Flying Fox Pass is a locality in the Barren Grounds Nature Reserve, in New South Wales, Australia. Overlooking the Kangaroo Valley, Flying Fox Pass is so named as it was the site of a Flying Fox cablecar used to transport valuable timber from the valley to the roads and rail to the north. Little remains of the Flying Fox, just a cement plinth and rusted remnants of the wire and winching equipment. A walking track extends to the pass, but dense vegetation growth precludes any vista from the site.
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