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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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Continue reading »(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 […]
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Nature Trail offers insightful and comprehensive morning and afternoon tours of the key features and valued local knowledge of villages of the Central Upper Blue Mountains. Blue Mountains villages are not suburbs. Established since the 19th Century, the villages of Upper Blue Mountains from Wentworth Falls to Hartley feature attractive countryside character, each with its own distinctive personable charm, and […]
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It was after much planning, preparation and investment that last Saturday 2nd September 2017 with great pleasure, Nature Trail was finally launched. Invited to the rather informal morning tea at Nature Trail Base were Anna, Annette, Geoff, Ivan, Phillip and local historian John Low OAM. John arrived from his new home in Portland and good local friends supportive of the […]
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Today following personal encouragement from business coach Chris Borrett (left), I have decided to proceed to launch my business venture, Nature Trail – guided bushwalking tours into the beautiful and wild Blue Mountains around where I live. Publishing this website today is the unassuming launch. ‘Phase 1’ shall kick off from September 2017, initially non-commercial as an informal undertaking, inviting […]
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OUR VERY FIRST TOUR Tour Title: Mountains Gardens & Nurseries Tour Code: GN-MGN Date: Saturday, 1st Feb 2014 Trip Start Time: 10am Trip Finish Time: 2pm APPROX Trip Type: Morning with Gourmet Lunch Trip Category: Practice Trip Walk Distance/Grade: <100m /Super Easy Transport Distance: nil Catering: […]
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Full Day Tour Super Easy Gourmet Lunch Tour Price $300 per guest Overview: A very private small group tour exploring selected formal private gardens of the Upper Blue Mountains. Local home owners show us around their private gardens and we head off to various local nurseries. We chat over lunch at magnificent Everglades Garden and have a wonder through […]
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