Jenolan Caves

Jenolan Caves CLOSED FOR MAJOR ROAD REPAIRS

Jenolan Caves are located approx. 3 hours West of Sydney, in the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
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One of the world’s oldest and most famous cave systems – Jenolan is a world of its own. Jenolan Caves are Australia's most spectacular caves and the largest that are open to the public. Jenolan Caves are also the world's oldest show caves at 340 million years old. We offer fantastic guided cave tours. Stay overnight in the magnificent heritage-listed Caves House or one of our more modern motel roo

ms. Dine in our historic Chisolm's Restaurant one of the last two Grand Dining Rooms in Australia. We have 52 rooms available at the property and daily tours of the caves. Visit our gift shop for a keepsake of your visit. We can cater for private group bookings, corporate functions, weddings and other large events.

❄️✨ Hello Winter ✨❄️Winter has arrived at Jenolan and pictured here is a dreamy throwback to a season when Caves House w...
01/06/2026

❄️✨ Hello Winter ✨❄️

Winter has arrived at Jenolan and pictured here is a dreamy throwback to a season when Caves House was dusted in snow, transformed into a true winter wonderland.

Soft white layers settled over the rooftops and gardens, turning the precinct into something straight out of a fairytale. ❄️✨

While we remain closed for now, we’re looking forward to sharing more of these winter moments with you and to welcoming you back to experience them in person when the time is right. 🤍

Pictured here is Caves House in a previous winter, dusted in snow.

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🍂🤎 A Gentle Goodbye to Autumn 🍂🤎As the final day of autumn settles over Jenolan, the landscape is entering its quiet tra...
31/05/2026

🍂🤎 A Gentle Goodbye to Autumn 🍂🤎

As the final day of autumn settles over Jenolan, the landscape is entering its quiet transition. There’s a stillness in late autumn, cooler air, longer shadows, and that soft, golden light that lingers just a little shorter each day. It’s a reminder that the season is shifting, preparing for the calm and crispness of winter.

Even as the colour begins to fade, these moments hold their own kind of beauty, quieter, slower, and just as meaningful. 🍁

While Jenolan remains closed, we’ll continue to share glimpses of the changing seasons here, small windows into the atmosphere and natural rhythms that await your return. 🍂🤎

Pictured here is a Linden Tree nearing the end of its autumn display.

Image: Laura/JenolanCaves

Flora Friday! 🍄Some people find autumn to be a melancholy season, especially as it gets closer to winter, with trees she...
29/05/2026

Flora Friday! 🍄

Some people find autumn to be a melancholy season, especially as it gets closer to winter, with trees shedding their leaves and fungi more visible as they consume the detritus. 🍂

But look a little closer… the garden isn’t going to sleep just yet. Beneath the surface, life is already stirring. 🌱

Later winter and early spring flowering bulbs are already starting to send green shoots through the soil. A gentle reminder that even in the cooler seasons, nature is always moving forward.

What early signs of spring have you spotted in your garden? Tell us below 💬👇

Photo: Laura/JenolanCaves

🌟 Jenolan Memory Project Spotlight 🌟Some Jenolan memories stay with you long after the visit ends, shaped by discovery, ...
28/05/2026

🌟 Jenolan Memory Project Spotlight 🌟

Some Jenolan memories stay with you long after the visit ends, shaped by discovery, learning, and that quiet sense of wonder you never quite forget. Julie shared this special recollection:

“My first visit there was a school Science/Geography excursion when I was in Year 10. A bunch of us girls from North Sydney GHS stayed overnight in Caves House, in the downstairs rooms which were situated where the cafe now is. I remember simply loving the cave tours, seeing the Blue Lake, and writing a detailed report in an exercise book later on, which earned me full marks!” – Julie

From school excursions and first discoveries to moments of curiosity that spark a lifelong connection, Jenolan has always been a place where learning comes to life and where memories are made along the way.

💛 Do you have a Jenolan memory that still makes you smile?
We’d love to hear it.

📬 Share your story:
✨ Pick up a postcard at the Oberon Visitor Information Centre
💬 Comment your memory below
📧 Email us: [email protected]
📍 Oberon Visitor Centre – 48 Ross St, Oberon NSW | 🕒 Open daily 9:30am – 5pm

Postcards available for a limited time.

27/05/2026

Wildlife Wednesday!

If you’re a platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), feeding can be a frenzy, and it’s nice to stop for a break once in a while! 🍽

The platypus is an active hunter that searches energetically for prey – aquatic macroinvertebrates, or waterbugs – most of which live on rocks on the bottoms of streams, rivers and pools. 💦

Clouds of sediment can be a giveaway to a feeding platypus, who uses its ultra-sensitive bill to seek out yabbies, larvae of aquatic insects and other waterbugs as it stirs up bottom sediments. A platypus has both mechanoreceptors and electroreceptors in the skin of its bill, which help it detect tiny electric impulses given off by fine muscle movements as these small invertebrates dart away. ⚡

Next time you spot ripples on the water, you might be closer to a platypus than you think! 👀

Video: Anne/JenolanCaves

🌎 International Day for Biological Diversity 🌎Today, 22 May, is the United Nations International Day for Biological Dive...
22/05/2026

🌎 International Day for Biological Diversity 🌎

Today, 22 May, is the United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity. The theme - acting locally for global impact – major changes to protect our precious biodiversity can begin on a small, local scale to help ensure the future.

Why is biodiversity important? Biodiversity, an inventory of living species, can be fragile: currently, one million animals and plants are threatened with extinction.

Caves are home to a wide range of fascinating creatures adapted to life in darkness, although most people are unaware of their existence. Much of the biodiversity of caves is in fact yet to be discovered.

Jenolan’s world-class caves host several unusual species that live either all or part of their lives in caves, part of a unique subterranean ecosystem with each species dependent on others.

🦇 Cave bats feed on insects outside of the caves but sleep or hibernate within the caves.

🕷️ Tiny eyeless, colourless creatures like springtails feed on bat guano deposited in the caves, and in turn are food for underground predators like arachnids (opilionids, spiders and mites).

🕸️ Humans enter our caves for tours, maintenance and research. Methods are being trialled for the protection of cave spiders and their delicate webs during essential cave cleaning: spiders are located and covered carefully or otherwise protected while cleaning is in progress. Successful methods will be shared with the greater cave community, local action with a wider reach to protect these irreplaceable species.

What we protect here today helps safeguard biodiversity for tomorrow! 🌎

Photos:
1: Laetesia weburdi, a small spider named for Jenolan’s James Carvosso (‘Voss’) Wiburd (note the mistaken spelling!)

2: A tiny, cave-adapted springtail on a stalagmite in the Orient Caves

3: An Eastern Horseshoe-bat (Rhinolophus megaphyllus) on cave crystal in the Ribbon Cave

4: Plastic sheeting is draped across rocks to protect cave spiders and their fragile webs to protect them from mist or water.

Photo: Anne/JenolanCaves

🌿 Flora Friday 🌿As the air turns crisp, a few hardy blooms are still holding on, like the charming Australian Violet (Vi...
22/05/2026

🌿 Flora Friday 🌿

As the air turns crisp, a few hardy blooms are still holding on, like the charming Australian Violet (Viola hederacea). 💜

This shade-loving groundcover quietly flowers year-round, disappearing when conditions get tough, then popping back up from its underground stems when things improve.

A small but resilient reminder that nature always finds a way. 💜

Photo: Laura/JenolanCaves

🫖 Celebrating International Tea Day 🫖From picnics to fine china, tea has been part of the Jenolan experience for generat...
21/05/2026

🫖 Celebrating International Tea Day 🫖

From picnics to fine china, tea has been part of the Jenolan experience for generations.
International Tea Day celebrates the cultural heritage, health benefits and global importance of tea and here at Jenolan, that story stretches back over a century.

These images offer a glimpse through time:

☕ 1898 honeymoon picnic - captured on a round-the-world journey… look closely and you’ll spot teacups at the front

☕ Shelley china teacup - featuring the iconic Broken Column from Lucas Cave

☕ Shelley china teapot - also showcasing the Broken Column design

☕ Caves House dining hall (1900s) - one of the rare interior images from this elegant era

These beautifully detailed, highly collectable Shelley pieces were produced between 1920–1955 and form part of the Jenolan Caves Historical & Preservation Society collection. They were proudly displayed in the Guest Lounge of Caves House before being carefully packed away during renovations.

From simple picnic brews to elegant High Tea, tea has always brought people together at Jenolan.

💫 We’re looking forward to welcoming guests again when we reopen and bringing back High Tea at Caves House, a timeless tradition reimagined.

When High Tea returns, what would you love to see, taste or experience? 🍰🫖 Share your ideas below, we’d love to create something truly special together! 👇💛

Images supplied by Jenolan Caves Historical & Preservation Society.

📸 Images: JCH&PS

🐝 Happy World Bee Day! 🐝Today is all about celebrating the tiny workers that make a huge impact. Bees help maintain plan...
20/05/2026

🐝 Happy World Bee Day! 🐝
Today is all about celebrating the tiny workers that make a huge impact. Bees help maintain plant diversity across ecosystems worldwide and play a vital role in pollinating many of the food crops we enjoy. 🌸🍓

At Jenolan, we’re doing our bit to support these incredible pollinators. Many of the plants in our gardens have been carefully chosen to be bee-friendly, from native Tea Trees to Brachyscome and Hibbertia, providing important sources of nectar and pollen.

If you’d like to lend a helping hand at home, planting nectar-bearing species is a simple and powerful way to support local bee populations 💚

Let’s keep the buzz going, for our bees, our ecosystems, and our future!🌼🐝

Image 1: Native bee
Image 2: Hibbertia
Image 3: Brachyscome
Image 4: Tea Tree Flowers

Photos: Anne/JenolanCaves

Wildlife Wednesday! 🐦White-eared Honeyeaters (Nesoptilotis leucotis) have been active lately, a clear ‘chew chew chew’ g...
20/05/2026

Wildlife Wednesday! 🐦

White-eared Honeyeaters (Nesoptilotis leucotis) have been active lately, a clear ‘chew chew chew’ giving away their presence. 🔊

Aside from the bright white cheek feathers on the sides of their heads (the ‘ear’), their olive green and black plumage can make them hard to spot. A handsome bird, both males and females look alike, with the male slightly larger.

Fun fact: White-eared Honeyeaters make their cup-shaped nests out of vegetation but line their nests with fur or even human hair, if a suitable donor is nearby! 💇‍♀️

This species is one that whose nests are sometimes parasitised by cuckoos – could it be that comfy cozy little nest? 🤔

Photo: Anne/JenolanCaves

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