Public Trails Computed from official land records

Noosa Official spatial — evidence class · Noosa · QLD

Noosa Head

Track to nearby a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Class 4 -26.37778, 153.11778 Noosa National Park · National Park cape

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

Public land — inside Noosa 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 cape — land reaching out into the water, named at a single coordinate somewhere on it. Nothing in the register says how far out the point of it lies, and the last of a cape is often rock the water covers, so nearness to the coordinate is not the same as standing at the end.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Noosa Head. 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 Noosa 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 sandstone and mudstone, mapped as Tiaro Coal Measures (Jdt) , early jurassic - middle jurassic in age. The survey describes it as: Lithofeldspathic labile and sublabile to quartzose sandstone, siltstone, shale, coal, ferruginous oolite marker Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 100% — Vegetation complex of rocky headlands on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.19x2 , described as 12.12.19 · Of 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 "Noosa Head" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 147NPW889 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Noosa, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate Noosa National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 2,883 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 20 Jul 2007; first gazetted 1 Feb 1930; 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 cape in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Noosa Head 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 Measured in plan and in section

The way passes this place Official spatial — evidence class

Coastal Walk passes 26 m from the recorded point. There is 20 m of climb or drop between the two, read at a 5.0 m contour interval. The contours give the height between them and never which way round it is, so this is a separation and not a descent to plan.

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 2 published of 12 computed

12 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.

Noosa Head from Back Door Break

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class noosa-head--from-back-door-break
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
2864.1 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.

Noosa Head from Service Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class noosa-head--from-service-road
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
2447.5 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: 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 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
Noosa Head, Noosa National Park
Lot on plan
147NPW889
Coordinates
-26.37778, 153.11778 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
cape

What this place was read from