Gold Coast Official spatial — evidence class · Gold Coast · QLD
Chiminya Creek
Lawful route — caveats lawful, with something that needs saying first
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record
Public land — inside Lamington 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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
What this place is A definition, then the record
A watercourse — the channel a creek or river runs in, named at one coordinate along a length that may run for kilometres. Whether there is water in it is not recorded, and neither is whether its bed may be walked — that is a question about the land the channel crosses, answered on this site by the tenure chain rather than by the name.
Chiminya Creek sits on Chiminya Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 0.4 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class
The point falls inside Lamington National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class
The point falls inside Gondwana Rainforests of Australia , a property inscribed on the World Heritage List. That is where the ground is, and it is not a statement about who may walk there — access is the tenure question above. Official spatial — evidence class
The rock at the surface is basalt, mapped as
Beechmont Basalt (Tlb) , oligocene - miocene in age. The survey
describes it as: Olivine basalt
Official spatial — evidence class
The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.
- 100% — Complex notophyll vine forest on Cainozoic igneous rocks, usually at altitude less than 600m 12.8.3 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class
On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions
| Claim | What the record says | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Name | "Chiminya Creek" is a gazetted register entry. | Gazetted — evidence class |
| Tenure | Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Parcel | 496AP22466 | 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 | Lamington National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 21,388 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 2 Dec 2022; first gazetted 31 Jul 1915; no encumbrance recorded. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Watercourse | Chiminya Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 0.4 m away. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Feature | Recorded as a watercourse in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. | Official spatial — evidence class |
Where it is
Map
Map of Chiminya Creek and the starts of the 2 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- 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 verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- 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 for everything this map draws.
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 stops short of this place Official spatial — evidence class
BB - Lower Bellbird circuit passes 454 m from the recorded point. There is 110 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 passes further off than anything the record can call a way to this place — or, where being above or below a feature is no answer at all, it is on the wrong level of it. Two measurements are used rather than one precisely so neither distance nor height can settle this on its own. Nothing here says how to close the remaining gap: no authority has surveyed a way across it, and a bearing off the end of a track is exactly the guess this site refuses to make.
Approaches — one page each 2 published of 28 computed
28 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.
Chiminya Creek from formed sealed track off Binna Burra Road
Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class chiminya-creek--from-formed-sealed-track-off-binna-burra-road- Verdict
- Lawful, with caveats
- One way
- 2310.2 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.
Chiminya Creek from vehicle barrier track off Binna Burra Road
Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class chiminya-creek--from-vehicle-barrier-track-off-binna-burra-road-3- Verdict
- Lawful, with caveats
- One way
- 1711.8 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.
Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date
park_alert · Lamington National Park
Planned burns Lamington National Park: Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) will be conducting planned burns (weather permitting) from 5 August 2026, as part of the fire management program for Lamington National Park.
Published by the managing authority. Follow the link for the current wording; this page carries only what the snapshot held.
park_alert · Lamington National Park
Severe Weather Damage - Lamington National Park (update 14 May): As a result of damage from Tropical Cyclone Alfred, some areas in Lamington National Park are closed until declared safe.
Published by the managing authority. Follow the link for the current wording; this page carries only what the snapshot held.
park_alert · Lamington National Park
Unplanned works - Woonoongoora Walkers' Camp (update 9 Jul): The Woonoongoora Walkers’ Camp is closed to new bookings from May to September 2026, due to works in the area. As a result, a temporary closure is in place from May to 30 September 2026, inclusive, weather permitting. Visitors can bypass the camping area and still complete the Gold Coast Hinterland Great Walk.
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. 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 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 statutory inference, 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
- Chiminya Creek, Lamington National Park
- Lot on plan
- 496AP22466
- Coordinates
- -28.20294, 153.20406 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse