Blue Mountains Travel

Three Sisters at the Blue Mountains The Blue Mountains is located immediately to the west of the sprawling metropolian area that is Sydney, is one of the most accessible areas of (relatively unspoilt) highland natural beauty in New South Wales, Australia.

Although not particularly high as a mountain range, the Blue Mountains is nonetheless renowned for its majestic scenery of a unique kind, for its cultural attractions and for its relatively tranquil, alternative mode of life (despite being located so close to Sydney….)

Although not especially high, the Blue Mountains were sufficiently rugged to prevent European explorers and settlers from penetrating the inland of New South Wales from Sydney for some time.

Blue Mountains Although Aborigines were able to negotiate the mountain trails, it took Europeans from 1788 – when Sydney was first settled – until 1813 (25 years) to discover a way over. Even then, it was never by following the valleys, but only by traversing the mountain ridges, that a road over the mountains was made possible.

The Blue Mountains region was inscribed as a World Heritage Area by UNESCO in 2000.

Cities and Major Towns of the Snowy Mountains

Blackheath
Blaxland
Katoomba
Leura
Little Hartley
Megalong Valley
Mount Victoria
Oberon
Wentworth Falls
Springwood