Many popular and spectacular hiking tracks of the Blue Mountains continue to be closed to public access. This is chronic. NPWS, aka Parks Service, blames heavy rainfall weather of recent years, rather than its lack of best practice hiking track design. The Blue Mountains National Park is world heritage listed after all and Parks Service is supposed to be its […]
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Perennial Question to the Parks Service: “Why pay for an Eco-Pass when most Blue Mountains tracks are closed for years?” ‘Current Alerts in this Area’ [NPWS Last reviewed: Wed 16 November 2022, 4.12pm] [SOURCE: Extracts: ^https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/katoomba-area/local-alerts] Closed areas: Parts of Blue Mountains National Park • The following tracks are closed Thursday 17 November for a helicopter operation to deliver […]
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Leading Blue Mountains environmentalist Keith Muir has called the shutdown of the Blue Mountains National Park a gross “overreaction” by the Parks Service, akin to closing all beaches along the 2000km New South Wales coastline after a fatal shark attack such as at Little Bay on 16th February 2022. That didn’t happen. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) management […]
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Yesterday the New South Wales Parks Service decided to blanketly close the entire Blue Mountains National Park of some 2690 km2 indefinitely. The huge area extends pretty much from Bilpin to Kanangra and from Warragamba Dam to Mount Victoria. The reason for the blacket closure is simply the likelihood of well, rain. What? Rain in the Blue Mountains? Who would […]
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Tragically again, two more people have been killed by a landslip in the Jamison Valley just south of the village of Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains. Yesterday, Monday 4th April 2022, a group of tourists (a family of five from Britain) embarked on an unguided day hike along the Wentworth Pass loop track. They likely followed the UK-based website […]
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Popes Glen Bushland Reserve is located on the eastern bushland outskirts of the village of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, which is situated about 110km due west of Sydney’s CBD. This reserve re-opened in March 2022 after more than two years of being closed off to the travelling public by a New South Wales state government emergency decree. This governmental […]
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Blue Mountain’s Council Mayor Mark Greenhill has presided over perpetual hiking track closures since February 2020, and it’s nearly two years on. Leura Cascades was closed in February 2020 during a known and predictable La Niña period heavy rainfall weather pattern which deluged the east coast of New South Wales including the Blue Mountains region. Substandard stormwater drainage brought on a […]
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