Parking
Small car park at the Pisgah Rock Walking Track start along Nepean Lookout Firetrail. The lot capacity and facilities are not documented.
Overview
About Erskine Creek via Pisgah Rock
Why go
- Open views from Pisgah Rock above Erskine Creek Gorge
- Rock slabs and pools at the creek junction
Heads up
- Exposed, poorly marked scramble with a disputed descent line
- Steep climb back from the creek
Erskine Creek via Pisgah Rock is a 1.8-mile (2.9-kilometre) out-and-back from the Pisgah Rock track car park to the Erskine and Lincoln creeks junction. The first 700 metres to the lookout follow a broad, easy path; the rest is a steep, exposed scramble down into the gorge. Allow about two hours and do it only if you have experience on rough, unmarked terrain. The short mileage disguises how much effort the descent and climb back take.
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The route
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Full mapElevation106–284 m
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Before you go
Parking
Safety
3 active Blue Mountains alerts
- ClosureRoads and tracks closed across Blue Mountains National ParkMany roads, fire trails and walking tracks across Blue Mountains National Park are closed; do not enter closed areas.Official details
- CautionPark-wide solid-fuel fire banA park fire ban is active across Blue Mountains National Park: campfires and solid-fuel barbecues and stoves are prohibited. - Gas and electric cookers are permitted, subject to safety rules.Official details
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Blue Mountains Tour Guide
Your drive to Erskine Creek via Pisgah Rock, narrated.
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Pisgah Rock: Lookout or Creek Scramble0:00 / 0:27
“You're approaching the Pisgah Rock track, a short walk to a sandstone ledge above Erskine Creek Gorge.”
Plays as you drive up to this trailhead in the Parkwolf Blue Mountains Tour Guide.
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Trail guide
Hiking Erskine Creek via Pisgah Rock
From lookout to creekPisgah Rock is an open, unfenced platform above Erskine Creek Gorge.
Pisgah Rock is an open, unfenced platform above Erskine Creek Gorge. The maintained lookout path ends here. The continuation follows an informal footpad through rocky clefts and cliff bands. It is faint, poorly marked and exposed, and accounts disagree about the best line through the steepest section. The stored line follows the mapped informal footpath closest to the creek; it ends about 40 metres short of the junction because the final approach is not mapped clearly. If the tread disappears, turn back instead of searching for a way down.
At the lower bend, rocky slabs, pools and creek channels sit below enclosing cliffs. Retrace your route to the car park; the same steep ground makes the climb back to Pisgah Rock the hard part. The creek walk that continues toward Jack Evans Track is a separate, much longer off-track circuit and is not included here.
A starting point for older bushwalksEarly bushwalkers used nearby Attic Cave as an overnight stop before descending to Erskine…
Early bushwalkers used nearby Attic Cave as an overnight stop before descending to Erskine Creek and continuing farther into the bush. At the creek, frame the foreground slabs and a pool with the enclosing cliffs to show how tightly the gorge closes around the water.
Access and restrictionsStart at the small Pisgah Rock Walking Track car park on Nepean Lookout Firetrail.
Start at the small Pisgah Rock Walking Track car park on Nepean Lookout Firetrail. The lot's capacity and facilities are not documented. Pisgah Rock is unfenced, and the creek descent is an informal scramble with no reliable markers. Dogs are not permitted in this national park.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Blue Mountains
58 sightingsGrey KangarooMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
43 sightingsWombatMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
18 sightingsRed-necked WallabyMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
53 sightingsSwamp WallabyMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
23 sightingsBrushtail PossumMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
30 sightingsRing-tailed PossumMost seen around 7 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Blue Mountains. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
