🚧 Extensive Closures Hit Blue Mountains National Park

Visitors to the Blue Mountains National Park are urged to be aware of extensive closures across many roads, fire trails, and walking tracks. These closures are primarily due to significant infrastructure repairs, upgrades, and damage from recent wet weather, including subsidence, rockfalls, landslides, and fallen trees.

Key Track and Area Closures

In the Katoomba and Leura areas, Honeymoon Bridge is closed due to rockfall hazards. The lower section of Leura Cascades track is shut until late 2025 for upgrades, impacting access to parts of Prince Henry Cliff Walk, with the Leura Cascades parking area also closed. Fern Bower track is inaccessible due to landslides, and Glenraphael Drive (Narrow Neck fire trail) is closed to vehicles, though open to walkers and cyclists. Lindeman Pass and Roberts Pass also remain closed.

Around Wentworth Falls and Woodford, Charles Darwin Walk is closed between Fletcher Street and Weeping Rock, with detours available. A major landslide continues to impact National Pass west of Wentworth Falls middle crossing. Wentworth Pass, Slack Stairs, and Valley of the Waters are also closed for repairs or due to hazards, affecting access to other popular tracks.

For Blackheath, Mount Victoria, and Megalong Valley, Pulpit Rock Reserve and its associated lookouts and track sections are closed. Govetts Descent and Rodriguez Pass are also shut due to rockfalls and landslides. Certain camping areas, including Murphys Camping Area and Ingar Camping Area access, may experience closures or delays for maintenance in August 2025.

Important Safety and Wildlife Alerts

Further closures include Waratah Native Gardens picnic area and Gorge walking track. Woodford Oaks and Saint Helena trails will be closed on weekdays from late May to early August 2025 for maintenance, and the Link walking track is temporarily closed from May 9, 2025, for ongoing works.

Those planning remote adventures, particularly on the Kanangra to Katoomba (K2K) trail within the Kanangra Wilderness Area, should note that routes are impacted by fire regrowth and flood damage, making navigation challenging with limited water sources. Appropriate experience, navigation skills, and equipment, including a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB), are strongly recommended due to limited mobile reception.

Additionally, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is conducting an ongoing 1080 baiting program in the southern section of Blue Mountains National Park until May 1, 2026. This initiative targets wild dogs and foxes. Visitors are reminded that domestic pets are not permitted in national parks, and 1080 is lethal to cats and dogs. Owners of working dogs in nearby areas should exercise extreme caution.

Authorities urge all visitors to check the latest park alerts before visiting and to strictly adhere to all signage and directions from NPWS staff. Penalties apply for non-compliance.