Public Trails Computed from official land records

Brisbane Official spatial — evidence class · Brisbane · QLD

Simpsons Falls

No lawful route approaches were tested; none carried a right of passage

Gazetted name -27.46599, 152.95451 waterfall

Access verdict · Unconfirmed · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

No lawful approach to this place could be established from the public record.

Every entry point tested ends at land the public has no established right to cross. This page publishes the refusal and the reason, and no route line of any kind.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

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.

Simpsons Falls sits on West Ithaca Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 3.3 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every protected-area estate in the snapshot.

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is granite, mapped as Enoggera Granite (Rge) , late triassic in age. The survey describes it as: Biotite granite, granodiorite Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 100% — Open forest complex with Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata, Eucalyptus siderophloia or E. crebra or E. decolor, E. major and/or E. longirostrata, E. acmenoides or E. portuensis on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.3 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class

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

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "Simpsons Falls" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Freehold, recorded as "Freehold". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 8RP203445 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Brisbane, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot. —
Watercourse West Ithaca Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 3.3 m away. Official spatial — evidence class
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 Simpsons Falls and the starts of the 2 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

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 Measured in plan and in section

The way reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

Simpson Falls passes 24 m from the recorded point. There is 5 m of climb or drop between the two, read at a 5.0 m contour interval.

Both gaps are small enough that the way is a way to this place, not merely one near it.

Approaches — one page each 2 published of 91 computed

91 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.

Simpsons Falls from Ghost Hole

Official spatial · Unconfirmed — evidence class simpsons-falls--from-ghost-hole
Verdict
Unconfirmed
One way
not published
Caveats
none

No lawful chain was established from this entry. The route page states why, and publishes no legs.

Simpsons Falls from Sir Samuel Griffith Drive

Official spatial · No lawful route — evidence class simpsons-falls--from-sir-samuel-griffith-drive
Verdict
No lawful route
One way
not published
Caveats
none

No lawful chain was established from this entry. The route page states why, and publishes no legs.

Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Turrbal People — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. Official spatial — evidence class

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 no estate designation resolved

Conduct rules follow from tenure and the legislation that governs it. Nothing specific is inferred here, which means you should read the signs, not that no rules apply.

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
Simpsons Falls
Lot on plan
8RP203445
Coordinates
-27.46599, 152.95451 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
waterfall

What this place was read from