Ugjong Peak

Overview

Ugjong Peak is a hill in Barangay Limocon, Valencia, offering views across Valencia’s rolling terrain toward surrounding municipalities. The site draws campers, hikers, and cyclists who use it as both a destination and a route point within the municipality’s highland network.

A small wooden cottage sits partway up the slope and serves as a rest stop for trekkers making the ascent. The peak is identified by the local government as one of Valencia’s ecotourism assets with potential to expand the municipality’s outdoor recreation offer.

The nearby Kabotbot Hills form a related feature in the same barangay area, and the peak is part of a loose highland cluster that includes Banderahan Peak elsewhere in the municipality.

Valencia’s terrain runs hilly across most of its interior, elevation climbing from roughly 50 to 250 metres between the lowland barangays and the higher ridges, giving spots like Ugjong Peak noticeably cooler evenings than Bohol’s coastal towns. That elevation is also what makes the peak useful as a lookout — on a clear day the sightline runs past Valencia’s own rolling farmland toward Tagbilaran Bay, tying the hilltop view directly to the municipality’s identity as inland hill country rather than a coastal destination.

Location

Barangay Limocon, Valencia, Bohol. Valencia is approximately 12 km south of Tagbilaran City in the Bohol interior. Unlike Bohol’s coastal fishing towns, Valencia’s economy runs on upland farming — rice, corn, and root crops worked across the same rolling terrain the peak looks out over.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, take a jeepney or habal-habal toward Valencia. Barangay Limocon is within the municipality. The peak is accessible on foot from the barangay — ascent time and trail condition will vary by season. Confirm the exact trailhead location and approximate ascent time locally — the Valencia tourism office or Barangay Limocon residents can point the way. A guide isn’t strictly required on the main trail but can be useful for first-time visitors.

Practical Info

• Open to hikers, campers, and cyclists
• Wooden rest cottage available on the slope
• Entrance and camping fees, if any, along with current rules on overnight camping and the best approach route, should be confirmed with the barangay or Valencia tourism office beforehand. Water availability on the trail isn’t documented, so it’s worth bringing your own

What to Expect

A highland viewpoint with open sightlines over rolling hills. The landscape is consistent with Bohol’s interior terrain — grassy ridges, patches of secondary forest, and distant views of lowland areas and coastal municipalities on clear days. The wooden cottage provides a basic rest point. The site is informal in character — a working ecotourism site rather than a fully developed attraction.

Economic Context

The land around Ugjong Peak is farmed, not set aside as parkland — rice, corn, and root crops worked by smallholder households across the same rolling terrain the peak looks out over. Hikers, campers, and cyclists using the peak are moving through active farmland and barangay roads rather than a managed trail system, which is part of why facilities stay basic: there’s no visitor economy here built around the peak specifically, and the wooden rest cottage is the extent of dedicated infrastructure. The municipal government’s interest in developing the site sits within a broader push to give Valencia’s agricultural interior a second income stream beyond farming, one it shares with several other identified sites across the municipality.

Notes

• Valencia’s ecotourism network also includes Danao Lake, Cabjawan Cave, Anislag Spring, and Ughob Cave — multi-site day itineraries are practical from Tagbilaran.