The beauty of the Grand Cliff Top Walk is that it can be done in bite-size chunks, so hikers can join the walk for as long as they choose.
Long distance, multi-day walking trails are having their moment in the sun, yet it’s little wonder the Blue Mountains’ new Grand Cliff Top Walk, just 90 minutes from Sydney and achievable for many without taking time off work, is creating a buzz.Unveiled in March after four years in the making at a cost of $10 million, the 19-kilometre walk links new and existing tracks along the southern escarpment of the Blue Mountains between Wentworth Falls and Katoomba.
The beauty of the Grand Cliff Top Walk, however, is that it can also be done in bite-size chunks, so hikers can join the walk from different locations, for as long as they choose. Some may be time poor or prefer to spend a couple of hours stretching their legs. It’s a shocker of a day when I meet NPWS discovery ranger Greg Davis at Wentworth Falls Picnic Area – the skies are blue, but winds gusting at 90km/h make it difficult to stand, let alone hear. Davis gives an acknowledgement of Country, explaining that to the Gundungurra and Darug traditional owners, this land was consideredA spectacular section of the Overcliff-Undercliff track.
Beneath the cliff-line, we’re better protected from the wind and we begin the hike in earnest. We make our way through a landscape that changes from open woodland to hanging swamps, from creek beds to temperate rainforest.The temptation is to gaze at the awe-inspiring vista to our left, of Mount Solitary standing sentinel above the vast Jamison Valley, muted by its defining blue haze.
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