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Katoomba has a number of heritage-listed sites, including the following listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register: Blue Mountains National Park: Blue Mountains walking tracks [28] 10-14 Civic Place: Mount St Marys College and Convent [29] Katoomba Street: Carrington Hotel [30] [31] 59-61 Katoomba Street: Katoomba Post Office [32]
The Georgian Revival style of the state-built Katoomba Post Office (1910) was used as a model for a large series of new Post Offices built up to 1930 by the Commonwealth Department of Works and Railways. [1] [3] Katoomba Post Office was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 22 December 2000. [1]
The Great Western Highway is the main road that is proximate to the Jamison Valley. Katoomba Airfield is also located about 11.5 kilometres (7.1 mi) by road from the Katoomba Central Business District. The airfield is currently closed to airplanes and helicopters. The site remains available for use by emergency services.
West of Katoomba, there is a further 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) of dual carriageway on the River Lett Hill, and 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) of dual carriageway from Magpie Hollow Road at Old Bowenfels to Lidsdale State Forest. This was completed as follows: Lawson road widening and realignment – completed in 2006 [7] River Lett Hill – 2014/15
Yosemite is an unbounded locality within the locality of Katoomba and to the north of the township of Katoomba in the state of New South Wales, Australia in the City of Blue Mountains. It has been known as "Yosemite Valley", "Yosemite Park" and North Katoomba. Yosemite Valley Post Office was opened on 14 May 1928 and closed in 1956.
New South Wales. Road routes in New South Wales assist drivers navigating roads in urban, rural, and scenic areas of the state. Today all numbered routes in the state are allocated a letter (M, A, B or D) in addition to a one- or -two digit number, with 'M' routes denoting motorways, 'A' routes denoting routes of national significance, 'B' routes denoting routes of state significance, and 'D ...
The hotel's northern main entrance is landscaped with sweeping drives from Katoomba Street to the portico or colonnade of its front doors, terraced gardens and mature trees including two Bunya pines (Araucaria bidwillii) on the southern upper slope, silver birch (Betula pendula) and Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara) on the upper northern slope. [3]
The Katoomba to Mittagong Trail is a 132-km long-distance walking trail that starts in the Blue Mountains at Katoomba (New South Wales, Australia) and finishes at Mittagong in the Southern Highlands. Description