Top Blue Mountains Tours, Sightseeing & Cruises

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.

Take a hop-on hop-off bus tour of the Blue Mountains with a sightseeing pass valid for three days. Your bus stops at 29 convenient locations, where you can hop off to visit mountain towns, snap photos from the Three Sisters and Echo Point lookouts, and more. Plus, you can upgrade to the Lyrebrird Pass to add a Scenic World unlimited ride pass.

Explore the beautiful Blue Mountains National Park on this small-group excursion with a local guide. After a convenient hotel or AirBnB pickup, watch for koalas, wombats, and crocodiles at Featherdale Wildlife Park, marvel at Katoomba Falls and the amazing Three Sisters rock formation, enjoy a rainforest railway ride and a complimentary lunch.

See the highlights of Blue Mountains National Park, one of Australia’s most famous wilderness areas, on a day trip from Sydney. Your guide takes your small group to gorgeous locales including Echo Point a lookout with great views of the Three Sisters rock formation. Learn about Aboriginal culture, see the rainforest near Wentworth Falls, explore the Jamison Valley and observe native animals at Featherdale Wildlife Park. Enjoy leisurely walks in nature with a knowledgeable guide and a maximum group size of 14 people.

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.

Experience the beauty and history of the Blue Mountains on this private full-day tour. Start with a cable car journey for views of the Jamison Valley and then see the Three Sisters rock formation. Visit Scenic World and ride the ‘world’s steepest railway’, and stop for lunch in the picturesque town of Leura (own expense). This tour is ideal for visitors who want to get out of the city learn about Australian culture and history.

Nature lovers—this is the tour for you! Swap the hustle and bustle of Sydney for a day exploring the natural beauty outside the city. Avoid spending time stuck in traffic by going on a tour designed to miss peak hour traffic jams. A guided bushwalk is included, so you won’t have to worry about studying a map. See Wentworth Falls, and the Three Sisters rock formation. A highlight is an incredible sunset over the Blue Mountains—the ideal photo opportunity.

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 natural beauty of the Blue Mountains has earned them UNESCO World Heritage status. Experience them on a self-guided mountain-bike adventure from Blackheath Train Station or Katoomba YHA. After paperwork, an introduction to your wide-handle 29er, and a trail overview, set off into the forest. Follow the ridgeline to Baltzer Lookout and Hanging Rock along flowing trails with a few short climbs: The ride typically takes about half a day.

The towering peaks of the Three Sisters are among the most photographed sites in the Blue Mountains. With this tour, hop aboard a Chopper 4 trike and zip along the mountain roads in your unique form of transport. Escape the crowds to stop at quiet lookout points, admire the views from Govetts Leap, and spot the Three Sisters and Bridal Veil Falls.

Mountain biking is one of the best ways to experience the epic and varied landscapes of the Blue Mountains—and e-mountain biking is even better. Just under an hour west of Sydney, Glenbrook is the gateway to the Blue Mountains. You’ll meet your group here before hitting the trails, traversing the mountains on dirt tracks and occasionally stopping to take in incredible panoramic views over ancient forests, deep valleys, and gorges.

Experience the thrill of exploring the Blue Mountains in an open air ex-army Land Rover with this exciting small-group tour. Meet your driver in Katoomba and jump in, channeling your inner adventurer as you cruise through the Blue Mountains with the wind in your hair. Taking you right off the beaten track, this guided tour is the perfect way to explore these rugged and epic landscapes.

Get off the beaten track and away from the crowds on this small-group 4-wheel-drive tour of the Blue Mountains that includes private access to a property with sweeping views of Capertee Valley, the largest enclosed canyon in the Southern Hemisphere. Visit the Lost City, a formation of rock pagodas created naturally over millions of years, and see artwork made by indigenous Aboriginal people thousands of years ago. Along the way, stop at the Royal Hotel at Capertee for a home-cooked lunch.

Your Blue Mountains tour offers a mix of sealed and unsealed roads to get off the beaten track in search of wildlife and scenic destinations in our Toyota Kluger SUV. Our first stop is an introduction into the wild, as we go in search of native wildlife in the Lower Blue Mountains. This is where we enjoy an Aussie style morning tea surrounded by lush bushland. We continue our journey up the mountains checking out the Jamison Valley from the Eastern escarpment known as Kings Tableland. Take a bushwalk to enjoy views of Wentworth falls. Visit a quaint village for lunch. Then continue to breathtaking scenes overlooking the western edge of the mountains. At this point we're well into the upper mountains where you'll have time to check out a local village for such and time to meander. Then we head towards The Grose Valley in search of ideal vantage points. Our finale is visiting Three Sisters at echo point in the afternoon.

Get wild with the night owls as we explore the world of Wollemi National Park's nocturnal wildlife by spotlight! Did you know that the Bare-nosed Wombat’s droppings (scats) are square shaped? And that the Sugar Glider can glide up to ninety meters from one tree to the next? Join us on this fully guiding walking tour through Newnes and Petries Gully as we spotlight for Red-necked Wallabies, Eastern Grey Kangaroos, Southern Boobook Owls and Bare-nosed Wombats. You can even get involved in our regular citizen science projects surveying Wollemi’s truly unique and diverse wildlife. At Wolgan Valley Eco Tours we believe that walking is a great way to explore the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. Our small group sizes, personalised service and experienced local guide offers guests a greater opportunity to experience and learn more about the history, ecology, flora and fauna, climate and geology that make this landscape unique.

Enjoy this 2-hour tour with a group of 4 in a private vintage Cadillac tour through the Blue Mountains with a local guide. You just sit back and enjoy the classy ride, while your guide takes you to several places like Leura Mall, Leura Cascades, Echo Point Lookout, Eagle Hawk Lookout, Cahill’s Lookout, and several more stops. Get out to take photos or to poke around the waterfalls of the Leura Cascades.

A 2 day course in the Blue Mountains, departing each day from Katoomba. This course is designed for participants with little or no previous outdoor climbing experience, it is also an excellent transition from indoor to outdoor climbing. Quite simply you will experience a lot of fine Blue Mountains climbing while undertaking world standard technical rock and rope skills training.

Explore the historic ruins of one of Australia’s largest shale oil production schemes – the Newnes Shale Oil Refinery. This fully guided walking tour explores the fascinating history of the once thriving Blue Mountains shale oil industry taking in the Newnes shale oil refinery ruins, the incredible beehive-shaped coking kilns, the remote township of Newnes and the beautiful Wolgan River. This tour is well suited to history buffs and nature lovers alike. At Wolgan Valley Eco Tours we believe that walking is a great way to explore the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. Our small group sizes, personalised service and experienced local guide offers guests a greater opportunity to experience and learn more about the history, ecology, flora and fauna, climate and geology that make this landscape unique.

Explore the Botanic Gardens and Bilpin’s cider when you take this tour of the Blue Mountains from Katoomba. You’ll be with a group on this guided tour, where you first visit all the plant species of the Botanic Gardens, where you can purchase lunch if you like. Next you spend the afternoon at the Hillbilly Cider Shed to pick fruit, sip cider and then relax all the way back to Katoomba.

This Private Wine Tasting Tour explores the Bathurst Wine Trail. These cool climate wines will delight the palette as will the yarns of the vignerons during your private tastings with the winemaker. After picking you up at your hotel or train station we visit four wineries, meet the winemakers, taste their wines, share their stories, tour their facilities and travel the countryside. Chat with the winemaker at Vale Creek over a fresh fruit platter, explore the unique property at Rock Forest Vineyard and the challenges winemakers face in this region, enjoy a Ploughman’s Platter for lunch whilst chatting to the infamous Mark Renzaglia, relax and take in the views at Winburndale Wines while sharing how dreams can come true. Not only are the wines and their artisans sure to delight the breathtaking scenery along our journey will captivate. Return around 5pm to your hotel or train station.