by editor | Jul 19, 2020 | Blue Trail
Wilson Glen, Woodford A well-worn pedestrian bridge crosses the railway from Memorial Park, established in 1920 as a tribute to soldiers, to Railway Parade and the Wilson Glen loop bushwalk, opened in 1933. The remnants of red bunting still adorn the bridge, placed... 
by editor | Jul 3, 2020 | Environment
This article was published in July 2003 Hut News, the newsletter of Blue Mountains Conservation Society. Grace Bayley was a former newsletter editor of the Society. Grace and her husband left the mountains in late 1995 to live in Gerringong on the South Coast of NSW.... 
by editor | Jan 8, 2020 | Blue Trail
The beautiful old Post Office at Hartley was constructed in the 1840s when this village was one of the most important settlements on the western road from Emu Plains to Bathurst. Its significance declined when bypassed by the first railway in 1869. Later the National... 
by editor | Jul 8, 2018 | Blue Trail
Oberon Dam, built in two stages between 1943 and 1959 across the waterway now known as the Fish River, is 232 metres long and 35 metres high. The surface area of the water it holds when full is 410 hectares. It was originally built to supply water to the Glen Davis... 
by simplyoz | Jun 20, 2018 | Blue Trail
The Hassans Walls Plateau, named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1813 for its similarity to landforms in northern India, offers an eclectic selection of Blue Mountains scenery. In Hassans Walls (according to Col Bembrick in Coxs Road Dreaming 2015), we have a...