Noosa Official spatial — evidence class · Noosa · QLD
Lake Como
Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it
Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record
Public land — inside Cooloola (Noosa River) Resources Reserve. 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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
What this place is A definition, then the record
A lake — a body of standing water, named at one coordinate somewhere on or beside it. The register records neither the shoreline nor whether the water is there — a great many named lakes in this country are dry ground most years.
No watercourse the register names runs within range of Lake Como. 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 Cooloola (Noosa River) Resources Reserve, designated Resources Reserve. Official spatial — evidence class
The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.
The rock at the surface is sand, mapped as
Ql\s-QLD (Ql\s) , quaternary in age. The survey
describes it as: Quartz sand; lake shore foredunes, ripple zone
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
| Claim | What the record says | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Name | "Lake Como" is a gazetted register entry. | Gazetted — evidence class |
| Tenure | Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Parcel | 35MCH5214 | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Council area | This place sits inside Noosa, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Estate | Cooloola (Noosa River) Resources Reserve , designated Resources Reserve. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category VI; 117 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 1 Jul 2016; first gazetted 16 Feb 1991; encumbrance recorded: Resource Use Area. | 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 lake in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. | Official spatial — evidence class |
Where it is
Map
Map of Lake Como and the starts of the 2 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
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 computed from lawful entry candidates
Lake Como from Deer Trail
Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class lake-como--from-deer-trail- Verdict
- Lawful, nothing to flag
- One way
- 1782.0 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.
Lake Como from Harry's Hut Road
Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class lake-como--from-harry-s-hut-road- Verdict
- Lawful, with caveats
- One way
- 2195.4 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.
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: Kabi Kabi First Nation Traditional Owners Native Title Claim Group — 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 Resources Reserve · 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
- Lake Como, Cooloola (Noosa River) Resources Reserve
- Lot on plan
- 35MCH5214
- Coordinates
- -26.20698, 153.02549 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- lake
What this place was read from
- Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party boundaries (boundaries only) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16
- Protected areas of Queensland (estate polygons) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- Queensland detailed surface geology (1:100 000) — © State of Queensland (Geological Survey of Queensland) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22