Cable car · Katoomba, Australia
Scenic Cableway
Scenic Cableway is a cable car near Katoomba, Australia. It climbs 197 m over 464 m, from 749 m to 946 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 94 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
76/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Scenic Cableway is scarier than 76% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 1 of 5 in Australia.
- Highest above the ground: about 94 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 212 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 393 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 27°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 182 m of the 464 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Scenic Cableway is near Katoomba, Australia, at 749 m above sea level (33.73349° S, 150.30073° E). From there it runs 464 m up to the top station at 946 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Nearby lines
- Scenic Railway funicular · 0.2 km away · rises 206 m
- Scenic Skyway cable car · 0.5 km away · rises 11 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.