Hazelbrook: Great Western Highway
The Blue Mountains define the setting of Hazelbrook — sandstone country and eucalypt bushland shape this linear township west of Sydney. The Great Western Highway is the principal road corridor through the settlement and a major link between Sydney and New South Wales’s Central West. The Main Western railway line also serves Hazelbrook, placing the town on a long-established transport route across the range. After the first European crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813, Cox’s Road was built across the range in 1814–15. Housing, local businesses and mature bushland line the modern corridor, giving Hazelbrook the character of a working Blue Mountains community.
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Hazelbrook straddles a sandstone ridge in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, and its position beside the Great Western Highway and Main Western railway has long linked it with Sydney and the mountain towns farther west. Eucalypt forest and deeply incised sandstone country shape the surrounding terrain. Blue Mountains National Park lies nearby and forms part of the UNESCO-listed Greater Blue Mountains Area, recognised for its extensive eucalypt landscapes. Hazelbrook retains the character of a settled mountain community along a historic transport corridor, with local bushwalking routes leading into the bushland. See how Hazelbrook fits within the wider Blue Mountains by browsing webcams nearby.
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New South Wales is widely known within Australia for Sydney Harbour, home to the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The state extends from the Pacific coastline across the Great Dividing Range to wide inland plains within the Murray–Darling Basin. Sydney is Australia’s largest city and a major centre for finance, arts and international travel, while inland districts are strongly associated with farming and long distances between towns. The Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, form part of a UNESCO World Heritage area of eucalyptus forests, sandstone escarpments and deep valleys. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how New South Wales relates to its coast, ranges and inland country.
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Australia’s terrain extends from tropical rainforests in the northeast to arid plains in the interior, producing dramatic climatic contrasts. The Great Dividing Range follows much of the eastern coast, while the Great Barrier Reef lies off Queensland in the Coral Sea and Uluru rises from the central desert. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples maintain living cultures whose connections to Country long predate European settlement. In Sydney, the sail-like Opera House, completed in 1973, stands beside one of the world’s best-known harbours. Discover further points of interest through webcams located across Australia.
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