Top Blue Mountains Hiking Tours

Guided by a passionate hiker and photographer who has spent a lifetime in the Blue Mountains, this small-group day tour from Sydney goes where the tour buses don't. In a group of no more than 10, walk into the bush and find wild kangaroos grazing in Megalong Valley, then take real trails to lookouts most tours never reach. Want to push further on a longer, steeper stretch? You can. Want the shorter, easier path to the same view? You can do that too, and the group meets back up on the other side. Lunch is a proper Aussie pie with salad from Mountain High Pies, an award-winning Blue Mountains bakery, with around 20 varieties including vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free. As dusk falls at Echo Point, enjoy a twilight spread of Shiraz, Brie and Danish Blue cheese, crackers, hummus and Australian sweets while Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos dive off the escarpment to roost. Included, not an upsell. Roughly 10 hours door to door, this is a tour for those seeking some soft adventure in nature.

Experience the wonder of the wilderness on this full-day private Blue Mountains tour from Sydney. Leave the city lights far behind as you journey into the lush valleys, waterfalls, gorges, mountains, and forests that have shaped life here for tens of thousands of years. You can also opt to add on a visit to Featherdale Wildlife Park or swing by Scenic World and take a trip on the cable car.

Experience the best of the Blue Mountains with a private guide on this full-day tour. Highlights include Wentworth Falls, Scenic World cableway, Leura's scenic drive, and the iconic Three Sisters at Echo Point. Customize your trip with stops at Katoomba Falls, Boar’s Head, and Cahill’s Lookouts for a personalized adventure.

Experience abseiling in the Blue Mountains on this tour from Katoomba. With a guide who provides instruction and encouragement, you'll rappel down a set of cliffs, from 16 feet (5 meters) to 49 feet (15 meters) to a 98-foot (30-meter) drop. During your adventure, don't forget to look around at the surrounding bushland scenery.

The Blue Mountains is a beautiful area to explore but if you want to get up close and embark upon a real adventure, book this guided abseiling and canyon tour. The first half of the day is spent abseiling, beginning with small cliffs and building up to those more challenging ones. After an included lunch walk to the start of the canyon, wade into a creek, and jump into a rock pool. After some exhilarating water jumps and swims, abseil out of the canyon and into the rock pool below.

Adventure-seeking travelers won't want to miss this canyoning day tour of the Blue Mountains that includes two canyons: Twister Canyon and Rocky Creek. Start the day with a short walk to Twister Canyon where you'll don your provided wetsuit and leap into a series of eight pools. Hike further along to Rocky Creek, where you'll have lunch with amazing waterfall views. Swim in, scramble through, and explore these falls after.

Whether you’re an experienced abseiler or would like to try the sport for the first time in a beautiful natural environment, this day tour ticks the boxes. Starting with a small abseil to perfect the technique, you progress to higher and higher courses throughout the day. All day you’ll be surrounded by the dramatic cliffs, forests, and canyons of the Blue Mountains, distracting enough to take your mind off the big drops!

Scale the cliffs of the Blue Mountains on a full-day rock climbing adventure from Katoomba. Whether it's your first time on the rocks or you already have some climbs under your belt, expert guides present all you need to know about gear, belaying, footholds, and descent for a safe and challenging outdoor experience. Take a break to enjoy a picnic among the beautiful Blue Mountain surrounds.