Grand Cliff Top Walk Trail (MT-GCT)

(AUTHOR’S NOTE TO READERS:  This article is a work in progress.  We continue to update it and in the process will attempt to facilitate more convenient webbook style navigation of the content.  This is not part of our ‘Mountains Drums’ blog, and not one of our ‘Tour Yarns’. Rather, this is our Tour Director’s trek review of this new integrated […]

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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 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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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 ‘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 […]

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