Protected areas 7 estates holding 221 places. Grouped by designation, because which kind of estate a
place sits in decides what may be done there — a state forest is not a national park, and the
register does not treat them as interchangeable.
An estate is where a place is , never a statement that the public may walk in it.
Whether there is a lawful way in is answered on each place's own page.
What this page will never do No user pins
Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute and carries a grade, A to C.
Community names are quarantined at grade D and labelled as such. Nothing on this page was
dropped on a map by a stranger.
No invented lawfulness
Where tenure cannot be confirmed from the public record, the page says so instead of
endorsing the route or quietly hiding it. Where no lawful corridor exists at all, none is
published — the refusal is the answer.
No safety pretence
A tier is a tenure verdict, not a difficulty or safety rating. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and
flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.
Sources, licences and dataset versions qld-ach-party-boundaries 2026-08-16
qld-dcdb-cadastre 2026-08-22
qld-lidar-contours 2026-08-22
qld-local-government-areas 2026-08-22
qld-park-alerts 2026-08-16
qld-place-names 2026-08-16
qld-protected-areas 2026-08-16
qld-qpws-access 2026-08-16
qld-roads-and-tracks 2026-08-22
qld-watercourse-lines 2026-08-22
qld-waterfall-points 2026-08-16
Every figure on this site is computed from the snapshots above. Nothing here is live: a dataset
is only as current as its snapshot date, and a date that has aged is a reason to distrust the
page, not the source.
OpenStreetMap waterway=waterfall nodes (naming overlay only) — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (extract of 2026-08-16) (ODbL-1.0)
; Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party boundaries (boundaries only) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; QPWS park alerts (regional RSS) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Protected areas of Queensland (estate polygons) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland roads and tracks (named road centrelines) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland watercourse lines and water bodies — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland waterfall points (Foundation Data) — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) (CC-BY-4.0)
.
Shipped with the site rather than consulted for a verdict, and credited separately for that
reason: Noto Sans Regular map label glyphs (Latin ranges) — © The Noto Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1)
.
QLD bed-passage policy (grade C): Land Act 1994 (Qld) s 13A — land on the watercourse side of a non-tidal boundary is the property of the State, despite the alienation of the land. State ownership of a bed is not a public right of way: this is
a statutory inference made by this site, not a finding of any court or authority.
What counts as arriving:
for a cave, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates
the two
;
for a lookout, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates
the two
;
for a mountain, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 5 m of height separates
the two
;
for a peak, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 2 m of height separates
the two
;
for a waterfall, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates
the two
;
for a waterhole, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates
the two
. Both gaps are published on every route, so the rule can be checked against the answer.
A leg of a chain is named for a way where a mapped way runs within 25 m of the leg for at least 70% of its length. That tolerance absorbs
the difference between a straight leg and a bending survey; it is not a claim about how
accurately any position is known, and naming a way changes no verdict.
Community names come from OpenStreetMap under ODbL and are quarantined at grade D: they are
labelled as community record and never blended into the graded chain that produces a verdict.