Gold Coast · Goomoolahra Lookout
Goomoolahra Lookout from Goomoolahra Falls Track
Access verdict · tier 1 of 4 · confidence B (official spatial record, the weakest grade in the chain)
A lawful approach from Goomoolahra Falls Track.
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 · 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. This page is here.
- 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.
- 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 -28.22384, 153.28482
That is Goomoolahra Falls Track, where the walk below begins — 64 m 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.
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- Apple Maps the default on iPhone and Mac
- Your own map app hands the coordinate to an installed app, offline ones included
-28.22384, 153.28482
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
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Track | walking track off Tallebudgera Creek Road | nothing mapped | 15.6 m | 29.0° NNE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 2 | Track | walking track off Tallebudgera Creek Road | nothing mapped | 24.1 m | 40.7° NE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 3 | Track | walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service) | nothing mapped | 24.1 m | 17.4° NNE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| Total | no way mapped | 63.8 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.
Following it on the ground Every step ends at something you can check
at least under a quarter hour out and back
at least under a quarter hour there at least under a quarter hour back
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track. The climb on this route could not be measured, so the figure is flat-ground time and the real walk is longer.
The way reaches this place B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
The nearest published way passes 6 m from the recorded point. The gap crosses no contour, which is as level as this layer can evidence — not a survey saying the ground is flat.
Both gaps are small enough that the way is a way to this place, not merely one near it.
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Follow the way for 64 m, setting off NNE (30°), to arrive.
Back: 210° along the way, 64 m from the start.
64 m in total, along the way the managing authority publishes. The record carries no name for it, so the steps above say only “the way” rather than guessing one. Every step above ends at something the records let you check on the ground. Bearings are true, not magnetic: they match a phone compass with no conversion. In this part of Queensland a magnetic bezel reads about 11° east of them, so an analogue compass needs that taken off before you set it.
What each step ends at, and why B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
- destination
- The place itself, which is always where the last step ends.
A cadastral parcel boundary is never one of them. It is invisible on the ground, so a step that ended at one could never be checked — however convenient it looks in the data.
How much climbing No contour cover along this line
No profile is published for this route. The contour layer does not cross its line often enough to describe a climb, and a profile drawn from anything else would be a guess about the ground.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 3 legs from Goomoolahra Falls Track, 63.8 m in total.
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.
What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link
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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
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Leg 1: walking track off Tallebudgera Creek Road carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
15.6 m at 29.0°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.
Leg reference walking track off Tallebudgera Creek Road Grade B
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Leg 2: walking track off Tallebudgera Creek Road carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
24.1 m at 40.7°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.
Leg reference walking track off Tallebudgera Creek Road Grade B
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Leg 3: walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service) carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
24.1 m at 17.4°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.
Leg reference walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service) Grade B
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Goomoolahra Lookout, Springbrook National Park
- Lot on plan
- 5AP19371
- Coordinates
- -28.22333, 153.28528 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- lookout
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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.