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The Blue Mountains offer breathtaking views, rugged tablelands, sheer cliffs, deep, inaccessible valleys, enormous chasms, colorful parrots, cascading waterfalls, historic villages, and stupendous walking trails. In 2000, UNESCO classified it as a World Heritage Area. Although the Blue Mountains are where Sydneysiders go now to escape the humidity and crowds of the city, in the early days of the colony, the mountains kept at bay those who would explore the interior. In 1813, three explorers—Gregory Blaxland, William Charles Wentworth, and William Lawson—managed to conquer the cliffs, valleys, and dense forest, and cross the mountains (which are hardly mountains, but rather a series of hills covered in eucalyptus and ancient fern trees) to the plains beyond. There they found land the colony urgently needed for grazing and farming. The Great Western Highway and Bells Line of Road are the access roads through the region today—winding and steep in places, they are surrounded by the Blue Mountains and Wollemi national parks.
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194 Great Western Hwy.
Blackheath 2785 Map Distance: 12.5 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class: 
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AttractionsAustralian School of Mountaineering
Katoomba
166b Katoomba Street 2780 Distance: 13.1 mi. (from destination center) Penrith Whitewater Stadium
Cranebrook
McCarthy's Lane 2749 Distance: 13.1 mi. (from destination center) Vipassana Meditation Centre
Blackheath
212 Station St 2785 Distance: 13.3 mi. (from destination center) AirportsMajor Airports near Blue Mountains
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