Public Trails Computed from official land records

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

Kuralboo Creek

Track to nearby a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Class 4 -28.18483, 153.26848 Springbrook National Park · National Park watercourse

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

Public land — inside Springbrook National Park. A published track reaches it.

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

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.

Kuralboo Creek sits on Kuralboo Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 0.2 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside Springbrook 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

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "Kuralboo Creek" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 5AP19371 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 Springbrook National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 6,554 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 26 Mar 2020; first gazetted 3 Nov 1960; no encumbrance recorded. Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse Kuralboo Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 0.2 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 Kuralboo Creek and the starts of the 6 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

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

Warringa Pool Track (Great Walk) passes 32 m from the recorded point. There is 10 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 6 published of 49 computed

49 ways in were computed and 6 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.

Kuralboo Creek from Base Driveway

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class kuralboo-creek--from-base-driveway
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1073.4 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Kuralboo Creek from Carricks Road

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class kuralboo-creek--from-carricks-road-2
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1440.2 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Kuralboo Creek from minimally formed natural track off Lyrebird Ridge Road

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class kuralboo-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-lyrebird-ridge-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1565.2 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.

Kuralboo Creek from minimally formed natural track off Springbrook Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class kuralboo-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-springbrook-road
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1370.5 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Kuralboo Creek from Powerline Walk Link 4

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class kuralboo-creek--from-powerline-walk-link-4
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
2848.7 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Kuralboo Creek from Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk)

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class kuralboo-creek--from-purling-brook-falls-circuit-great-walk
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1919.0 m
Caveats
none

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 · Springbrook National Park

Toilets closed at Tallanbana trailhead (update 1 Jul): Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) have determined that visitor amenities situated at the Tallanbana trailhead are not performing to optimum standards.

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
Kuralboo Creek, Springbrook National Park
Lot on plan
5AP19371
Coordinates
-28.18483, 153.26848 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse