The most spectacular waterfall along the Burgess Falls Track in Hazelbrook, Horseshoe Falls tumbles over a large, amphitheatre-like overhang. While the horseshoe-shaped amphitheatre gave the falls its name sometime in the early 1920s, it was formally re-named as Lyrebird Falls in 1970 by the Geographic Names Board in 1970… but its original name of Horseshoe Falls is still widely used.
You can walk under the enormous overhang and behind the waterfall.
It’s a permanent waterfall, but is best visited after decent rainfall; there’s also a small glow worm colony which you can see at night.
Just to add a bit more name-confusion, a few hundred metres of this waterfall is another, much smaller waterfall which is also called Horseshoe Falls on the topographic map (but doesn’t have an official name according to the Geographic Names Board)…
Getting to Horseshoe Falls / Lyrebird Falls (Hazelbrook)
A walking track was constructed from Oaklands Road to Horseshoe Falls via Lyrebird Glen in 1903, which is still the route in use today. The trailhead is about 1:30min drive from Sydney, or 5 minutes from Hazelbrook town centre. It’s about a one kilometre return walk, or 4.5km for the scenic Burgess Falls Track bushwalk which passes these falls.
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