Blue Mountains (New South Wales) - Tourist Attractions

Tourist Attractions

• The Edge Cinema offers visitors a panoramic view of the Blue Mountains.
• The Giant Stairway walking track runs down a cliff into the Jamison Valley, near the Three Sisters, providing access to nature walks through the valley.
• Jenolan Caves, a series of limestone caves south west of Katoomba.
• The Katoomba Scenic Railway, was said to be the steepest railway in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records, and originally part of the Katoomba mining tramways constructed between 1878 and 1900. The cable railway line descends 415 metres through sandstone cliffs, via a rock tunnel with a maximum gradient of 52 degrees. Also, at this location is the Scenic Skyway, a glass-bottom aerial cable car that traverses an arm of the Jamison Valley, and the Scenic Cableway, the steepest aerial cable car in Australia.
• The Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum at Faulconbridge, operated by The National Trust of Australia and is located inside the former Norman Lindsay homestead, Springwood.
• The Toy and Railway Museum at Leura.
• Knapsack Viaduct, also a location where the Bell Miner bird can often be heard.
• Lennox Bridge, Glenbrook, on Mitchell's Pass which may be hiked (downhill) from Blaxland to Emu Plains (8 km).
• Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum.
• The Zig Zag Railway: A steam-powered railway near Lithgow.
• A popular way to visit the Blue Mountains is by coach.
• The last remaining apple orchard on the Shipley Plateau.