Bullaburra
Suburb
Minnatonka Falls, Bullaburra
Interactive map of Bullaburra
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
LGA	City of Blue Mountains
Location	95 km (59 mi) W ofSydney CBD 10 km (6.2 mi) E ofKatoomba
Government
• State electorate	Blue Mountains
• Federal division	Macquarie
Elevation	769 m (2,523 ft)
Population
• Total	1,300 (2021 census)[2]
Postcode	2784
Suburbs around Bullaburra Blue Mountains National Park Blue Mountains National Park Lawson Wentworth Falls Bullaburra Lawson Blue Mountains National Park

Bullaburra is a small town in the state ofNew South Wales,Australia, in theCity of Blue Mountains. It is one of the towns that stretch along the route of theMain Western railway line andGreat Western Highway which pass over theBlue Mountains, west ofSydney. Bullaburra used to have a service station but it was demolished in 2008. Bullaburra is anAboriginal word meaningclear day.

Bullaburra lies west ofLawson, and east ofWentworth Falls. The population together was 1,300 at the 2021 census.^[3] Bullaburra has arailway station served byNSW TrainLink'sBlue Mountains Line, and a playground. Two reserves, Red Gum Park and SirHenry Parkes Park, are nearby, Red Gum Park being on the south side of the town. Minnatonka Falls are a feature of the park. TheBlue Mountains National Park, which is aWorld Heritage Site, is situated not far to the north and south of the town.

In late colonial times, the land in the area was once held by SirHenry Parkes, who called it the "Village of Colridge".

In the 1920s, Sydney developer Arthur Rickard subdivided the land. He named it Bullaburra, an Aboriginal word meaning "blue sky" or "fine weather," with the name officially adopted as the railway station opened in 1925. It developed as a small, residential settlement, distinct from the larger towns of the upper Blue Mountains.

Total Servo was opened in Bullaburra in 1950. The service station was built on Coronia Road and sold several brands of fuel over the years and was locally known as the "Grumbling Tum" during the 1980s for a time. The service station was demolished in 2008 and the site has been vacant or a worksite since.

A walking track was constructed through the area in 1931. The Railway Department had agreed to supply electricity to the Blue Mountains Shire Council from the power station atLithgow and a transmission line was put through fromBlackheath toLawson with a track to provide maintenance access. The authorities then decided to promote this track as a walking trail, which was duly opened on 21 November 1931. The surveyor who planned the track was A. Bruce, as a result of which the track eventually became known asBruce's Walk. It passed through the north side of Bullaburra on the way to Lawson.

A pamphlet was published to publicise the walk, which passed through a variety of scenery, including glens and ridges. However, fromWorld War II onwards, the track was forgotten and neglected. Parts of the track were also blocked off when the council constructed Greaves Creek dam in 1942 as a local water supply. Much later, however, a local walker named Dick Rushton found a copy of the pamphlet published in 1931 and set out to clear and mark the track. In 1980, he led a party of walkers along the section of track between Bullaburra and Wentworth Falls, and in 1983 he created a written guide to the track.

By 1986, Bruce's Walk had come to the attention of two other walkers, Jim Smith and Wilf Hilder, who organised a group of volunteers to clear the track between Bullaburra and Wentworth Falls. In the process, they found many artefacts and features, including signs, shelter caves, seats and picnic tables. This part of the track was officially opened on 24 May 1986, by Alderman David Lawton. The opening was attended by 118 people, including Dick Rushton, who was by then eighty years old.^[4](This opening was condemned by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Mayor of the Blue Mountains City Council.) Other stretches of the track, from Wentworth Falls toMedlow Bath, were also cleared by the volunteers and opened later in 1986.^[5] The track, however, is still patchy and largely without signposts, and is not shown on the topographic map for the area.

On the south side of Bullaburra, Red Gum Park offers some scope for walks, with tracks starting from De Quency Road and Cottle Road. The main feature of the park is Minnatonka Falls, situated not far from the residential area in Boronia Road. Tracks go by the falls and part of the way down the creek that flows from the falls.^[6]

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  Cottage in Bullaburra
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  Minnatonka Falls after little rain
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  General store in Bullaburra, circa 1930s
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  The same shop in 2008
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  Cadia Park in Bullaburra, which was destroyed by bushfires in 1977

Blue Mountains Transit operates one bus route through Bullaburra:

• 690K: Springwood to Katoomba via Faulconbridge, Hazelbrook, Wentworth Falls and Leura^[7]

• Media related toBullaburra, New South Wales at Wikimedia Commons
• "History of Bullaburra", Mid-Mountains Historical Society
• Blue Mountains Tourism
• Blue Mountains City Council

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