The Yellow River Park is located not far from Zhengzhou city, about 28km northwest, and is backed by a beautiful mound called the Yue Hill. Today this region has been set up as a leisure park, centered around the hill's Wulong Peak, and is dotted with Chinese pavilions and terraces. The peak itself is the best place to view the river, as it slows up in the last valley before running into the vast East China plain. The slowing down of the current here has led, over many thousands of years, to the deposition of silt and mud and the rising of the river bed, so that today the river flows at a level much higher that the area around, on built up (some artificially) banks. This is quite a view.

The park is also littered with statues and memorials to the heroes and legends of the river region, and it serves as a reminder of the importance of the river as both a nurturer of Chinese civilization, and also its frequent destroyer. At the foot of the hill is a statue of a mother and son that is meant to represent the great mutual affection that the river and the people of China hold. The Yueshan temple is probably the best of the sights here, within which there is a statue of the "Great Yu", the legendary king of ancient China. Most prominent of the statues, however,has to be the 100m tall statue of the emperor's Yan and Huang, who were both believed to be of Henan origin.