Wentworth Falls in the beautiful Blue Mountains

Where: Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains National Park.

How to get there: Turn off onto Falls road from the M4 at Wentworth Falls and head all the way to the end of the road. You’ll eventually end up in the National Park car park. From the carpark follow the signs to the waterfalls.

Track name: Wentworth Falls into National Pass

How long: 2 hours return and around 2.5 km one way.

Tips: The way down is pretty easy, but climbing back up the stairs is tough. Be prepared to burn the legs on the way back up.

Today’s hike was the awesome Wentworth Falls track that turns into the National Pass track. My journey to the bottom of the falls started at the car park and from there it was pretty easy to follow the signs to the waterfall (see the pix below for the signs)

There are a fair few walking tracks you could choose from, but I was pretty keen on the waterfall one, so I’ll leave the others for another day.

I’v been wanting to tick this one off for a while, so now we are out of our Covid lockdown today was a great day for a hike and photoshoot at the awesome Wentworth Falls. So I started at the top and trekked down to the bottom, and here are some pictures from the decent to the waterfalls.

With a stunning cascade of water Wentworth Falls didn’t disappoint and I’m glad I finally made the trip. There are so many great views of the waterfalls and the overlooking valley. It’s hard to find a bad angle of this part of the Blue Mountains.

The decent down to the bottom of the waterfall is a beautiful one, it’s a really well made track with beautiful sandstone steps and stairs along the way. It must have been a pretty tough days hike prior to the tracks being built.

There’s plenty of great viewpoints along the way down to the waterfalls with epic views of the valley as well.

But the real treat is the stunning waterfall that you can stop at for a awesome picture or a selfie if you like.

From bottom here I continued a little further along the track as it descends even more towards the very bottom of the falls. But as I didn’t have enough time today, that was the end of my journey then I started the climb back up to the car park.

From all reports and the signs here, that adds an extra two hours to your hike if you continued on, but I can only imagine the view of the waterfalls from all the way down the bottom. So I’ll definitely come back another time with a bit more fitness to take on that hectic track.

By the time I climbed up all of those stairs to where I started from, my step counter had me at 6500 steps. And around 5km. So it’s a pretty decent hike and I was far more gassed then I would have liked.

So I’ll definitely have to work on the fitness for the next one. I was pretty relieved to get back to my car and had just enough energy to get a pie and a coffee before heading home. A great days hike and some cool pictures to go with it. I’d definitely recommend it.

If I was to head here again for a shoot, I think I’d like to go more in the afternoon. I was here around 10am and the waterfall was still in shade. So I think it would make for a better picture as the afternoon light hits the falls. but still a great days shooting anyway.

Til next time!

Chris