A visit to Somersby Falls in Brisbane Water National Park is a geat day trip from Sydney, with beautiful scenery and great picnic facilities to enjoy.
Follow a short walking track along Floods Creek from the picnic area all the way to the bottom of Somersby Falls. A series of small but pretty waterfalls will greet you, as you make your way down along this picturesque walk.
The scenic Pool of Siloam and Lyrebird Dell circuit walk in Leura takes in two small waterfalls and two natural swimming holes.
This quiet and unpretentious walking trail is located in Leura, close to the Gordon Falls lookout and picnic area. It’s a great way to enjoy a bit of unspoiled natural scenery in the Blue Mountains, with various lookouts nearby to explore.
The South Lawson Circuit Walk is an unspoiled bushwalk that takes in four small but pretty waterfalls in the southern part of Lawson, a quiet town 14km east of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains.
It’s also one of the very few dog-friendly walks in the Blue Mountains where your furry friend is more than welcome to join you on this exciting hike.
Maddens Falls is a stunning cascade waterfall in the rural locality of Darkes Forest in Dharawal National Park, located approximately 50 km south of Sydney.
A short and easy 1 km bushwalk through upland swamp communities brings visitors to a scenic viewing platform which provides beautiful views of the waterfall.
The Katoomba Cascades form a small but picturesque waterfall on the Kedumba River in the Katoomba area of the Blue Mountains.
Two short walks, starting at the cascades, lead to the Duke & Duchess of York Lookout and the Cliff View Lookout, which offer fantastic Jamison Valley views.
Sydney has a lot to offer when it comes to beautiful natural scenery. The coastline, the beaches, the mountains, the valleys, as a Sydney-sider you have an endless amount of options for great day trips to undertake.
But if there is one thing we all love watching when out and about, it has to be waterfalls. The water plunging down into a valley or into a natural water hole, the beautiful noise they often generate, waterfalls are a true gift from Mother Nature.