Valley Heights is a little township of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. It is virtually 70Â km (43Â mi) from Sydney and is located east of the township of Springwood. At the 2006 census, Valley Heights had a population of 1,337 people.
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 height of 300 to 320 metres (980â1,050Â ft) above sea level, the climate has been considered no question conducive to a big range of plants. The native ecological communities are fairly typical of supplementary Hawkesbury sandstone in the make public of shale transition forests, yet exhibit the local specificness we have inherit expect in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Current spread 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 yet to be steam era.