Public Trails Computed from official land records

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

Vinegar Hill

Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it

Gazetted name -27.47639, 152.23722 Lockyer National Park · National Park hill

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

Public land — inside Lockyer 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.

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 hill — high ground rising above what surrounds it, but not far enough that the register reached for the word mountain. The choice between the two words is the namer's and the register records no height to check it against, so nothing about the size of the climb should be read from which word appears here.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Vinegar Hill. 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 Lockyer 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 sedimentary rock, mapped as Woogaroo Subgroup (RJbw) , late triassic - early jurassic in age. The survey describes it as: Sublabile to quartzose sandstone, siltstone, quartz-rich granule to cobble conglomerate and coal Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps 2 ecosystems over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 60% — Eucalyptus siderophloia, E. propinqua, E. microcorys and/or E. pilularis open forest on remnant Tertiary surfaces. Usually deep red soils 12.5.6b , described as 12.5.6 · Endangered Official spatial — evidence class
  • 40% — Open forest complex with Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata on subcoastal remnant Tertiary surfaces. Usually deep red soils 12.5.1c , described as 12.5.1 · 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 "Vinegar Hill" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 1AP22506 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 Lockyer National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 11,760 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 27 Jun 2024; first gazetted 10 Nov 2000; 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 hill in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Vinegar Hill and the starts of the 2 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 No published way within range

No vetted way the managing authority publishes comes within range of this point. That is a fact about the access record, not about the ground: an unmapped pad may well exist, and this site will not invent one on the strength of that.

Approaches — one page each 2 published of 4 computed

4 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.

Vinegar Hill from Internal Roads

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class vinegar-hill--from-internal-roads
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1878.9 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.

Vinegar Hill from Vinegar Hill Firebreaks

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class vinegar-hill--from-vinegar-hill-firebreaks
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
626.9 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
Vinegar Hill, Lockyer National Park
Lot on plan
1AP22506
Coordinates
-27.47639, 152.23722 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
hill

What this place was read from