Public Trails Computed from official land records

Lockyer Valley Official spatial — evidence class · Lockyer Valley · QLD

Mount Hennessy

Track to nearby a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Unclassified -27.93096, 152.26598 Main Range National Park · National Park mountain

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

Public land — inside Main Range 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 mountain — high ground rising clearly above what surrounds it, named by the register at a single coordinate somewhere on its high ground. Where the top of a mountain is, exactly, is not something a single coordinate settles, and whether the last of the climb can be walked is not something any register records.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Mount Hennessy. 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 Main Range 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 basalt, mapped as Main Range Volcanics (Tm) , eocene - miocene in age. The survey describes it as: Olivine basalt Official spatial — evidence class

The remnant vegetation mapping records no ecosystem over this point. That covers remnant vegetation only, so it is what the register says about ground that has been cleared, or is water, sand or rock — not a statement that nothing grows here.

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 "Mount Hennessy" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 84CC935 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Lockyer Valley, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate Main Range National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 38,283 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 18 Dec 2025; first gazetted 8 Aug 1908; 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 Recorded as a mountain in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Mount Hennessy and the starts of the 3 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

Mt Hennessy passes 40 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.

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 3 computed from lawful entry candidates

Mount Hennessy from BOM Weather Track

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class mount-hennessy--from-bom-weather-track
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
2555.6 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.

Mount Hennessy from Dingo

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class mount-hennessy--from-dingo
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1285.4 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.

Mount Hennessy from Mt Hennessy

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class mount-hennessy--from-mt-hennessy
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1253.3 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

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Yuggera Ugarapul 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
Mount Hennessy, Main Range National Park
Lot on plan
84CC935
Coordinates
-27.93096, 152.26598 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
mountain

What this place was read from