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Nature Trail logo mate shot by Blue Mountains Council

July 11, 2025 2025, 7-Day, Autumn, Blue Mountains Council Bushland, Blue Mountains National Park, Concept, Experienced Adult Hikers, Half-Day Tour (about 5 hours), Healthy & Fit Adults, Jamison Valley, Katoomba, Leura, Multi-Day Treks, Spring, Summer, Tour Yarns, Tour Yarns, Wentworth Falls, Winter

Since 2018 and prior, Nature Trail’s business logo has been plagiarised by government, tweaked with a few variations to our artwork… Nature Trail’s creative artwork thus: The Blue Mountains Council in 2024 then nicked our concept artwork design for its $13 million externally funded concept trail… Grand Cliff Top Walk wayfinding signage, thus: In doing so, Blue Mountains Council shot […]

MT-GCT Grand Cliff Top Walk Trek

July 5, 2025 Autumn, Experienced Adult Hikers, Healthy & Fit Adults, Katoomba, Leura, Multi-Day Treks, Spring, Summer, Wentworth Falls, Winter

Our Tour Overview: With this particularly newly upgraded trail (2024), Nature Trail as adopted its own unique approach to offering it as a potential hiking tour at this early stage. We initially consider it to be a new hiking concept of variable forest trek experience from Katoomba to Wentworth Falls. It’s overall length is over at least 20 km […]

Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ – a misleading promotional article

July 5, 2025 2025, 7-Day, Autumn, Concept, Experienced Adult Hikers, Half-Day Tour (about 5 hours), Healthy & Fit Adults, Katoomba, Leura, Spring, Summer, Tour Yarns, Tour Yarns, Wentworth Falls, Winter

This 19+km trek is officially promoted equivalent to a proverbial ‘walk in the park’ as being do-able in just 2-days… like ‘easy peasy’? Yet, from our on-ground hiking experience of this trail, it seriously is anything but! The (NPWS) Parks Service’s March 2024 public opening launch of its new concept ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk‘ in the Australian Blue Mountains, […]

Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ – Misleading Flyer & Press Release

July 5, 2025 2025, 7-Day, Blue Mountains Council Bushland, Blue Mountains National Park, Experienced Adult Hikers, Multi-Day Treks, Recce, Review, Tour Yarns, Winter

In the Australian Blue Mountains, during the cooler months of June and July 2025, Nature Trail’s Tour Director, Steve Ridd, has decided to undertake a series of segmented practice reconnoitre trips (‘recces’) of the recently and mostly upgraded and renamed amalgamated hiking tracks branded the ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk‘. This track is situated in the central upper Blue Mountains Region, […]

Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ Our Critique – SEGMENT 1: Wentworth Falls Railway Station to Conservation Hut

July 5, 2025 2025, 7-Day, Blue Mountains National Park, Experienced Adult Hikers, Multi-Day Treks, Recce, Tour Yarns, Tour Yarns

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Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ Our Critique – SEGMENT 2: Conservation Hut to Fairmont Resort

July 5, 2025 Uncategorized

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Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ Our Critique – SEGMENT 3: Fairmont Resort to Gordon Falls Picnic Reserve

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Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ Our Critique – SEGMENT 4: Gordon Falls Picnic Reserve to Leura Cascades Picnic Reserve

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Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ Our Critique – SEGMENT 5: Leura Cascades Picnic Reserve to Echo Point Lookout

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On Friday morning 4th July 2025, we chose our recce of this particular segment of the Grand Cliff Top Walk from Leura Cascades Picnic Reserve to Echo Point Lookout. The above vista is conveniently accessible on a short side track off Grand Cliff Top Walk trail. However, in frustration we discovered that Leura Cascades is still completely closed off to the […]