StopsDoi Inthanon

ดอยอินทนนท์

The highest ground in Thailand, and cold enough at the top to surprise you.

Chestnut-tailed Minla (Minla strigula), Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai, Thailand

JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 3.0

18.5885, 98.4867 · 2565 m · The circuit is drawn from OpenStreetMap ways tagged Route 107, 1095 and 108: 598.0 km, of which 6.5% is bridged in a straight line where the route number is not tagged. © OpenStreetMap contributors · relief Open-Meteo / Copernicus DEM

What it is

2,565 metres, in Chom Thong district, reached from Route 108 or from Mae Chaem over Route 1088. Not on the loop; one turn off it.

The long version

The summit is the highest point in Thailand and sits in a national park. The road up is sealed the whole way and steep in places.

Inference — on this circuit it is a decision about a day rather than about a mountain. Clockwise it lands near the end, at Chom Thong, when you are nearly home and tired; counter-clockwise it lands on day one, when you are fresh but have a long way to go. Either way it is a full extra day to do properly, and a rushed half-day gets you a car park in cloud.

A rider coming over the 1263 cut can reach it from the Mae Chaem side on Route 1088, which is the quieter approach.

Polyptychus trilineatus - Dorsal side
Collection of the Mathematician Laurent Schwartz — Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0

Polyptychus trilineatus - △ Ventral side
Collection of the Mathematician Laurent Schwartz — Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0

Himalayan Bluetail (Tarsiger rufilatus), Doi Inthanon National Park, Ban Luang, Chiang Mai, Thailand — JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Stay 81

Numbered: the beds listed below. Dots: the rest. Cross: the distance is measured from here. · © OpenStreetMap

1 บ้านสวนบนดอยสูง lodge0.2 km by road +66857150443 Facebook map
2 Collection O The Singha chiangmai Hotel hotel0.9 km straight line +66825564466 Facebook map
3 บ้านสวนแม่กลางหลวง hotel3.2 km straight line own site +66904719619 Facebook map
4 รักเขาอินทนนท์โฮมสเตย์ Rakkhao Inthanon Homestay and Camping lodge3.2 km straight line +66933140699 Facebook map
5 นาขั้นบันไดป่าบงเบียง hotel5.1 km by road own site +66820107717 Facebook map
6 บ้านพักเฮือนฮิมดอย นาขั้นบันได ตีนผา-ป่าบงเปียง แม่แจ่ม เชียงใหม่ lodge5.1 km by road +66910649733 Facebook map

All 81 beds

81 beds within 8 km: OpenStreetMap (2026-09-19) and Overture Places (release 2026-09-23.1, mostly Facebook business pages), one row where both name the same place. Distance runs over OpenStreetMap streets from the summit. Beds with a phone or site of their own come first. Not checked or endorsed; an absence here is an absence from those two maps.

Runs with

roadRoute 1088 — The quiet way up, from Mae Chaem.
legHot to Chiang Mai — The leg with the Chom Thong turn on it.
townMae Chaem — The town on the back side.

Named here by

legHot to Chiang Mai — The turn at Chom Thong, if there is a day left.
roadRoute 1088 — What it reaches.
townMae Chaem — The mountain on the other side.

Where each claim comes from

Field	Tier	Source	Note
default	cited	Doi Inthanon — Wikipedia (en)
text.story	cited	Doi Inthanon — Wikipedia (en)
text_th	inference		written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

Doi Inthanon — Wikipedia (en)
Chom Thong — Wikipedia (en)

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there