Katoomba Heritage & Art Deco Town Walk
Explore Katoomba's remarkable Art Deco streetscape, heritage hotels, and the café culture that has made this mountain town the social and cultural hub of the Blue Mountains.
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Katoomba Street
Katoomba Street is one of Australia's finest Art Deco commercial strips — the 1930s buildings that replaced the original timber shops give the mountain town a distinctive urban character unusual for a rural centre.
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Carrington Hotel
The Carrington Hotel (1883) is the Blue Mountains' grandest Victorian hotel — built to accommodate the wealthy Sydneysiders who came by train to escape the summer heat, it still operates as a luxury hotel.
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Katoomba Art Deco Cinema
The art deco cinema precinct gives Katoomba its unique atmosphere — vintage clothing shops, antique dealers, and independent bookshops occupy the heritage buildings around the cinema.
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Edge Maxvision Cinema
The Edge Cinema shows an IMAX film about the Blue Mountains geology — watching the formation of the valleys and learning about 400-million-year-old Devonian sea floors now exposed as cliff faces provides essential context.
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Katoomba Falls Road Lookout
A short walk from the town centre reaches the clifftop — Katoomba Falls drops from the plateau rim into the Jamison Valley, and the Ruined Castle rock formation is visible kilometres away across the valley.
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Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
The cultural centre houses a gallery of Blue Mountains art — from the 19th-century painters who popularised the mountains to contemporary Aboriginal artists continuing the tradition of representing Country.