Lismore Official spatial — evidence class · Lismore · NSW
Protesters Falls
Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it
Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
Public land — inside Nightcap National Park. No published track reaches it — the lawful ground to it is a chain of parcels.
Being at this point is lawful on the records below. Getting there is a separate question, answered route by route — and each route carries its own verdict and its own caveats.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
What this place is A definition, then the record
A waterfall — a step in a watercourse steep enough that the water falls clear of the bed rather than running down it. The step is usually a band of harder rock the creek has been unable to cut through as fast as the softer rock below, so the drop moves slowly upstream over time and leaves a gorge behind it.
No watercourse the register names runs within range of Protesters Falls. The layer maps far more creeks than it has ever named, so that is a gap in the record rather than dry ground.
The point falls inside Nightcap National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class
The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.
The 1:100 000 geological series maps no unit over this point, so nothing here says what the rock is. That is a gap in the mapping and not flat, rockless ground.
The remnant vegetation mapping records no ecosystem over this point. That covers remnant vegetation only, so it is what the register says about ground that has been cleared, or is water, sand or rock — not a statement that nothing grows here.
No register consulted records how far the water falls, and nothing here estimates it. This place is published because a register says it is here, not because a rule found it.
On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions
| Claim | What the record says | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Name | "Protesters Falls" is a gazetted register entry. | Gazetted — evidence class |
| Tenure | Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "NATIONAL PARK". | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Parcel | npws-600 | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Council area | This place sits inside Lismore, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Estate | Nightcap National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW); IUCN category II; 8,163 ha as gazetted; no encumbrance recorded. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Watercourse | No named watercourse in the snapshot runs within range of this point. The layer maps many creeks it has never named. | — |
| Feature | Recorded as a waterfall in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. | Official spatial — evidence class |
Where it is
Map
Map of Protesters Falls and the starts of the 2 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
Every figure the map would draw — parcel references, distances, bearings and the crossing gap — is written out in full on this page, so nothing is only visible on the map. If the map does not load, nothing has been lost.
Is there a track to it No published way within range
No vetted way the managing authority publishes comes within range of this point. That is a fact about the access record, not about the ground: an unmapped pad may well exist, and this site will not invent one on the strength of that.
Approaches — one page each 2 published of 4 computed
4 ways in were computed and 2 are published here. The rest either reach the same ground from a few hundred metres away — the same drive and the same walk — or reach no lawful chain at all, which is only worth saying when nothing else does.
Protesters Falls from Protestors Falls (Entry-Entryx 01
Statutory inference · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class protesters-falls--from-protestors-falls-entry-entryx-01- Verdict
- Lawful, nothing to flag
- One way
- 1010.6 m
- Caveats
- none
A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.
Protesters Falls from Protestors Falls (Stone Start-Falls) 06
Statutory inference · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class protesters-falls--from-protestors-falls-stone-start-falls-06- Verdict
- Lawful, nothing to flag
- One way
- 1479.8 m
- Caveats
- none
A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.
Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date
Nobody looked. No authority in this state publishes its alerts as data, so this page can tell you nothing at all about current conditions here — not that there are none. Check with the service that manages the area before you go.
On Country
No registered cultural heritage party boundary in the published dataset covers this point. That is the state of the dataset, not a statement that no party has an interest here.
A cultural heritage party boundary and a native title claim are different legal things. This page never conflates them, and it publishes neither as a permission.
All land and waters in Queensland carry a duty of care under s.23 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) — including here. Cultural heritage site locations are restricted by law (ss.38–46), deliberately, for site protection. This site holds party boundaries only and will never republish site locations. Check the public register and, where in doubt, seek guidance from the Aboriginal party for the area.
Searching a register does not of itself satisfy the duty of care.
Rules here — derived from tenure National Park · statutory inference
This point sits on protected estate. In Queensland that ordinarily means no dogs or pets, no open fires outside provided facilities, no camping outside designated areas, no drones without authority, and nothing taken. These follow from the tenure and the legislation that governs it — they are statutory inference, not a copy of a sign.
Statutes relied on: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld) and its regulations for protected estate; Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 for watercourse beds; Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) ss.23 and 38–46 for the duty of care and for why site locations are never republished here.
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Protesters Falls, Nightcap National Park
- Lot on plan
- npws-600
- Coordinates
- -28.56507, 153.30107 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- waterfall
What this place was read from
- New South Wales local government area boundaries — © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- NPWS managed land (New South Wales) — © State of New South Wales CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-24
- NPWS Asset Infrastructure — Track Section — © State of New South Wales (NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-26
- Geographical Names Register of New South Wales — © State of New South Wales (Geographical Names Board of NSW) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-26