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Do & See The guide was updated: 2024-07-18

The World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains offer many exhilarating adventures and experiences, from walking trails and abseiling to golf and gardens. Deeply connected to Aboriginal culture, the Blue Mountains also offer wonderful insights into The Dreaming and indigenous heritage. Enjoy tours with Aboriginal guides on walking trails through the spectacular wilderness and see traditional dance and music.

Bygone Beautys Treasured Teapot Museum & Tearooms

Bygone Beautys Treasured Teapot Museum & Tearooms

Bygone Beautys is home to one of the world's largest private collections of teapots, spanning five centuries. More than 5,500 teapots are in the collection: Royal Doulton, Torquay Ware, Wedgwood, Bunnykins and Toby characters to name a few. From the elegant to the ostentatious, this is a unique antique emporium which also features a tearoom where you can indulge in a Devonshire tea or traditional high tea.

Aboriginal Blue Mountains Walkabout

Aboriginal Blue Mountains Walkabout

Travel back in time and learn about ‘The Dreaming’ — the mythical period when the earth, Aboriginal people, animals, and landscapes were created. This multi award-winning Aboriginal walkabout adventure will enrich you with its ancient wisdom. Aboriginal owned and guided, you will follow an original walkabout song line of sacred sites through a beautiful and secluded rainforest gully. Walk gently and listen carefully to what the natural bush, fascinating art and ceremonial sites have to tell.

Abseiling & Canyoning with Blue Mountains Adventure Company

Abseiling & Canyoning with Blue Mountains Adventure Company

The Blue Mountains Adventure Company is an abseiling, rock-climbing, canyoning and bushwalking specialist. Take on an action-packed adventure, combining an abseiling course and canyon trip: wading, swimming and a thrilling abseil await you. Operating for more than 30 years, the company offers courses for all levels of experience, from novice to advance thrill-seekers.

Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah

Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah

With a world-class collection of plants, this splendid botanic garden is some 1,000 metres above sea level and enjoys spectacular views. See the famous Wollemi pine, nicknamed the dinosaur tree. The tree was discovered in 1994, deep in a gorge in the Wollemi National Park, part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. Guided tours are available, including an Aboriginal heritage tour

Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Built on the highest point in Katoomba, the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre offers panoramic views of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. The centre showcases innovative and diverse cultural programs for the enjoyment of visitors to the Blue Mountains, featuring the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, the World Heritage Interpretive Exhibition, a library and a cafe.

Blue Mountains National Pass

Blue Mountains National Pass

This 4.5-kilometre loop walk offers gorgeous views of the Jamison Valley and surrounding cliffs. Magnificent waterfalls inspire you at the beginning of your walk and reward you again at the end. The track crosses the midpoint of Wentworth Falls and follows a ledge halfway down the 185-metre high cliffs, leading you to the aptly named Giant Staircase with its 1,000 steps, which requires reasonable fitness levels.

Bush Survival Course with High & Wild Adventures

Bush Survival Course with High & Wild Adventures

Learn how to navigate by the sun, moon and stars, make your own compass and sundial, preserve meat and prepare plant foods and medicine. An overnight two-day camping course with High and Wild Australian Adventures is for people who want to survive when exploring wilderness regions. By the end of the course you will know several ways to light a fire without matches, how to find water and purify it by natural means, and build survival shelters to keep you warm, dry and safe.

Everglades House & Gardens

Everglades House & Gardens

A treasure from the 1930s, the elegant and tranquil gardens are acclaimed by garden lovers worldwide and draw inspiration from the great traditions of European landscape design. You’ll also enjoy breathtaking views of the Blue Mountains. The Art Déco Everglades House features a gallery, gift shop and tea rooms. The tea rooms in the house and courtyard are open seven days a week.

Golf

Golf

The picturesque fairways of the Blue Mountains draw in many avid golfers from across the region and around the world. Choose from many notable courses, all with sensational views of the World Heritage wilderness. Wentworth Falls Country Club Blaxland Road, Wentworth Falls NSW +61 2 4757 1202 www.wfcc.com.au/cms Blackheath Golf & Community Club Brightlands Avenue, Blackheath NSW +61 2 4787 8406 blackheathgolf.com.au Leura Golf Club Sublime Point Road, Leura NSW +61 2 4785 0035 www.leuragolfclub.com.au Springwood Country Club 84 Hawkesbury Road, Springwood NSW +61 2 4751 1122 www.springwoodgolfclub.com.au

Govetts Leap Lookout

Govetts Leap Lookout

Govetts Leap Lookout is a popular spot to stop and view the spectacular panorama before descending into the Grose Valley. Here you’ll find one of the region’s more physical walks where you can view the towering cliffs leading back up to Perry Lookdown and Evans Lookout. At the top of the escarpment is a picnic ground, toilets and access to cliff top walks, including the Fairfax Heritage Track which is suitable for wheelchairs and prams.

Leura Cascades Picnic Area

Leura Cascades Picnic Area

Leura Cascades is a popular picnic area set amid tall eucalypts. Take a walk beside the nearby rapids on Leura Falls Creek, down to Bridal Veil Falls and Leura Falls. Other longer walks take you along the cliff tops to Echo Point or down through the Leura Forest and via the Federal or Dardanelles Passes to Katoomba.

Mayfield Garden

Mayfield Garden

Lovers of beautiful gardens will be delighted with Mayfield Garden, one of the world’s largest privately owned cool-climate gardens. Over 64 hectares, it includes the Water Garden that features an obelisk pond and follies such as a blue-stone bridge and a copper tree fountain. Inspired by the grandeur of English country garden estates, enjoy the tranquillity and browse in the nursery and shop. The Mayfield Garden Cafe serves seasonal, freshly prepared food.

Norman Lindsay Gallery & Museum

Norman Lindsay Gallery & Museum

Recognised as one of Australia’s most renowned artists and authors, Norman Lindsay made his home in the Blue Mountains and produced an array of drawings, etchings, woodcuts, watercolours and sculptures. As the author of The Magic Pudding, a children’s classic, he is regarded as one of Australia’s literary icons. His sandstone home is now a museum which displays his artistic work as well as his superb gardens.

Scenic World

Scenic World

At Scenic World you choose how you take in the spectacular sites of the Three Sisters, Katoomba Falls and Jamison Valley. Impressive 360-degree views are the highlight of Scenic Skyway’s glass-bottomed carriage. Travelling 270 metres above ancient ravines, it’s Australia’s highest cable car. You can also ride on the Scenic Railway, the world’s steepest passenger railway, and discover the thrill of a 52-degree incline. For a gentler experience, descend into the valleys on Scenic Cableway to see nature at its most spectacular and then amble along the 2.4-kilometre elevated Scenic Walkway through a towering Jurassic rainforest. Unlimited rides on all four experiences are included in the one ticket price.

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

The Three Sisters are a famous rock formation in the Blue Mountains. Offering panoramic views into the Jamison Valley, these three rocky pinnacles on the edge of the escarpment at Echo Point, Katoomba, have become an iconic symbol for the Blue Mountains. The Three Sisters can be viewed from the main Echo Point lookout or the Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales lookouts on the lower levels. A walk from behind the Echo Point Visitor Information Centre will lead you to the top of the Three Sisters via Honeymoon Bridge from the Giant Stairway.

Wentworth Falls

Wentworth Falls

Within Blue Mountains National Park, five minutes from the highway, is one of the most majestic waterfalls on the plateau. The falls occur where the Jamison Creek drops over the escarpment and plunges 297 metres over the upper and lower falls into a large pool before flowing down the creek into the Valley of the Waters. Bushwalks in the area vary from short 10 minutes to full day walks in the valley. National Parks and Wildlife Services produce a booklet with maps and information on the walks. Barbecue and picnic facilities are available and it is about two kilometres from Wentworth Falls train station.

Blue Mountains Music Festival

Blue Mountains Music Festival

Blue Mountains Music Festival of Folk, Blues and Roots is a three day festival of folk, roots and blues music, featuring selected artists from around the world and across Australia. In a variety of venues in Katoomba, see and hear world-class musicians in an intimate and relaxed atmosphere that has been raved about by both performers and audiences. All weekend the site is alive with the sounds of acoustic guitars, dobros, mandolins, fiddles, accordions, concertinas, bouzoukis, banjos, pianos, drums, percussion, flutes, pipes, whistles and voices. Food and craft stalls, the poet's brunch, children's entertainment and performance workshops fill out the on site atmosphere. The festival precinct is a short stroll from Katoomba railway station and the buzzing strip of cafes, restaurants and shops that lead you down to the site.

Blackheath Rhododendron Festival

Blackheath Rhododendron Festival

During the Annual Rhododendron Festival, the Blackheath Village comes alive with entertainment and street stalls. The Grand Parade will take place on the first Saturday in November. The Annual Art Show is held at the Blackheath Community Centre with all items for sale, with over 300 exhibits including traditional and contemporary works. The Campbell Rhododendron Gardens are always open for a visit.

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