Valley Heights, New South Wales

Valley Heights New South Wales
Valley Heights
Coordinates	33°42′S 150°35′E / 33.700°S 150.583°E / -33.700; 150.583
Population	1,211 (2016 census)[1]
Postcode(s)	2777
Elevation	310 m (1,017 ft)
Location	70 km (43 mi) W of Sydney CBD 33 km (21 mi) E of Katoomba
LGA(s)	City of Blue Mountains
State electorate(s)	Blue Mountains
Federal division(s)	Macquarie
Localities around Valley Heights: Springwood Springwood Hawkesbury Heights Springwood Valley Heights Warrimoo Springwood Megalong Valley Warrimoo

Valley Heights is a small township of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. It is about 70 km (43 mi) from the Sydney central business district and is located east of the township of Springwood. At the 2006 census, Valley Heights had a population of 1,337 people.^[2]

Valley Heights developed its own piece of the ridgeline that has been the main route west from Sydney since colonial history, and has some strong evidence of a rich pre-colonial inhabitance. At an elevation of 300 to 320 metres (980–1,050 ft) above sea level, the climate has been considered very conducive to a huge range of plants. The native ecological communities are fairly typical of other Hawkesbury sandstone with shale transition forests, yet exhibit the local specificness we have come to expect in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Current development is restricted by council reserves and National Park

Valley Heights has a railway station, rail museum and the historic Gatekeepers cottage where the gatekeeper employed by the railway lived in the early steam era.