Our Trekking Tours
Nature Trail’s Trekking Tours are advanced hiking tours that extend beyond one full day’s duration into overnight bush camping. Typically, our trekking tours venture into serious remote wilderness of the Blue Mountains Region and beyond.
We divide these into two groupings:
- 2-Day Treks – up to 10km hilly trekking per day
- Multi-Day Treks – up to 10km hilly trekking per day) from 3 to 7 days
All these treks involve:
- Treks available only to advanced level experienced hikers who must be adults and aged under 65 years, and be of excellent health and fitness, with hike-seasoned legs fitness
- Participants must be self-sufficient in trekking skills, clothing, kit, shelter, food, drinking water and first aid.
- Applicants must first satisfy appropriate prerequisites and successfully complete our Trekking Alumni Registration process, which includes submitting a medical declaration and completed signing of a Nature Trail Trek Agreement form with terms and conditions.
- Remote wilderness hiking during daylight hours only
- Hike distance between 5km and maximum 10km per day
- Individual participant self-sufficient in backpack bush camping each night during trek
- Trek outline supplied to booked participants a week in advance
- Trek safety and instructional briefings provided at start, finish and throughout as required
What we offer:
- Restricted group numbers including Trek Leader: a safety minimum of 4, maximum of 7 participants
- A trekking route that we have designed and planned (navigated & waypointed) reconnoitered at least once, risk assessed and risk mitigated
- Participating trek group leadership, navigation (maps, compass and multiple GPS navigation devices), pre-selected safe campsites, remote group first aid kit & certified wilderness first aider, group kit support gear, applicant vetting, participant fully kit inspections before departure, trek details notification to the relevant authorities (NPWS and AMSA) group contingency support while en route – 24/7 satphone coms with NT Base, wilderness first aid, emergency communications, emergency evacuation management, weather and conditions pre-assessed.
- Transport transfers from Katoomba to trek start and finish
- Backup transfers from en route evacuation waypoints back to Katoomba in the event of an incident
- Public liability insurance
- Participant accident insurance
Our Pricing
- A flat AUD$100 per head per day (no GST)
- All days to be fully pre-paid a week before departure
2-Day Trekking Tours [2T]
| 2T-BGC Blue Gum Camp |
| 2T-LPR Lindeman Pass (Linda Falls to Roberts Pass) |
| 2T-CIC Cox’s Road Comet Inn |
| 2T-CRC Cox’s River Glamping |
| 2T-GCC Grand Canyon Camp |
| 2T-GWC Grose Wilderness Camp |
| 2T-KWP Kanangra Walls Panorama |
| 2T-MSC Mount Solitary Camp |
| 2T-MWW Mount Wilson & Wollongambe Camp |
| 2T-NGH Newnes Glow Worm Heritage |
| 2T-PAL Pierces Acacia Lockley |
| 2T-PRC Perrys Rodriguez Camp |
| 2T-SFC Six Foot Cox’s River Leg |
| 2T-SFJ Six Foot Jenolan Leg |
| 2T-SFM Six Foot Megalong Leg |
| 2T-SLH Secret Creek and Lithgow Heritage |
| 2T-VFB Victoria Falls Blue Gum Camp |
| 2T-WBC Western Blue Mountains Camp |
Multi-Day Trekking Tours [MT]
Our Multi-Day Treks extend throughout the Blue Mountains Region and beyond varying in duration from 3-Days to 7-Days.
We have prepared the following list of Multi-Day Treks, each of which over time we shall plan, research, reconnoitred and risk assess, before offering the particular trekking tour commercially.
Our Multi-Day Treks are available to super-fit hikers of proven experience, having advanced multi-day bush hiking skills, be trekking self-sufficient in clothing, food, and kit for the duration of each booked trek.
Applicants must first successfully complete two 2-Day Treks with Nature Trail to the Tour Director’s satisfaction.
Multi-Day Trekking Tour Options:
| MT-ARC Abercrombie River Trek |
| MT-BDC Bundonia Caves Trek |
| MT-BMT Blue Mountains Trek |
| MT-BTT Barrington Tops Trek |
| MT-CDT Cedar Valley Trek |
| MT-CRT Colo River Trek |
| MT-CVT Capertee Valley Trek |
| MT-DST Dunns Swamp Trek |
| MT-GBP Govetts Blue Gum |
| MT-GOS Gardens of Stone Trek |
| MT-GRN Goulburn River Trek |
| MT-GWE Grose Wilderness Epic |
| MT-IHT Ironmonger Hill Trek |
| MT-JRT Jenolan River Trek |
| MT-KBT Kanangra Boyd Trek |
| MT-KDT Kanangra Deep Trek |
| MT-KGT Katoomba to Goulburn Trek |
| MT-KKT Katoomba to Kanangra Trek |
| MT-KMT Katoomba to Mittagong Trek |
| MT-KTC Kanangra Thurat Creek Trek |
| MT-MCT Kanangra Mount Cloudmaker |
| MT-MGH Munghorn Gap Trek |
| MT-MGT Medlow Gap Trek |
| MT-MKP Medlow Kelpie Point |
| MT-MWX Mount Wilson and Wollongambe Explorer |
| MT-NPT Newnes Plateau Trek |
| MT-NWT Nattai Wilderness Trek |
| MT-NWV Newnes Wolgan Valley |
| MT-SFT Six Foot Track |
| MT-TLT Thirmere Lakes Trek |
| MT-TPT Three Peaks Trek |
| MT-TXT Trek Experience Training |
| MT-VWE Mount Victoria to Linden Epic |
| MT-WDM Wild Dog Mountains |
| MT-WEE Wollemi East Traverse Epic (12 day) |
| MT-WRT Warrumbungle Ranges Trek |
| MT-WSE Wollemi South Traverse Epic (18 day) |
| MT-WWT Wollemi Wilderness Trek |
| MT-YNT Yengo Trek |
