The Jamison Valley
The legendary heartland of Upper Mountains walking, bordered by colossal vertical cliffs and endless eucalyptus wilderness.
The Federal Pass Corridor
Winding across the damp, shaded valley floors below the towering escarpment profiles.
Mount Solitary
Isolated sandstone formations rising defiantly out of the sea of green forest canopy.
Cahills Lookout in Katoomba
The most popular and busy lookout along Cliff Drive in Katoomba, Cahills Lookout is one of the best vantage points for views of the Megalong Valley.
The Jamison Valley
The legendary heartland of Upper Mountains walking, bordered by colossal vertical cliffs and endless eucalyptus wilderness.
The Katoomba and Jamison Valley region represents the crown jewel of the upper range, where early Australian tourism engineering collided with a wilderness of monumental scale. Defined by the famous multi-tiered sandstone bastions of the Three Sisters and the sweeping, amphitheatre-like expanses of the deep Jamison basin, this territory balances airy, exposure-filled clifftop rim-walking with rugged, vertical valley drops.
Every exploration here calls for navigating historic structural passes—descending historic hand-cut cliff-face stairways, following long-lost pioneer mining tramways through primeval sassafras and coachwood rainforests, or striking out across isolated ridges toward monolithic sandstone fortresses out in the open valley floor.
At the center of these iconic routes is the spectacular Prince Henry Cliff Walk, a cliff-hugging path that tracks the northern rim to deliver classic, unobstructed lookouts over the entire valley basin. For those eager to plunge beneath the canopy, descending the vertiginous, hand-hewn steps of the Giant Stairway or Furber Steps drops you onto the floor of the Federal Pass, tracing ancient mining pathways through the shaded depths of Leura Forest. If you are looking to escape the main crowds, striking out along the narrow, sandstone plateau of Castle Head offers an incredible, isolated spur walk, while a multi-day push out to the massive rock structures of the Ruined Castle and Mount Solitary treats backcountry trekkers to a true wilderness immersion.
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