Blue Mountains Travel Maps & Location Guides

Spring is a magnificent time to explore the Blue Mountains. Take to the trails on the back of a mountain bike. Learn to abseil or rock climb with an experienced guide or take a yoga or meditation course in the beautiful mountain setting. Discover the Blue Mountains You.. read more

For more information contact: Echo Point Visitor Information Centre Echo Point KATOOMBA Ph: 1300 653 408 Open: 9am to 5pm Daily (closed Christmas Day) read more

Grose Valley is at the heart of the Blue Mountains National Park, a short drive from Lithgow. It can be viewed from several lookouts from the road but the best way to experience the valley is to take a bushwalk down into the valley to the Blue Gum Forest.. read more

Underworld Exploration: Being underground draws on senses that you may not have experienced before. Imagine a maze of ancient limestone tunnels, subterranean rivers, and caverns richly draped with exotic mineral deposits. Aborigines first named the area.. read more

Westward from Katoomba stands the sheltered remains of the Marked Tree known as the Explorers Tree, reputed to have the carved initials of the Three Exploreres on it. read more

Near to Katoomba are the Katoomba Falls situated between the Three Sisters and the Scenic Railway, on the edge of the Jamison Valley. From the Reserve at the top there is a 1km circuit which provides spectacular views of the Falls, rainforest and bird life.. read more

Leura 1st Sunday Markets are held on the 1st Sunday of the month from 9.30am to 3.00pm at the Leura Public School, Great Western Highway, Leura. For more information contact: Echo Point Visitor Information Centre Echo Point KATOOMBA Ph: 1300 653 408.. read more

Aside from excellent opportunities for both canyoning and bushwalking, Lithogw's Zig Zag Railway is a spectacle in itself as the first ever railway link to western New South Wales, aside from the spectacular views its winding expedition takes in. Travel.. read more

The Katoomba Scenic Railway in the Blue Mountains is the steepest funicular railway in the world. It descends through sandstone cliffs for 415m at a gradient of 52 degrees, through a tunnel and down into a lush rainforested valley. The Scenic Railway was originally part.. read more

The lookout at Echo Point to the rock formation offers excellent photographic opportunities particularly for sunrise morning shots with the mist in the valley. read more

The Great Zig Zag Railway, the original rail line into the Lithgow Valley, was opened in 1869. The line was hailed as an engineering masterpiece of the 19th century. Today, the historic tourist railway, traverses the 7 1/2km track, operating steam trains.. read more

Lennox Bridge Mitchells Pass Road, Blaxland. Constructed in 1833, Lennox Bridge is the oldest bridge on the Australian mainland and the first scientifically structured stone arch bridge on the Australian mainland. Stone used in this convict-built structure.. read more

The small village of Bowenfels forms an outer suburb of the bustling industrial centre of Lithgow. The few remaining old buildings, now bypassed by a busy Great Western Highway. Bowenfels was the birthplace of settlement in the Lithgow valley, long before extensive beds.. read more

Many craft, antique and tea rooms through the area. read more

Many bushwalks start from this point, including the Three Sisters Walk and Giant Stairway. read more

Parkes, his first wife and two of his sons are buried in the cemetery he established. In 1933, Mr Joseph Jackson, MLA, donated 8 hectares of land to the council for a public park. This is known as the Prime Ministers Corridor of Oaks where all Prime Ministers.. read more

The name Glenbrook is the original name given by Sir John Jamison who, exploring the Nepean, sighted a pretty brook he presumed had its headwaters in the Prince Regents Glen at Wentworth Falls, hence the name Glenbrook. The name was later conferred to.. read more

When Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813 they found the grazing land they sought in what is now known as the Hartley Valley. Governor Macquarie named this fertile valley the 'Vale of Clwyd' after a valley of the same name in Wales.. read more

Appears to have taken its name from the large double storey building, built in the 1870s which became the dominant landmark in the vicinity. Hazelbrook House was on the south side of the railway line opposite the station. When the latter opened in 1884.. read more

The name Lapstone Hill was first given to the slope of the eastern escarpment in 1832 because of the number of water worn stones that resembled the stones cobblers held between their knees to beat the leather against. In 1964 the railway station was built.. read more

Originally known as '24 Mile Hollow', followed by 'Christmas Swamp'. When The Blue Mountains Inn was opened in 1848; the district also took the name 'Blue Mountain'. When a railway station was built in 1867 that too was Gazetted.. read more

Bull's Camp, named after Lt. John Bull, is situated between Linden and Woodford. At the rear of Bull's Camp are two cells cut out of rock (folklore has it that these were places of punishment) and a grooved stone, known as the "Flogging Stone".. read more

Little Hartley is a collection of properties in a rural setting and the most prominent landmarks are Rosedale, on the west side of the highway, and Meads Farm on the east side. read more

In the early 1900s Mark Foy purchased three properties on the cliff edge,including the Belgravia Hotel, and incorporated them into his hydropathic Sanatorium, the Hydro Majestic. Medlow bath had the bath added to it because of the therapeutic bath at the hydro majestic.. read more

Today the valley is used for farming, but tourism has increased since the historic Six Foot Track was restored. This track was marked out in the 19th century as a bridle trail from Katoomba to Jenolan Caves.The track begins at the Explorers' Tree.. read more

In 1897 Charles Robert Scrivener, a staff surveyor of the Lands Department, was given the job of surveying a road to the end of the Mount Wilson spur.He described the land there and located an approach across Bowen's creek, to Bell's Line of Road near Bilpin.. read more

Robert Hoddle (surveyor) and Allan Cunningham (botanist) crossed Mount Tomah in 1823. They made comprehensive records of the vegetation they found and pockets of the rainforest still exist. They were especially impressed with Dicksonia Antarctica, the.. read more

Mount Victoria is located 120 kilometres from Sydney and 1044 metres above sea-level in westernmost area of the Blue Mountains. Surveyor-General, Thomas Mitchell marked this area One Tree Hill in 1834. When a toll bar was opened in 1849, it was referred.. read more

Mount Wilson is a small township accessed by turning off the Bells Line of Road between Bell and Mt Tomah. Many private gardens open in spring and autumn and some gardens open year round. Old Mount Wilson Post Office has a tea room serving light snacks.. read more

Mount York was the point where the Three Explorers, Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth viewed the Kanimbla Valley and the 'west' for the first time. Their famous 'first crossing' and opening of the west to farming.. read more

In the early 19th century, along with the explorers, stock keepers and free settlers, Daruk and Wiradjuri Aboriginal tribes visited Oberon. From 1818 on, an increasing number of settlers, many from Ireland, began grazing stock or growing vegetables and fruits.. read more

Springwood in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales is 371 metres above sea level. This location was named by Governor Macquarie in 1815, while he and his wife were travelling over the mountains to Bathurst. It was so called because of ‘a very pretty wooded plain near.. read more

The name was changed to the Valley in 1877 and to Valley Heights in 1890. A steam engine locomotive depot operated here from 1913 until electrification of the railway in 1957. Valley Heights has the railway station, rail museum and the historic Gatekeepers cottage.. read more

For a short period in the late nineteenth century a small railway platform named Karabar existed here. The present station was built in 1918 to serve a large subdivision developed by Arthur Rickard and Co. It was named Warrimoo (an Aboriginal word meaning.. read more

Just south of the town of Wentworth Falls there are views of the Jamison Valley and of the 300-metre Wentworth Falls themselves, from Falls Reserve which is the starting point for a network of walking tracks. read more