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

Tamarramai Falls

Track to the waterfall a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Class 3 -28.22372, 153.27583 Springbrook National Park · National Park waterfall

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 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.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Tamarramai Falls. 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 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 felsic volcanic rock, mapped as Springbrook Rhyolite (Tls) , oligocene - miocene in age. The survey describes it as: Rhyolite 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

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 33.2 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 10.1 m of ground — 1 m down for every 2.0 m 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	"Tamarramai Falls" 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	No named watercourse in the snapshot runs within range of this point. The layer maps many creeks it has never named.	—
Feature	Found by the terrain rule falls-rule/1, which fired because the bed loses 15.0 m within 33.2 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 10.1 m. A rule fired — nobody surveyed it.	Statutory inference — evidence class

Where it is

Map — covers Gold Coast

Map of Tamarramai Falls and the starts of the 10 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 reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

Twin Falls Circuit passes 1 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.

Approaches — one page each 10 published of 64 computed

64 ways in were computed and 10 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.