Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah
Blue Mountains Botanic Garden
A cool-climate botanic garden at about 1,000 metres elevation, home to the living fossil Wollemi pine and alpine plants from around the world, with views over the valley.
The garden lies on Mount Tomah beside Bells Line of Road and is a branch of the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. It focuses on plants from cool climates in the Southern Hemisphere and includes a rock garden, a rhododendron garden and the Wollemi pine, the “dinosaur tree” discovered in 1994. The grounds are built into the hillside, and the restaurant terrace looks out over the northern side of the Grose Valley. Entry is free. It's about a 50-minute drive from Katoomba, with no public transport, and it can be combined with the northern self-drive route toward Richmond.
Opening hours
09:00–17:00 (until 16:30 in winter)
Nearby sights
- Pulpit Rock Lookout
- Govetts Leap Lookout
- Evans Lookout
- Grand Canyon Track
- Wentworth Falls
- Hydro Majestic Hotel
- Norman Lindsay Gallery
- Leura