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Gold Coast Hinterland · QLD

Bellaringa Lookout

Track to nearby a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name A — provenance grade A: Gazetted / register Difficulty: 3 of 5 -28.22417, 153.27361 Springbrook National Park · National Park lookout
  • A Gazetted / register — The fact is itself a statutory record.
  • B Official spatial record — Read from a maintained government layer.
  • C Statutory inference — Law applied to B-grade records; not ground-truthed.
  • D Community record — Community sources; labelled, never blended into A–C.

Access verdict · tier 1 of 4 · confidence B (official spatial record, the weakest grade in the chain)

Public land — inside Springbrook National Park. A formal track reaches it.

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 tier and its own caveats.

  1. 1 · Formal track A managed track on public estate, end to end. Walk it. This page is here.
  2. 2 · Public estate, no track Lawful to be there; unmanaged terrain and route caveats below.
  3. 3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published.
  4. 4 · No lawful route Enclosed by land the public has no right to cross. No route published.

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A lookout — a place built or cleared to be looked out from — a platform, a railing, a break in the trees at the edge of a fall. The register names the viewing place itself, not what is visible from it, so what a lookout looks over is not something this site can read off the record.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Bellaringa Lookout. 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 Springbrook National Park, designated National Park. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

On the record — what the registers actually say Dataset versions in the footer

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "Bellaringa Lookout" is a gazetted register entry. A — provenance grade A: Gazetted / register
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Parcel 5AP19371 B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Estate Springbrook National Park, designated National Park. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
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 lookout in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

Where it is

Map

Context map for Bellaringa Lookout: parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around the point.

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 passes this place B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

Twin Falls Circuit passes 14 m from the recorded point. There is 19 m of climb or drop between the two, read at a 1.0 m contour interval. The contours give the height between them and never which way round it is, so this is a separation and not a descent to plan.

The way comes close enough to be a way to this place without the record establishing that it ends at it. A register gives a feature one coordinate and a feature is not a point, so the two measurements above are the whole of the claim: how far off the way passes, and what height separates the two. Nothing here says the last of that gap can be crossed. Whether there is a lawful way to that way is a separate question, and the approaches below are where it is answered.

Approaches — one page each 9 published of 64 computed

64 ways in were computed and 9 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.

Bellaringa Lookout from Barracks Driveway

B · tier 1 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-barracks-driveway
Verdict
tier 1
One way
561.8 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.

Bellaringa Lookout from Best Of All Lookout Carpark

B · tier 1 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-best-of-all-lookout-carpark
Verdict
tier 1
One way
2269.0 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.

Bellaringa Lookout from Bilborough tower east

B · tier 1 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-bilborough-tower-east
Verdict
tier 1
One way
1717.4 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.

Bellaringa Lookout from formed sealed track off Repeater Station Road

B · tier 1 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-formed-sealed-track-off-repeater-station-road
Verdict
tier 1
One way
2152.9 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.

Bellaringa Lookout from Lyrebird Range Road

B · tier 2 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-lyrebird-range-road
Verdict
tier 2
One way
2147.2 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Bellaringa Lookout from Old School Road

B · tier 1 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-old-school-road-2
Verdict
tier 1
One way
1542.4 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.

Bellaringa Lookout from Repeater Station Road

B · tier 2 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-repeater-station-road
Verdict
tier 2
One way
2680.7 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Bellaringa Lookout from Twin Falls Circuit

B · tier 1 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-twin-falls-circuit
Verdict
tier 1
One way
337.5 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.

Bellaringa Lookout from walking track off Springbrook Road

B · tier 1 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-walking-track-off-springbrook-road-3
Verdict
tier 1
One way
1075.8 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 in the footer

park_alert · Springbrook National Park

Toilets closed at Tallanbana trailhead (update 1 Jul): Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) have determined that visitor amenities situated at the Tallanbana trailhead are not performing to optimum standards.

Published by the managing authority. Follow the link for the current wording; this page carries only what the snapshot held.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Danggan Balun (Five Rivers) People — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

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 an inference, at grade C, 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
Bellaringa Lookout, Springbrook National Park
Lot on plan
5AP19371
Coordinates
-28.22417, 153.27361 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
lookout

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.