Narrow Neck Plateau

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Looking south along the Narrow Neck Plateau from the Narrow Neck Lookout in Katoomba. Megalong Valley is on the right, and Jamison valley on the left. One can see Glenraphael Drive climbing the plateau.

Mt Solitary, which juts into the Jamison Valley and is joined to the Narrow Neck Plateau by a narrow ridge

The Narrow Neck Plateau is the eroded remnant of a sandstone layer 1000m above sea level situated immediately south-west of Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia in the Blue Mountains. The neck separates the Jamison Valley (to the east) from the Megalong Valley (to the west).

[edit] Description

Accessible by car over a short dirt road (Glenraphael Drive) from Katoomba, the Narrow Neck is a popular walking, bike riding and climbing location and offers several walking descent routes to the adjacent valleys. The most popular of these is the Golden Stairs, a rough descent of approximately 200m to join the Federal Pass. This opens up the Jamison Valley for popular day walks to sites such as Mount Solitary and the Ruined Castle. The neck juts southwards from Katoomba for a distance of some ten kilometres and ends at Clear Hill, overlooking the Wild Dog Mountains. Castle Head promontory points towards the Ruined Castle, a small rock formation between Castle Head and Mount Solitary.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Sydney and Blue Mountains Bushwalks, Neil Paton (Kangaroo Press) 2004, pp.222-228

[edit] See Also

• Katoomba
• Jamison Valley
• Megalong Valley
• Mount Solitary

[edit] External Links

• "Blue Mountains Wilderness", by Harry Loots. From the April 1997 issue of the newsletter of the Harbourside Group of SGAP.

• Narrow Neck Plateau is at coordinates 33°45′37″S 150°15′55″E / -33.76035833, 150.2652667 (Narrow Neck Plateau)Coordinates: 33°45′37″S 150°15′55″E / -33.76035833, 150.2652667 (Narrow Neck Plateau)

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