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Gold Coast Hinterland · Bellaringa Lookout

Bellaringa Lookout from Lyrebird Range Road

entry is a track 55 m of climb chain confidence B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record bellaringa-lookout--from-lyrebird-range-road
  • 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 2 of 4 · confidence B (official spatial record, the weakest grade in the chain)

A lawful approach from Lyrebird Range Road, with caveats.

The chain below runs entirely across land the public has an established right to be on. It is a legal line, not a path: nothing here has been surveyed on the ground.

  1. 1 · Formal track A managed track on public estate, end to end. Walk it.
  2. 2 · Public estate, no track Lawful to be there; unmanaged terrain and route caveats below. This page is here.
  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.

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -28.21677, 153.26235

That is Lyrebird Range Road, where the walk below begins — 2.1 km of it. Every link here goes to that coordinate and never to the feature itself, because a driving route to a waterfall is a driving route into the country above one.

-28.21677, 153.26235

The record does not say what reaches the start The roads layer leaves trafficability unstated on most of its rows, and it is unstated here. That is an absence of evidence, not an ordinary road: treat the last stretch as unresearched.

The coordinate is where the recorded way begins, read off the same layers as the walk. What the record says about a vehicle is above, and it describes this point rather than the drive to it. Whether the road is sealed, gated, or open today, and where a car may lawfully be left, are none of them things these records say — so treat the last few kilometres as unresearched, and the mapping service's route to them as its own work, not ours.

The chain, leg by leg Computed from cadastral geometry; never walked

Legs of the computed corridor, in order, with the grade of the record that made each one lawful
# Runs along Parcel / reference Mapped along it Distance Bearing Evidence
1 Road reserve 3772007 Repeater Station Road open 557.3 m 66.8° ENE B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
2 Road reserve 3775161 Repeater Station Road open 79.0 m 99.0° E B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
3 Protected estate 5AP19371 nothing mapped 312.4 m 163.5° SSE B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
4 Road reserve 3766231 Springbrook Road open 365.4 m 151.6° SSE B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
5 Road reserve 3762127 Springbrook Road open 64.9 m 153.2° SSE B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
6 Road reserve 3762241 nothing mapped 59.4 m 173.9° S B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
7 Road reserve 3762355 Springbrook Road open 58.7 m 203.9° SSW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
8 Road reserve 3770753 nothing mapped 403.6 m 172.0° S B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
9 Protected estate 5AP19371 nothing mapped 246.5 m 48.4° NE B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total 1085.7 m mapped 2147.2 m Chain confidence B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

Every leg above is computed from cadastral geometry. Nobody has walked it, and no part of it is a path on the ground: it is the line along which the public record establishes a right to be. Where a leg names a way, that is what a managing authority has mapped down the same ground — it says nothing more about your right to be there, which the parcel already settled.

Caveats — what kept this off tier 1

  • Corner-point junction. Two parcels in the chain meet at a single survey point. They are legally continuous public land, but the junction has no width on the ground.

Following it on the ground No steps, but the record maps ground here

at least 1¼ hours out and back

at least half an hour there at least three quarters of an hour back

55 m up and 142 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 142 m.

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.

Naismith's rule, and what it does not account for

What is mapped along this chain

A managing authority has surveyed a way along 1086 m of this 2147 m chain — about 51% of it. That is a statement about what is on the ground, not about your right to be there, which the parcels above already settled, and not a direction: no step below is measured along any of these ways.

  • Legs 1–2 Repeater Station Road B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    626 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Local Government Authority).

  • Legs 4–5 Springbrook Road B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    401 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Local Government Authority).

  • Leg 7 Springbrook Road B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    59 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Local Government Authority).

No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds — including where a way is mapped along it, because what was measured is the chain and not the way. Steps appear here only for a route that follows a surveyed way end to end.

How much climbing Read off the published contour layer

Distance along the route, 0 to 2145.0 m · height 727.0 to 814.0 m Read off 1.0 m contours along the route's own line B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total climb
55.0 m
Total descent
142.0 m
Steepest sustained
54.6% over 58.6 m
Contour interval
1.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
Contour crossings along the route, in order, as distance along the route against mapped height
Distance along Height
5.6 m 814.0 m
10.1 m 813.0 m
14.3 m 812.0 m
18.7 m 811.0 m
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2143.0 m 730.0 m
2143.5 m 729.0 m
2143.9 m 728.0 m
2145.0 m 727.0 m

The profile is the height the contour layer already records, read along the same line the legs above describe. It is not a survey of a path: nothing here says the ground between two contours is even, and a layer of 1.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 9 legs from Lyrebird Range Road, 2147.2 m in total.

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.

What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link

  • The destination sits on Springbrook National Park B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    Parcel 5AP19371, recorded tenure "National Park". Being at the destination and reaching it are separate questions, and this page answers only the second.

    Cadastre and protected-area estate layers Attribution licensed; see the footer

  • Leg 1: 3772007 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    557.3 m at 66.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3772007 Grade B

  • Leg 2: 3775161 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    79.0 m at 99.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3775161 Grade B

  • Leg 3: 5AP19371 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    312.4 m at 163.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 5AP19371 Grade B

  • Leg 4: 3766231 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    365.4 m at 151.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3766231 Grade B

  • Leg 5: 3762127 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    64.9 m at 153.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3762127 Grade B

  • Leg 6: 3762241 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    59.4 m at 173.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3762241 Grade B

  • Leg 7: 3762355 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    58.7 m at 203.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3762355 Grade B

  • Leg 8: 3770753 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    403.6 m at 172.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3770753 Grade B

  • Leg 9: 5AP19371 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    246.5 m at 48.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 5AP19371 Grade B

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest grade in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at grade C.

    Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time

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.

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