Taking the Mountain Lianhua Natio nal Nature Reserve in Gansu Province as its object and conducting the sample field investigation, this research was carried out with an attempt to study the recreational impact on vegetation in the Mountain Lianhua .Results show that in terms of the recreational impact on vegetation, the investigated sites are in the order of the Zixiao Palace >the Nature Reserve Administ ration >Tangfang Beach-Shahe Beach >the Lianhua Palace .Analysis shows that among the four investigated sites, the Zixiao Palace has a sharp difference compared with the others .As the research indicates, the recreational activities have caused some impacts on vegetation in some scenic sites and some parts in the Mountain Lianhua National Nature Rese rve, but the impact on the entire ecolog ical environment of the nature reserve is not much .