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Blue Mountains National Park Description
247,000ha.

The Blue Mountains National Park, established in 1959, is a region of impressive mountain scenery. There are three sections.
Hobbies & Activities category: National park;  Scenic site or route;  UNESCO World Heritage Site
Blue Mountains National Park Highlights

Bush Walking

In the Blue Mountains there are numerous walking trails of varying degrees of difficulty leading to the main features of interest and viewpoints, as well as cycle tracks and bridle paths.

Extension to Southern Section Warragamba Reservoir

This section extends from south of Katoomba to the Wom-beyan Caves (Mittagong) and from Lake Burragorang (Warragamba Reservoir) to the Great Dividing Range. It merges into Kanangra Boyd National
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Katoomba

Katoomba (pop. 13,070) is a highly developed tourist center in the Blue Mountains which draws some three million visitors every year. Along with the smaller neighboring towns of Wentworth and Leura
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Cliff Drive

Cliff Drive follows the cliff tops round Katoomba and Leura, with spectacular views and many picnic spots.

Walking trails along the cliff tops and into Jamison valley runs through rain forest and
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Explorers' Tree

The Explorers' Tree, west of Katoomba, commemorates Gregory Blaxland, Henry Lawson and William Wentworth, who were the first to travel through the mountains. There are many lookouts with views of
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Norman Lindsay Gallery

The house in Springwood occupied by the painter Norman Lindsay from 1912 to 1969 is now a museum, with a collection of the artist's works.

The grounds of the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum
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Scenic Railway

Scenic World offers travelers the chance to experience the forests of the Blue Mountains through rides on the steepest railway in the world and on the only horizontal cable car in Australia
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Scenic Railway

The scenic railway runs down into Jamison valley, with an average gradient of 45 degrees.

The descent will take passengers through a cliff side tunnel into an ancient rainforest.

Scenic Skyway

The Scenic Skyway is a cableway which runs horizontally across the mountain gorge above Cooks Crossing, with impressive views of Katoomba Falls, Orphan Rock and Jamison valley. The cableway was
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Three Sisters

Close to Katoomba is the best-known tourist sight in the Blue Mountains, the striking rock formations known as the Three Sisters, which are floodlit at night. Legend has it that they are three sisters who were bewitched and turned to stone.

Surroundings

From Katoomba the highway continues to Lithgow (40km) by way of Medlow Bath, Blackheath, Mount Victoria and Hartley, an important stopover for travelers in early colonial days which preserves a
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Northern Section Grose Valley

Situated on the north side of the Great Western Highway, this section of Blue Mountains National Park extends from Springwood to Mount Victoria, with magnificent panoramic views and attractive
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Southern Section Glenbrook

Extending on the south side of the Great Western Highway from Glenbrook to the Wentworth Falls (Katoomba), this section of the park takes in the low hills which rise out of the Cumberland Plains to the west of Sydney.
Address
Blue Mountains Heritage Centre
Box 43
Blackheath, NSW 2785
Australia
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/contact/Blackheath.htm
Cost
Adult$7.00
All values are in local currency (Dollar).
Tips
Admission cost is per vehicle per day.
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