Guidebook for Blackheath

David
Guidebook for Blackheath

Parks & Nature

A beautiful walk along a creek with many flowering heath plants. Joins the spectacular cliff top walk to either Govetts Leap or Evans Lookout. From Govetts Leap it's about 20-25 minutes walk back to the house. Starts a few hundred metres from our house.
Braeside Walk
Braeside Walk
A beautiful walk along a creek with many flowering heath plants. Joins the spectacular cliff top walk to either Govetts Leap or Evans Lookout. From Govetts Leap it's about 20-25 minutes walk back to the house. Starts a few hundred metres from our house.
Starting about 700 metres from our house this is a lovely forest walk. You can finish at Govetts Leap or go for a longer walk to Pulpit Rock.
Popes Glen Track
Popes Glen Track
Starting about 700 metres from our house this is a lovely forest walk. You can finish at Govetts Leap or go for a longer walk to Pulpit Rock.
Spectacular views of the Grose Valley.
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Tanawin sa Govetts Leap
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Spectacular views of the Grose Valley.
A very large community garden that beautifully combines rhodos with natural bush forest. Lovely pond with ducks too. Various walks that wind around the gardens. A short drive or about 40 minutes walk from our house.
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The Campbell Rhododendron Gardens
1 Bacchante St
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A very large community garden that beautifully combines rhodos with natural bush forest. Lovely pond with ducks too. Various walks that wind around the gardens. A short drive or about 40 minutes walk from our house.
A wonderful, memorable walk. In my view, the Grand Canyon walk is the best in the Blue Mountains. A five minute drive from our house, it takes about two hours to complete and has recently been beautifully renovated. Every 50 metres or so another superb view opens before you of waterfalls, sheer cliffs and overhanging escarpments, ferny glades and deep ravines. A must if you're fit enough to do the steepish walk out (equivalent to 102 floors, according to my fitbit). Because of the renovations it's otherwise an easy walk to do. Happy to drive you to the start if you don't have a vehicle.
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Grand Canyon Walking Track
Evans Lookout Road
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A wonderful, memorable walk. In my view, the Grand Canyon walk is the best in the Blue Mountains. A five minute drive from our house, it takes about two hours to complete and has recently been beautifully renovated. Every 50 metres or so another superb view opens before you of waterfalls, sheer cliffs and overhanging escarpments, ferny glades and deep ravines. A must if you're fit enough to do the steepish walk out (equivalent to 102 floors, according to my fitbit). Because of the renovations it's otherwise an easy walk to do. Happy to drive you to the start if you don't have a vehicle.
Another spectacular view into the Grose Valley but with a different perspective than Govetts Leap.
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Evans Lookout
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Another spectacular view into the Grose Valley but with a different perspective than Govetts Leap.
Windswept Cave, a remarkable, large wind-eroded cave. Anvil Rock is also nearby. Right at the end of Hat Hill Road. It's a reasonably good dirt road much of the way. About 15-20 minutes drive from Blackheath.
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Blue Mountains
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Windswept Cave, a remarkable, large wind-eroded cave. Anvil Rock is also nearby. Right at the end of Hat Hill Road. It's a reasonably good dirt road much of the way. About 15-20 minutes drive from Blackheath.

Shopping

A large place in an old cinema. It has lots of stalls with generally good quality bric-a-brac (lots of australiana) and some antiques.
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Victory Theatre Antique Centre
21 Govetts Leap Rd
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A large place in an old cinema. It has lots of stalls with generally good quality bric-a-brac (lots of australiana) and some antiques.
Quality meats, a bit pricey.
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Blackheath Butchery
10 Govetts Leap Rd
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Quality meats, a bit pricey.

Sightseeing

Great views over the Megalong Valley. Try the high tea and watch the sunset. In nearby Medlow Bath.
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The Hydro Majestic Hotel Blue Mountains
88 Great Western Hwy
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Great views over the Megalong Valley. Try the high tea and watch the sunset. In nearby Medlow Bath.

Getting Around

About 25 minutes walk from our house. A lovely trip from Sydney once you get to the Blue Mountains.
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Blackheath Station
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About 25 minutes walk from our house. A lovely trip from Sydney once you get to the Blue Mountains.

Arts & Culture

An art glass studio in a small industrial space. With any luck you will see some pieces being blown. Beautiful stuff but fairly pricey. They also have a small shop near the corner of the highway and Govetts Leap Road that has irregular hours (mostly weekends) and an attractive front window display.
Keith Rowe Glass
134 Station St
An art glass studio in a small industrial space. With any luck you will see some pieces being blown. Beautiful stuff but fairly pricey. They also have a small shop near the corner of the highway and Govetts Leap Road that has irregular hours (mostly weekends) and an attractive front window display.

Essentials

Very basic and cheap but a good option if that's all you're after.
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Blackheath Fish Shop
222 Great Western Hwy
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Very basic and cheap but a good option if that's all you're after.

Entertainment & Activities

Beautiful course, the club house is pretty average but it does have a great view over the course.
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Blackheath Golf and Community Club
Brightlands Avenue
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Beautiful course, the club house is pretty average but it does have a great view over the course.