I'd appreciate a suggestion of a nice, short (1-2 hrs.) hike in the Blue Mountains. This will be at the end of September. Would love to see wildflowers if they'll be around then.

Thanks.

Look I'd suggest the amazing circular walk from Wentworth Falls - but takes too long for your time frame. Ditto the Giants Staircase down to Jaimeson Valley and up on the this or that at Kuranda.

But what do I know. Why don't you do a google? There's a website - pops up immediately - as easy as easy can be:

www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au

Thanks, Fuzzylogic. About how long does it take for each of the walks you recommend? The walks that fit in our time frame are: Princes Rock Walk, Weeping Rock-Fletchers Lookout Track, Govetts Leap descent, Mount Banks Track, Blue Pool track, Euroka-Nepean River Track, Furber Steps-Scenic Railway, Rocket Point Lookout Track, Cliff Top Track, Fairfax Heritage Track, Jack Evans Track, and Overcliff-Undercliff Track. (Wow! That's a lot.)

Any recommendations out of these? It sounds like Rocket Point will have some nice wildflowers. Has anyone been on that hike?

You have to do a walk that goes into the valley/gorge.The most convenient one is the furber steps-scenic railway...instead of walking up a zillion steps you catch the railway out of the valley.

For wildflowers you have to walk on the ridge..along the sandstone heath..I would suggest doing the farfax heritage from the visitors centre at Blackheath.Don't expect a riot of colour...it isn't keukenhoff.

Last time I was there the govetts leap descent was closed.

Agree, johhj, about a valley descent. I am not familiar with the Furber Steps - did once set out on the Giant Stairway-Scenic Railway circuit and realised half way down that I didn't have time to complete it and so retraced my steps!! Medium difficulty would be right!

Posting a link I found when looking up Furber Steps which might be of interest to Judilie.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/New-South...500196940.html

And OP - another option is to go down to the Jamieson valley floor by one of the mechanised options - and then maybe do the boardwalk which has labelled trees and plaques with historical info - then there's a path under the cliff you can take for as long as you have time, before turning tail and returning to take the same or the other mechanised way back up to the top.

It's lovely if busy-ish. Don't know about the wildflowers. It's the right time of year but don't know if it's the best place to see them.

If you are going to be in the Sydney area for a while and have transport you might also check out Kur-ing-gai National Park and Royal NP (both on the nat parks website previously mentioned).

Sept is a great time to be in Sydney - it's pretty perfect right now - so enjoy your walk, wherever it is.

Cheers.

I'd secong Ku-ring-gai National Park walks - it's a beautiful area!

I don't think we'll have time to go to both Ku-ring-gai and the Blue Mountains. Would you recommend the former instead of the latter? I suppose we could keep our rental car for another day and try to do both. Can Ku-ring-gai be seen in a half day?

How about the Ku ring gai Wildflower Gardens if that is what you want to see. There a bush walks from here too. They are in St Ives. Best to have a car to get there.

http://www.kmc.nsw.gov.au/go/facilit...dflower-garden