Blue Mountains National Park

More than three million people come to Blue Mountains National Park each year. For many it's enough just to find a lookout and gaze across the park's chiselled sandstone outcrops and hazy blue forests. Others walk or cycle along the cliff-tops and in the valleys, following paths that were created for Victorian-era honeymooners, or discovered by Aboriginal hunters many thousands of years ago. Over 140 km of walking tracks of all grades (some accessible for people with a disability) in diverse settings make the Blue Mountains a bushwalker's paradise.

This park, which is part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, protects an unusually diverse range of vegetation communities. There are rare and ancient plants and isolated animal populations tucked away in its deep gorges. The Greater Blue Mountains Drive, winner of the 2008 Australian Tourism Award for New Tourism Development, links a vast and spectacular world heritage landscape and a number of national parks to the regions that surround it.

Sectors in this park (see map below): Blackheath | Glenbrook | Katoomba - Echo Point | Katoomba - Scenic Railway | Leura | Wentworth Falls | Woodford |