Gold Coast Hinterland · QLD
Mount Cougal (East Peak)
No lawful route approaches were tested; none carried a right of passage
Access verdict · tier 3 of 4 · confidence D (community record, the weakest grade in the chain)
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.
- 1 · Lawful, nothing to flag Every leg is ground the public may cross, and nothing about the chain needs a warning. Whether a built track runs along it is said separately.
- 2 · Lawful, with caveats A lawful chain with at least one thing about it that has to be said first.
- 3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published. This page is here.
- 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 mountain — high ground rising clearly above what surrounds it, named by the register at a single coordinate somewhere on its high ground. Where the top of a mountain is, exactly, is not something a single coordinate settles, and whether the last of the climb can be walked is not something any register records.
No watercourse the register names runs within range of Mount Cougal (East Peak). 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 outside every protected-area estate in the snapshot.
On the record — what the registers actually say Dataset versions in the footer
| Claim | What the record says | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Name | "Mount Cougal (East Peak)" is a gazetted register entry. | A — provenance grade A: Gazetted / register |
| Tenure | No tenure record covers this point in the snapshot. Unresolved is published as unresolved. | — |
| Parcel | No cadastral parcel was resolved at this point. | — |
| Council area | The register files this place under no local government area. | — |
| Estate | This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot. | — |
| 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 mountain 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 Mount Cougal (East Peak): parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around the point.
What the colours mean
- 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 tier in words
- 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 are listed in the footer of this page.
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 1 published of 2 computed
2 ways in were computed and 1 is 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.
Mount Cougal (East Peak) from minimally formed natural track
D · tier 3 — provenance grade D: Community record mount-cougal-east-peak--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-2- Verdict
- tier 3
- 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 in the footer
No alert was published for this area in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open": many managing authorities publish no machine-readable status at all, so an absence of alerts is an absence of information.
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 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
- Mount Cougal (East Peak)
- Lot on plan
- not established from the cadastre
- Coordinates
- -28.23689, 153.32975 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- mountain
What this page will never do
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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.
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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.
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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.