Abstract: Vegetation is an important ecological landscape element for mountain scenic spots. It is of great significance to study the dynamic change of vegetation coverage and its causing factors for the sustainable development of mountain scenic spots. The vegetation coverage research of mountain scenic areas was mainly focused on a single scenic area, while their general change rules were few investigated with a combination of long time series data, multiple impact factors, and comparative analysis of different scenic areas. We calculate the NDVIs of seven national mountain scenic areas of China to derive their vegetation coverage information based on the Landsat images during 1984-2018. Then the spatial-temporal changes of vegetation coverage in mountain scenic spots were estimated through the regression analysis, correlation analysis, and trajectory tracking of gravity centers. The results showed that the degradation trend of vegetation cover in most of the scenic spots and the phenomenon ofdegradation trend of vegetation cover along the tourist routes in all of the scenic spotsis obvious. The high vegetation coverage areas were the largest proportions of the scenic spots, and increased first and then decreased in most of them. Besides, the vegetation gravity centers trajectory of mountain scenic spots showed an obvious relationship with their climate zones, and the gravity center movements were similar in the same climate zone. In general, the major climatic driving factors of vegetation cover change were different in different climatic regions. The impact of yearly increasing passenger flow on vegetation cover is more complex.