Public Trails Computed from official land records

Scenic Rim Official spatial — evidence class · Scenic Rim · QLD

McCourt Hill

Lawful route — caveats lawful, with something that needs saying first

Gazetted name -27.98500, 152.70139 hill

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

Public land. 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 McCourt 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 outside every protected-area estate in the snapshot.

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is sandstone and mudstone, mapped as Walloon Coal Measures (Jw) , middle jurassic in age. The survey describes it as: Shale, siltstone, sandstone, coal seams 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

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "McCourt Hill" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Freehold, recorded as "Freehold". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 7RP187387 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Scenic Rim, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot.
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 McCourt Hill and the starts of the 8 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 8 published of 62 computed

62 ways in were computed and 8 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.

McCourt Hill from Allandale Road

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class mccourt-hill--from-allandale-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
8099.5 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.

McCourt Hill from Coronation Drive

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class mccourt-hill--from-coronation-drive
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
8620.0 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

McCourt Hill from Gorkow Road

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class mccourt-hill--from-gorkow-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
7757.6 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

McCourt Hill from Ley Street

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class mccourt-hill--from-ley-street
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
8538.6 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

McCourt Hill from McConnel Road

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class mccourt-hill--from-mcconnel-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
4247.1 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

McCourt Hill from Old Rifle Range Road

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class mccourt-hill--from-old-rifle-range-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
5420.1 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

McCourt Hill from Podlich Road

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class mccourt-hill--from-podlich-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
2951.6 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

McCourt Hill from Robson Road

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class mccourt-hill--from-robson-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1451.6 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

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

No alert was published for this area in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open": many managing authorities publish no machine-readable status at all, so an absence of alerts is an absence of information.

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 no estate designation resolved

Conduct rules follow from tenure and the legislation that governs it. Nothing specific is inferred here, which means you should read the signs, not that no rules apply.

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

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Location
McCourt Hill
Lot on plan
7RP187387
Coordinates
-27.98500, 152.70139 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
hill