Recreation in Leura Blue Mountains

The Leura Bushwalks: The Lookouts

In the Leura Bushwalks, we are taking you on three easy walks that go beyond the shopping area of Leura. While not vigorous, these Blue Mountains walks take you out of the village centre and into nature’s bounty. Along the escarpment and down to the lookouts you will discover Leura in its relationship to the Blue Mountains and the World Heritage designation that preserves it. Each short walk to a lookout will get you up close and personal with the natural beauty that prompted Leura’s attraction to Blue Mountains visitors.

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Blue Mountains Cultural Tours

Address: 121 The Mall
Phone: 02 4784 2881

If you want to discover the unique and the hard-to-find in this ancient land of Australia, Blue Mountains Cultural Tours, located in Leura, will customise and personalise a tour that will provide images and memories to last a lifetime.

Surrounded by a silent rainforest, buffeted by the wind at the scarpment edge, encircled by Bach or Vivaldi in the limestone splendour of Jenolan Caves – these are but a short list of available tours.

A door to door tour from your accommodation – either in Sydney or within the Blue Mountains – can include horse riding, bushwalking, abseiling, canyoning, or for the less adventuresome, guided walks through historic estates and gardens with a seasoned botanist. Perhaps, chat with local artists in their studios, or lunch with kangaroos in their natural environment? This trip is yours to plan. Ask your Tour Planner about the Blue Mountains Night Tour and other packages.

Leura Golf Club

Address: Sublime Point Road
Phone: 02 4782 5011

It would be hard to find a more dramatic setting for a round of golf. With exceptional views from every hole, it is the 14th that leaves one gasping in awe. We are vividly reminded that even in a sporting environment, we are still surrounded by the spirit of the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains.

For more than 100 years, golf and the Leura Golf Club – now adjacent to the York Fairmont Resort Blue Mountains, have been an integral part of the recreational and social scene. Members are proud of their important and long heritage in Leura in the Blue Mountains.

And Leura golfers and their guests have been, and continue to be, a hardy bunch — inclement Blue Mountains weather does not deter them. Driving along Sublime Point Road in an early morning misting fog, a lone golfer can be sighted, headed for the second tee. Hopefully spectacular Blue Mountains vistas, however limited, bring out spectacular golfing!

If you have arrived empty handed, you can hire everything from the first-rate golf shop: motorised carts, clubs or shoes. Note: Call for details about the Leura Golf Open held annually in September.

Scenic World Blue Mountains

Address: Corner of Violet Street and Cliff Drive, Katoomba
Phone: 02 4782 2699

International travellers, schoolchildren and backpackers come from all corners of the globe to Scenic World in the Blue Mountains, and this is an experience you won’t want to miss. Don’t miss the short explanatory film as it prepares you for the natural spectacles you are about to see.

In keeping with the World Heritage environment, Scenic World has incorporated a two-hour walk across the Prince Henry Cliff Walk to the Three Sisters as a walk/ride combination ticket. On the trail, you will follow signs to the recently refurbished Giant Stairs.

At the Giant Stairs, the view out across the Jamison Valley is spectacular and the world you descend to is magical. Eight hundred and sixty-one steps — count them if you must, but don’t lose sight of your environment for halfway down these magnificent steps is Honeymoon Bridge, from which you can access one of the Three Sisters rock formations.

At the bottom of the stairs the track winds its way to the bottom of the majestic cliff face and onto the Federal Pass track. The Pass opens to world of temperate rain forest and then to an open and dry eucalypt forest. It is nature at its finest. The Great Round Walk ticket allows you the option of a cableway ride back to your destination. (This is something we recommend unless you are extremely fit.) When hiking in the region, please carry water and energy snacks, raingear and skin protection. And a reminder for all good walkers: carry out what you carry in. For full details on the Great Round Walk, please request maps at the Scenic World ticket office. Upon your return, you will be grateful for Scenic World’s small café for takeaway, or the open-air restaurant overlooking the Jamison Valley in the Blue Mountains.

Tread Lightly Eco Tours (Nature Base Touring)

Phone: 02 47 881 229

Are you eager to see remote places beyond imagination? Experience the oldest rainforest, tallest waterfalls and deepest canyons? Camera in hand, are amazing views your obsession?

Then take a fully guided bushwalk or 4WD eco tour with Tread Lightly eco tours, accredited specialists in environmental and cultural aspects of the Blue Mountain. Tread Lightly eco tours has achieved the most advanced accreditation by using the system of best practice and minimal impact. Tread Lightly is proud of their very low carbon foot print.

Tread Lightly Eco Tours Blue Mountains

Owner, Tim Tranter has lived in the Blue Mountains all his life and is a walking wealth of knowledge of geology, fauna and flora. For international travellers seeking to explore the Australian bush in the World Heritage National Park, a day with Tim will provide the experience of a lifetime.

Leura Blue Mountains Health & Wellbeing

Body & Being & Sanctuary Day Spa

Address: 173a The Mall
Phone: 02 4784 3498

Body & Being is the spot for luxurious quality treatments, including massage therapies, facials and rejuvenation packages. Pampering will take on new meaning for you at this spa. Owner Jivan Harito customises one-of-a-kind products to meet your specific skincare needs. Pampering will take on new meaning for you at this Blue Mountains wellness centre.

Lilianfels Blue Mountains Resort & Spa

Address: Lilianfels Avenue, Echo Point
Phone: 02 4780 1200

Though a few kilometres beyond the boundaries of Leura, we’ve included Lilianfels Blue Mountains Resort & Spa because of its matchless service and luxurious setting.
The door to the Spa opens, like a portal, to a distinctive, perhaps forgotten time and place. A respectful quiet, an intentional calm floats up the stairway. Spices and flowers – a fragrance wafts by faintly as one descends the steps.

Bottles and candles, teas and bush flowers…. oils, soaps, and bath salts sit upon the shelves, grouped artistically in twos and threes. A tranquil waiting lounge…. flickering candlelight…. refreshing organic tea and fresh fruit. The staff speaks in subdued voices. In the Spa, a concept of restorative healing comes together – a holistic approach for body and mind.. . . Australian Dreaming

Lilianfels offers many recreational amenities, including tennis courts and indoor and outdoor pools with an infinity edge overlooking the Jamison Valley in the beautiful Blue Mountains National Park. For outdoor lovers, Lilianfels arranges mountain bikes, daily guided bushwalks and 4-wheel drive eco tours.

York Fairmont Resort - Health & Recreation Centre

Address: 1 Sublime Point
Phone: 02 4784 4144

For those who want to be spoiled, York Fairmount truly understands the need to unwind and rejuvenate after a gruelling week at work. To that end, they have a number of treatments. For the stressed out, massage and hydrotherapy are available, and for the beautiful, facial or body treatments, including mineral salt scrubs and herbal body wraps, are the remedies. Couples can be pampered together in the twin massage room. This Blue Mountains resort’s Healthy Day package is a perfect getaway for a group of friends who want pampering in a terrific setting. The package includes a buffet lunch in Jamison’s Restaurant.

For the fitness buffs, choose from a host of invigorating activities including golf, archery, swimming, aqua-aerobics, tennis and squash.

Leura Blue Mountains Galleries

Michael White Art

Address: Shop 5,148 The Mall
Phone: 02 4784 3017

The Michael White gallery is located behind the Post Office Restaurant and next to the post office. It contains a substantial and striking exhibition of White’s original oils, many painted on the finest Belgian linen. The contemporary gallery is large, so there is plenty of room to step back and take in the full effect of his technique and his varied choice of colours.

White captures many scenes, some in muted tones reflecting a brilliant moon shimmering over a calm ocean or a bold escarpment sunset in stunning vivid colours. In 2006, he focussed upon the American Southwest – remote butte mountains or snow-capped peaks in the far distance of a Colorado landscape. He seized upon and conveyed strikingly the massive size of America’s New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona in these recent works, some wall size, others framed miniature scenes.

His most recent works are of northern New South Wales and Queensland — vibrant, almost shimmering eucalypt groves at sunset or at sunrise. On his website, you will find examples of his newest works as this artist is a constant and prolific one.

In all, the theme of nature echoes throughout Michael White’s work.

Seeger Gallery

Address: 175 A (upstairs) The Mall
Phone: 02 4784 2382

On your visit to Leura you must visit Seeger’s boutique-style gallery in the heart of The Mall. Climb the steps at 175A where you enter an eclectic world of contemporary art and design. The intimate space with its high ceilings and decorative artefacts of a 19th century building is inviting and warm, and featured works are displayed with feeling and drama. Gallery owners Sophie and Gary Seeger have captured the significance of each artist.

Some works are bold, capturing in black and white oils the wild and exciting expression of sea and shore. Another explores charming Blue Mountains narratives. Distinct and unpredictable Indigenous art, mysterious and moody landscapes, mixed-media pastels – all confirm the breadth and distinctive style of artists featured by Seeger Gallery. Included in their featured works are ceramics and glass art which will enhance your prized collection.

Seeger Gallery

Gallery owners Sophie and Gary Seeger envision a much broader concept than the oft traditional gallery. Their goal is to connect fresh talent and art with those who wish to start or grow a collection. They have created a space and state of mind where personal reflection through art is de rigueur.

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