Gold Coast Official spatial — evidence class · Gold Coast · QLD

Cedar Creek Falls

Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it

Gazetted name -27.89382, 153.18526 Tamborine National Park · National Park waterfall

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

Public land — inside Tamborine National Park. No published track reaches it — the lawful ground to it is a chain of parcels.

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 verdict and its own caveats.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

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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.

Cedar Creek Falls sits on Cedar Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 3.7 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside Tamborine National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class

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

The rock at the surface is sedimentary rock, mapped as Neranleigh-Fernvale beds (DCf) , devonian - carboniferous in age. The survey describes it as: Mudstone, shale, arenite, chert, jasper, basic metavolcanics, pillow lava, conglomerate Official spatial — evidence class

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

100% — Eucalyptus carnea or E. tindaliae, Corymbia intermedia +/- E. siderophloia or E. crebra woodland on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics 12.11.24 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class

No register records how far the water falls. What the contours record is this: the terrain rule fired here because the bed loses 15.0 m within 16.1 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 2.3 m of ground — 2.2 m down for every metre along the bed. That is a floor and not a total: the contour interval is the smallest drop this layer can show, so the face is at least this steep and may be far more. Statutory inference — evidence class

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	"Cedar Creek Falls" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	441NPW909	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Gold Coast, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	Tamborine National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 2,094 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 22 Oct 2021; first gazetted 28 Mar 1908; no encumbrance recorded.	Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse	Cedar Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 3.7 m away.	Official spatial — evidence class
Feature	Found by the terrain rule falls-rule/1, which fired because the bed loses 15.0 m within 16.1 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 2.3 m. A rule fired — nobody surveyed it.	Statutory inference — evidence class

Where it is

Map — covers Gold Coast

Map of Cedar Creek Falls and the starts of the 8 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

Panning stops just outside Gold Coast, because the map archive is published one council area at a time. Every other council area Public Trails covers has a map of its own.

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 Official spatial — evidence class

Cedar Creek Trail passes 31 m from the recorded point. There is 5 m of climb or drop between the two, read at a 5.0 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 8 published of 53 computed

53 ways in were computed and 8 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.