Ritcher's Cave Long Walk (8.2km)

This is a long walk on firetrails to find the cave, if you want to find the cave's with a shorter walk, get directions for Ritcher's Cave Short Walk.

This has plenty of lovely rainforest and elevation gain so its great for getting fit. Finding the caves themselves can be a bit challenging so we advise if you are going to find the caves let someone know where you are going and when you are expected back. Allow a half day for this walk.

It is a lot of fun scrambling over the rocks at the base of the cliff, be very careful of your fitting as this is not a well travelled walk and there are large sections of honeycombed rock that have fallen and may be thinner than you think. The walk to the caves themselves is less of a bushwalk and more of a bushbash - you need to follow the gps map above.

Elevation change: Up 350m, Down 350m

1. Start on Yarramalong Road, this looks and feels like you are parking on private property, park near the fence: -33.267469898574355, 151.33615493774414 Google Maps Link

2. You have arrived at the campsite, head to the back of the campsite to the east until you see the path, slightly south east: -33.27565, 151.3145 Google Maps Link

3. Continue along the track until you get to a large rock platform, the path down to the caves is just before this in the empty riverbed/ ravine, that looks too steep to be a path, some bum shuffling is called for. Once down continue along the cliff line, just below the 250m contour, there is a bit of climbing involved occasionally: -33.27565, 151.3145 Google Maps Link

4. Head back up another ravine after the caves end to the road: -33.27629, 151.31168 Google Maps Link

5. Turn right onto the road and head back to the start: -33.27579, 151.31147 Google Maps Link