistent, without even a restaurant or noodle stand.
可惜交通不便、加上屬山地管制區，外人入山得先在戶籍所在地的警務單位辦甲種入山證（入山證分甲、乙二種，乙種只要入山前登記身分證即可），到當地再受檢，頗為麻煩。因此，當地遊人稀少。而鄉人其實也不準備提供遊客服務。整個霧台鄉，甚至找不到飯館、麵店。