Start from 31 curated places around Blue Mountains, AU, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Darley's Restaurant
The Blue Mountains' most acclaimed fine dining room — a multi-award-winning kitchen at Lilianfels Resort in Katoomba, built around regional NSW produce sourced within 100 miles of the table. The menu and wine list have maintained consistent recognition over decades, which in a mountain resort setting is a genuine achievement.
Echoes Restaurant
A cliff-top restaurant at Katoomba with panoramic views across the Jamison Valley — the kitchen applies modern Australian technique with Asian accents (truffled mushroom wontons, miso-glazed ocean trout) to a menu that takes the view seriously as context. The combination of genuinely good food and a view that stops conversation mid-sentence is the reason to book here over Darley's for a first visit.
Trails & outdoors
Grand Canyon Track
The most celebrated walk in the Blue Mountains — a 6.3 km loop from Blackheath into a lush fern-filled canyon with waterfalls, clear creek crossings, and canyon walls that filter the light to a permanent green. The track descends into the canyon via the Neates Glen section and returns via Evans Lookout, giving a complete circuit that reads the landscape from creek level to cliff edge.
National Pass
A classic cliff-face walk at Wentworth Falls with iron ladders, dramatic waterfall views, and the full vertical geology of the Blue Mountains escarpment revealed over 6 km — the track descends the cliff via the Wentworth Falls lookout, follows the cliff face laterally, and returns to the Conservation Hut Café at the top. The most technically rewarding walk in the mountains for those who want more than a lookout.
Things to do
Scenic World
The Blue Mountains' essential paid experience — a cluster of four interconnected attractions (Scenic Railway, Cableway, Skyway, Walkway) that allow a visitor to experience the Jamison Valley from multiple angles and elevations in a single session. The Scenic Railway's 52-degree incline is a genuine physical experience rather than a theme-park ride, and the sequence of all four is more than the sum of the parts.
Horseback Riding, Megalong Valley
Guided horse trail rides through the Megalong Valley below the Blue Mountains escarpment — a pastoral valley floor with the cliff walls visible above and working farmland extending in every direction. The ride provides a perspective of the valley that neither the cliff-top lookouts nor the walking tracks produce.
Landmarks & sights
Echo Point and Three Sisters Lookout
The most iconic viewpoint in the Blue Mountains — a cliff-edge platform at Echo Point in Katoomba overlooking the Jamison Valley, with the Three Sisters rock formation rising from the valley floor and the forested plateau of the Jamison Valley extending to the horizon. Free and accessible, with a visitor information centre on-site and walkable from Katoomba's main street.
Scenic World
The flagship Blue Mountains attraction combining four interconnected experiences — the Scenic Railway (world's steepest passenger railway at 52 degrees), the Scenic Cableway (an enclosed cable car descending into the valley), the Scenic Skyway (glass-floor cable car 270 metres above the valley floor), and the 2.4 km Scenic Walkway elevated boardwalk through the rainforest below. Each is distinct and they are best experienced in sequence.