Public Trails Computed from official land records

Noosa · Laguna Lookout

Laguna Lookout from Noosa Coastal Pathway

entry is a track 120 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class laguna-lookout--from-noosa-coastal-pathway

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

A lawful approach from Noosa Coastal Pathway.

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.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -26.38724, 153.09152

That is Noosa Coastal Pathway, where the walk below begins — 1.3 km 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.

-26.38724, 153.09152

An ordinary car reaches the start The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as trafficable by an ordinary vehicle.

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

Legs of the computed corridor, in order, with the grade of the record that made each one lawful
# Runs along Parcel / reference Mapped along it Distance Bearing Evidence
1 Track Shared pathway nothing mapped 152.1 m 100.7° E Official spatial — evidence class
2 Track Laguna lookout pathway nothing mapped 366.3 m 148.4° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
3 Track Laguna lookout track nothing mapped 535.7 m 159.0° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
4 Track Laguna lookout pathway nothing mapped 257.2 m 126.4° SE Official spatial — evidence class
5 Track stairs track (Local Government Authority) nothing mapped 22.8 m 334.3° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1334.1 m Chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class

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 three quarters of an hour out and back

at least half an hour there at least a quarter of an hour back

120 m up and 0 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 0 m.

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.

Naismith's rule, and what it does not account for

The way reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

Shared pathway passes 15 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.

  1. Follow Shared pathway for 121 m, setting off ESE (102°), to the junction with Shared pathway - road crossing.

    Back: 282° along Shared pathway, 121 m from the start.

  2. Follow Shared pathway for 95 m, setting off SSE (154°), to the junction with Morwong Drive.

    Back: 334° along Shared pathway, 216 m from the start.

  3. Follow Shared pathway for 838 m, setting off SSE (149°), to the junction with Shared pathway.

    Back: 329° along Shared pathway, 1054 m from the start.

  4. Follow Shared pathway for 170 m, setting off SSE (155°), to the junction with another published way.

    Back: 335° along Shared pathway, 1224 m from the start.

  5. Follow Shared pathway for 87 m, setting off NNE (20°), to the junction with another published way.

    Back: 200° along Shared pathway, 1311 m from the start.

  6. Follow Shared pathway for 23 m, setting off NNW (334°), to arrive.

    Back: 154° along Shared pathway, 1334 m from the start.

1334 m in total, along the way the managing authority publishes. 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 Official spatial — evidence class
junction
A junction with another published way. Unmissable on the ground, and the place a wrong turn happens.
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 Read off the published contour layer

Distance along the route, 0 to 1292.4 m · height 5.0 to 125.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
120.0 m
Total descent
0.0 m
Steepest sustained
30.5% over 65.5 m
Contour interval
5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
Contour crossings along the route, in order, as distance along the route against mapped height
Distance along Height
146.3 m 5.0 m
196.9 m 10.0 m
250.6 m 15.0 m
265.3 m 15.0 m
273.3 m 15.0 m
301.7 m 20.0 m
329.1 m 25.0 m
349.7 m 30.0 m
375.1 m 35.0 m
376.2 m 35.0 m
378.6 m 35.0 m
402.0 m 40.0 m
425.1 m 45.0 m
437.8 m 50.0 m
450.7 m 55.0 m
467.5 m 60.0 m
494.2 m 65.0 m
518.1 m 70.0 m
557.4 m 75.0 m
637.0 m 80.0 m
868.6 m 85.0 m
903.1 m 90.0 m
954.0 m 95.0 m
992.5 m 100.0 m
1070.8 m 105.0 m
1141.4 m 110.0 m
1188.4 m 115.0 m
1253.7 m 120.0 m
1292.4 m 125.0 m

The profile is the height the contour layer already records, read along the same line the legs above describe. It is not a survey of a path: nothing here says the ground between two contours is even, and a layer of 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 5 legs from Noosa Coastal Pathway, 1334.1 m in total.

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

  • The destination sits on Noosa National Park Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 147NPW889, 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

  • Leg 1: Shared pathway carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    152.1 m at 100.7°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Shared pathway Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: Laguna lookout pathway carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    366.3 m at 148.4°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Laguna lookout pathway Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: Laguna lookout track carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    535.7 m at 159.0°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Laguna lookout track Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: Laguna lookout pathway carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    257.2 m at 126.4°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Laguna lookout pathway Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: stairs track (Local Government Authority) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    22.8 m at 334.3°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference stairs track (Local Government Authority) Grade official_spatial

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Location
Laguna Lookout, Noosa National Park
Lot on plan
147NPW889
Coordinates
-26.39083, 153.09556 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
lookout

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