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A twelve-month climate record, a full event calendar, a closure list nobody else publishes, and a long list of prices that no operator will put in writing. These are the longer pieces.
Money
Every verified price in the Blue Mountains in one place, taken from operators' own pages. Then the more interesting list: the twenty-odd figures we could not confirm, and what that tells you.
Before you go
Two of the region's best-known attractions are shut, three roads are broken, and a famous café that closed eight years ago is still being recommended by guides written this year. Here is the current state of it.
Walking
A Grade 3 walk here often means four hundred steps back up an escarpment. The lookouts are unfenced sandstone above hundred-metre drops. And one carrier works up here considerably better than the others.
Timing
Katoomba sits at a thousand metres and runs seven degrees cooler than Sydney. People arrive in July in a t-shirt every single week. Here is the full twelve-month record, and every dated thing worth planning around.
Getting here
The train drops you in the middle of every village, the clifftop walks run station to station, and you tap on with the card already in your pocket. Here is the whole thing, worked out.