Wentworth Falls Archives

Grand Cliff Top Walk Trail (MT-GCT)

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

(A) Ribbon Cutting Background: On Monday 25th March 2024, the historic 1930s ‘Prince Henry Cliff Walk‘ track, after being mostly repaired, upgraded, extended in a joint tourism infrastructure project by NPWS (Parks Service) and BMCC Blue Mountains {city} Council over about four years, was officially and publicly launched. But the red ribbon was publicly ceremoniously cut before this trail was […]

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

This Trail Segment 1: Specifications: This Nature Trail Tour Title: Grand Cliff Top Walk Trek NT Tour Code: MT-GCT/1 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 partial closure, with roadway detour Nature Trail Version: Grand Cliff Top Walk – Original […]

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

(A) Brief Background (B) Trail Segment Introduction (C Trail Segment Introduction (D) Trail Segment Introduction (E) Trail Segment Introduction (F) Trail Segment Introduction (G) Trail Segment Introduction (Content TBA) References and Further Reading: [1] [2] This webpage updated 31-July-2025.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]