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MT-GCT Grand Cliff Top Walk Trek

July 5, 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, Katoomba, Leura, Multi-Day Treks, Recce, Spring, Summer, Tour Yarns, Wentworth Falls, Winter

Trail Specifications: Nature Trail Tour Title: Grand Cliff Top Walk Trek NT Tour Code: MT-GCT NT Tour Code Description: Multi-Day Trek Tour Category Tailored Trail Official Opening Date: Monday 25th March 2024 Tour Current Status: Scouted> Recce > Practised > Commercial Trail Title: Grand Cliff Top Walk Trail Hike Length: 24 km Starting Location: Katoomba Railway Station Finishing Location Wentworth […]

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

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 Parks Service’s (NPWS) March 2024 public opening launch of its new concept ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk‘ in the Australian Blue Mountains, was […]

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

July 5, 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, Katoomba, Leura, Multi-Day Treks, Recce, Review, Spring, Summer, Tour Yarns, Wentworth Falls, 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

Nature Trail in June-July 2025 is currently reconnoitring the ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk‘ trail concept as launched by local government on 25th March 2024 (official PR photo below). As an option for offering potential hiking tour options along this trail, Nature Trail is currently ‘ground-truthing’ the recent upgrades to this old trail. We are previously well familiar with the tracks along […]

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

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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

Nature Trail has specially selected this trail segment of the 2024 Grand Cliff Top Walk trail because it is has a relatively medium grade hike (yet with still many staircases up and down) which may be undertaken in a manageable half-day duration, yet by only hiking-fit adults and teenagers, but not sensibly for infants/toddlers nor anyone disabled. This trail segment […]

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

On Friday morning 4th July 2025, Friends of Nature Trail chose our recce of this particular segment of the Grand Cliff Top Walk from west of Leura Cascades Picnic Reserve to Echo Point Lookout. This is because currently Leura Cascades Picnic Reserve is closed for council upgrade, plus a recent landslip on Round Track has close the track route as […]

Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ Our Critique – SEGMENT 6: Echo Point Lookout to Reid’s Plateau

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Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ Our Critique – SEGMENT 7: Reid’s Plateau to Explorers Marked Tree

(Content TBA) The following map sourced from Google Maps shows what is a current trail route extension from Scenic World to the Explorers Marks Tree, being the official starting point for the heritage Six Foot Track. The trail continues for the most part following the cliff top of the Jamison Escarpment. It rails Cliff Drive from Scenic World to […]