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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

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

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’ Our Critique – SEGMENT 4: Gordon Falls Picnic Reserve to Leura Cascades Picnic Reserve

July 5, 2025 2025, 7-Day, Blue Mountains Council Bushland, Blue Mountains National Park, Healthy & Fit Adults, Jamison Valley, Leura, Multi-Day Treks, Recce, Tour Yarns, Winter

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 Village Tours

September 7, 2019 Blackheath, Favourite Road Touring, Full Day Tour (7 to 9 hours), Half-Day Tour (about 5 hours), Healthy & Fit Adults, Katoomba, Leura, Medlow Bath, Mount Victoria, Mountains Village Tour, Public Transport, Tag-Along Standard Vehicle, Touring Vehicle - Range Rover, Villages Touring and Walking, Wentworth Falls

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 […]

Everglades Sorensen Gardens

August 23, 2018 Full Day Tour (7 to 9 hours), Gardens & Nurseries Tour, Healthy & Fit Adults, Leura, Public Tour, Villages Touring and Walking

Tour Title: Everglades and Sorensen Gardens Tour Code: GN-ESG Tour Type: Full Day Guided Walking Tour with Catering Departs/Returns: Katoomba Starts: 9am Finishes: 4pm (approx) Tour Overview: A special interest boutique full day walking tour exploring heritage listed Everglades Gardens and House in the garden village of Leura. We are guided by an expert site guide and horticulturalist around the […]

Jan: Shakespeare in the Garden

May 12, 2018 2019, Art & Craft Trail, Full Day Tour (7 to 9 hours), Gardens & Nurseries Tour, Healthy & Fit Adults, Leura, Mountains Magic, Summer, Tag-Along Standard Vehicle, Touring Vehicle - Range Rover, Tours to Country Festivals, Villages Touring and Walking

http://www.sportforjove.com.au/theatre-festival/the-leura-shakespeare-festival

Oct: Mountains Gardens on Show

May 3, 2018 2018, Full Day Tour (7 to 9 hours), Gardens & Nurseries Tour, Healthy & Fit Adults, Leura, Spring, Tag-Along Standard Vehicle, Touring Vehicle - Range Rover, Tours to Country Festivals, Villages Touring and Walking

https://leuragardensfestival.com.au/

Jamison Escarpment Spectacular

September 25, 2017 2017, Friends of Nature Trail, Jamison Valley, Leura, Tour Yarns

The forecast was for a warm windy day, so what better than to explore the shady dells below the Jamison Valley escarpment along the edge of Leura village. A small personable party of three, we passed through heath and native herbs, peas and myrtles flowering in spring this time of year. Cracked seed pods of the Hakea bushes lay across […]

Blue Mountains Private Tours in Winter 2014

June 4, 2014 2014, Friends of Nature Trail, Gardens & Nurseries Tour, Leura, Practice Trip, Villages Touring and Walking, Winter

Nature Trail Practice Tours in Winter 2014 TRIP 02 Tour Title: Everglades and Sorensen Gardens Tour Code: GN-ESG Date: Wednesday, 4th Jun 2014 Trip Start Time: 10am Trip Finish Time: 2pm APPROX Trip Type: Morning with Gourmet Lunch Trip Category: Practice Trip Walk Distance/Grade: <1km / Easy […]

Tour – Mountains Gardens & Nurseries GN-MGN

February 1, 2014 Autumn, Friends of Nature Trail, Full Day Tour (7 to 9 hours), Gardens & Nurseries Tour, Healthy & Fit Adults, Katoomba, Leura, Public Tour, Spring, Tag-Along Standard Vehicle, Touring Vehicle - Range Rover, Villages Touring and Walking, Wentworth Falls

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 […]