Located within Graces Glen in the upper Blue Mountains, Myer Falls is a small waterfall formed by Govetts Creek dropping over a series of ledges into a small pool.
The secluded pool is deep enough to swim, and while not hard to reach it’s remote enough that you’ll probably have it to yourself. It’s most easily entered at the opposite end to the waterfall, although the bank of the pool is a bit muddy.
Myers Fall was only formally named in September 1986 by the historian and bushwalking legend Jim Smith, at the suggestion of bushwalker Wilf Julius Hider, after Walter Harold Myers. Walter Myers was the Chief Electrical Engineer of NSW Railways from 1924 to 1946 and an early proponent of a large hydro-electricity scheme in the Snowy Mountain. He and Arthur Bruce proposed turning an electricity transmission maintenance track into a bushwalking track, which became Bruces Walk.
Getting to Myers Fall
There are a few ways of reaching Myers Fall, which is a short detour off the section of Bruces Walk between the old Katoomba Airstrip and Mount Hay Road. However, the quickest way to reach the waterfall and pool is from an electricity transmission maintenance trail off Mount Hay Road, After 900m, turn onto Bruces Walk which descends steeply down to Govetts Creek.
Follow the creek downstream; there’s a rough track on the right or you can walk along the creek to the top of Myers Falls (from here you need to scramble down the right-hand side of the waterfall).
Return the same way – or you can incorporate Myers Fall into a longer loop walk through Henson Glen.
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