Nature Trail logo mate shot by Blue Mountains Council

Since 2018 and prior, Nature Trail’s business logo has been plagiarised by government, tweaked with a few variations to our artwork… Nature Trail’s creative artwork thus: The Blue Mountains Council in 2024 then nicked our concept artwork design for its $13 million externally funded concept trail… Grand Cliff Top Walk wayfinding signage, thus: In doing so, Blue Mountains Council shot […]

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MT-GCT Grand Cliff Top Walk Trek

Our Tour Overview:   With this particularly newly upgraded trail (2024), Nature Trail as adopted its own unique approach to offering it as a potential hiking tour at this early stage.  We initially consider it to be a new hiking concept of variable forest trek experience from Katoomba to Wentworth Falls.  It’s overall length is over at least 20 km […]

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

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

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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Blue Mountains Private Tours in Winter 2018

Nature Trail Programme for Winter 2018 We are pleased to offer our Nature Trail Programme for the Autumn 2018 season below, exploring an eclectic mix of hiking tours as well as special interest tours – formal gardens, village heritage and local cultural experiences. Trip_Version Trip_ID Tour Code ……………Tour_Title……………… Day ….Date…. Recce 56 Nature Trail TAFE Presentation Wed 6-Jun-18 Recce 57 […]

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Grand Canyon Majesty – 8 hrs

Tour Title: Grand Canyon Majesty Tour Code: HK-GCM Tour Type: Full Day Guided Hiking Tour Tour Price: $200 pp Tour Times: Start at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba 7:30am.  Return to Katoomba 3:30pm approx.  Tour Duration: 8 hours approx. Transport: Our tour leader is a qualified coach captain driving our tour vehicle ‘Excalibur’ – our luxury P38 Range Rover HSE. […]

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Katoomba Falls to 3 Sisters: 1 hr

Tour Title: Katoomba Cascades to 3 Sisters Tour Code: HK-KPE Tour Type: Short Hiking Tour Tour Price: $20 pp Tour Times: Start at Katoomba Station 8:30am.  Return to Katoomba Station 10:00am approx.  Tour Duration: 1.5 hours approx. Transport: We go Eco and Low Cost.  We then we catch a local bus.  Use your Opal Card! Tour Overview: This is a […]

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Blue Mountains Private Tours in Winter 2014

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 […]

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