Public Trails Computed from official land records

Noosa · Noosa Hill

Noosa Hill from Box Tree Break

entry is a track 105 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class noosa-hill--from-box-tree-break

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

A lawful approach from Box Tree Break.

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 -26.39059, 153.11081

That is Box Tree Break, where the walk below begins — 2.1 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.

-26.39059, 153.11081

The record does not say what reaches the start The roads layer leaves trafficability unstated on most of its rows, and it is unstated here. That is an absence of evidence, not an ordinary road: treat the last stretch as unresearched.

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 Grass Tree Break nothing mapped 453.9 m 304.0° NW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Track Tanglewood Walk nothing mapped 692.8 m 257.0° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Track Noosa Hill Link Track nothing mapped 813.3 m 30.3° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
4 Track Noosa Hill Walk nothing mapped 142.3 m 329.6° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 2102.3 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 1 hour out and back

at least half an hour there at least half an hour back

105 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

Grass Tree Break passes under a metre 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 Grass Tree Break for 84 m, setting off WNW (292°), to the junction with Grass Tree Break.

    Back: 112° along Grass Tree Break, 84 m from the start.

  2. Follow Grass Tree Break for 80 m, setting off WNW (293°), to the junction with Grass Tree Break.

    Back: 113° along Grass Tree Break, 165 m from the start.

  3. Follow Grass Tree Break for 90 m, setting off NW (304°), to the junction with Grass Tree Break.

    Back: 124° along Grass Tree Break, 254 m from the start.

  4. Follow Grass Tree Break for 91 m, setting off WNW (298°), to the junction with Grass Tree Break.

    Back: 118° along Grass Tree Break, 345 m from the start.

  5. Follow Grass Tree Break for 87 m, setting off NNW (328°), to the junction with Grass Tree Break.

    Back: 148° along Grass Tree Break, 432 m from the start.

  6. Follow Grass Tree Break for 152 m, setting off WSW (256°), to the junction with Sand Road.

    Back: 76° along Grass Tree Break, 584 m from the start.

  7. Follow Grass Tree Break for 442 m, setting off WSW (249°), to the junction with Brunjes Line.

    Back: 69° along Grass Tree Break, 1025 m from the start.

  8. Follow Grass Tree Break for 121 m, setting off WNW (292°), to the junction with Tanglewood Walk.

    Back: 112° along Grass Tree Break, 1147 m from the start.

  9. Follow Grass Tree Break for 813 m, setting off NNE (30°), to the junction with Noosa Hill Walk.

    Back: 210° along Grass Tree Break, 1960 m from the start.

  10. Follow Grass Tree Break for 120 m, setting off NW (324°), to the 145 m contour.

    Back: 144° along Grass Tree Break, 2080 m from the start.

  11. Follow Grass Tree Break for 22 m, setting off SE (126°), to arrive.

    Back: 306° along Grass Tree Break, 2102 m from the start.

2102 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.
contour
A mapped height. Checkable on a phone, and nothing else on the ground marks it.
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 2080.0 m · height 40.0 to 145.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
105.0 m
Total descent
0.0 m
Steepest sustained
12.7% over 78.7 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
22.2 m 40.0 m
81.3 m 45.0 m
125.0 m 50.0 m
160.1 m 55.0 m
255.2 m 60.0 m
324.1 m 65.0 m
430.4 m 70.0 m
824.3 m 70.0 m
843.5 m 70.0 m
844.9 m 70.0 m
847.1 m 70.0 m
851.3 m 70.0 m
951.4 m 70.0 m
971.0 m 70.0 m
971.4 m 70.0 m
973.4 m 70.0 m
976.3 m 70.0 m
1177.5 m 75.0 m
1244.3 m 80.0 m
1304.0 m 85.0 m
1352.6 m 90.0 m
1353.3 m 90.0 m
1355.2 m 90.0 m
1407.2 m 95.0 m
1461.8 m 100.0 m
1515.2 m 105.0 m
1601.5 m 110.0 m
1602.7 m 110.0 m
1604.7 m 110.0 m
1779.9 m 115.0 m
1843.8 m 120.0 m
1895.8 m 125.0 m
1955.9 m 130.0 m
1998.1 m 135.0 m
2037.7 m 140.0 m
2080.0 m 145.0 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: 4 legs from Box Tree Break, 2102.3 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: Grass Tree Break carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    453.9 m at 304.0°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Grass Tree Break Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: Tanglewood Walk carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    692.8 m at 257.0°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Tanglewood Walk Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: Noosa Hill Link Track carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    813.3 m at 30.3°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Noosa Hill Link Track Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: Noosa Hill Walk carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    142.3 m at 329.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Noosa Hill Walk Grade official_spatial

If something goes wrong

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Location
Noosa Hill, Noosa National Park
Lot on plan
147NPW889
Coordinates
-26.38389, 153.10528 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
hill

What this approach was read from