Witches Falls from The Beacon Lookout Road
Access verdict · tier 2 of 4 · confidence C (statutory inference, the weakest grade in the chain)
A lawful approach from The Beacon Lookout Road, with caveats.
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.
- 1 · Lawful, nothing to flag Every leg is ground the public may cross, and nothing about the chain needs a warning. Whether a built track runs along it is said separately.
- 2 · Lawful, with caveats A lawful chain with at least one thing about it that has to be said first. This page is here.
- 3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published.
- 4 · No lawful route Enclosed by land the public has no right to cross. No route published.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.92017, 153.16047
That is The Beacon Lookout Road, where the walk below begins — 6.7 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.
- Google Maps one link for a desktop browser, Android or iPhone
- Apple Maps the default on iPhone and Mac
- Your own map app hands the coordinate to an installed app, offline ones included
-27.92017, 153.16047
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
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road reserve | 1682429 | The Beacon Lookout Road open | 80.2 m | 334.7° NNW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 2 | Protected estate | 441NPW909 | nothing mapped | 1249.2 m | 70.9° ENE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 3 | Protected estate | 441NPW909 | nothing mapped | 966.0 m | 100.4° E | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 4 | Road reserve | 1681973 | an unnamed formed sealed open | 44.0 m | 352.4° N | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 5 | Protected estate | 441NPW909 | nothing mapped | 761.9 m | 131.7° SE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 6 | Protected estate | 441NPW909 | nothing mapped | 518.4 m | 106.0° ESE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 7 | Road reserve | 1977834 | nothing mapped | 323.6 m | 185.0° S | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 627729 | an unnamed formed sealed open | 31.3 m | 236.6° WSW | C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference |
| 9 | Road reserve | 625221 | nothing mapped | 424.1 m | 225.3° SW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 10 | Protected estate | 441NPW909 | nothing mapped | 312.8 m | 281.1° W | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 11 | Road reserve | 599229 | an unnamed formed sealed open | 79.0 m | 292.2° WNW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 12 | Road reserve | 755447 | nothing mapped | 78.5 m | 205.1° SSW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 13 | Road reserve | 1982470 | nothing mapped | 11.5 m | 206.8° SSW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 14 | Road reserve | 1876070 | nothing mapped | 132.2 m | 210.2° SSW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 15 | Road reserve | 1876032 | nothing mapped | 28.5 m | 192.5° SSW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 16 | Road reserve | 1874170 | nothing mapped | 549.2 m | 221.6° SW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 17 | Road reserve | 1874132 | nothing mapped | 37.9 m | 236.8° WSW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 18 | Road reserve | 1874094 | an unnamed formed sealed open | 316.7 m | 180.8° S | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 19 | Protected estate | 441NPW909 | nothing mapped | 783.5 m | 293.3° WNW | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| Total | 511.6 m mapped | 6728.5 m | Chain confidence C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference | |||
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.
Caveats — what kept this off tier 1
- Corner-point junction. Two parcels in the chain meet at a single survey point. They are legally continuous public land, but the junction has no width on the ground.
- Watercourse crossing. The chain crosses a watercourse bed. The bed is State land by statutory inference, there is no structure, and the crossing is off in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1977834 and 625221 is 31.51 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
Following it on the ground No steps, but the record maps ground here
at least 3¾ hours out and back
at least 1¾ hours there at least 2 hours back
220 m up and 380 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 380 m.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
What is mapped along this chain
A managing authority has surveyed a way along 512 m of this 6729 m chain — about 8% of it. That is a statement about what is on the ground, not about your right to be there, which the parcels above already settled, and not a direction: no step below is measured along any of these ways.
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Leg 1 The Beacon Lookout Road B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
80 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public .
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Leg 4 an unnamed formed sealed B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
44 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public .
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Leg 8 an unnamed formed sealed B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
31 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service).
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Leg 11 an unnamed formed sealed B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
79 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service).
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Leg 18 an unnamed formed sealed B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
277 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public .
No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds — including where a way is mapped along it, because what was measured is the chain and not the way. Steps appear here only for a route that follows a surveyed way end to end.
How much climbing Read off the published contour layer
- Total climb
- 220.0 m
- Total descent
- 380.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 78.2% over 51.1 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 66.4 m | 550.0 m |
| 108.1 m | 550.0 m |
| 178.1 m | 545.0 m |
| 223.8 m | 540.0 m |
| 279.3 m | 535.0 m |
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| 399.6 m | 540.0 m |
| 489.5 m | 540.0 m |
| 512.9 m | 535.0 m |
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| 1050.3 m | 550.0 m |
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| 1102.1 m | 545.0 m |
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| 1908.2 m | 485.0 m |
| 1933.9 m | 480.0 m |
| 1959.9 m | 485.0 m |
| 1972.8 m | 490.0 m |
| 1990.9 m | 495.0 m |
| 2003.8 m | 500.0 m |
| 2015.4 m | 505.0 m |
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| 5977.0 m | 545.0 m |
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| 6068.8 m | 495.0 m |
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| 6564.1 m | 440.0 m |
| 6571.2 m | 435.0 m |
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| 6616.8 m | 415.0 m |
| 6642.4 m | 410.0 m |
| 6653.6 m | 405.0 m |
| 6691.0 m | 400.0 m |
| 6717.5 m | 395.0 m |
| 6724.6 m | 390.0 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: 19 legs from The Beacon Lookout Road, 6728.5 m in total.
What the colours mean
- 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 tier in words
- 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 are listed in the footer of this page.
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
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The destination sits on Tamborine National Park B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Parcel 441NPW909, 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; see the footer
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Leg 1: 1682429 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
80.2 m at 334.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1682429 Grade B
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Leg 2: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
1249.2 m at 70.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B
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Leg 3: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
966.0 m at 100.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B
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Leg 4: 1681973 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
44.0 m at 352.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1681973 Grade B
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Leg 5: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
761.9 m at 131.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B
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Leg 6: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
518.4 m at 106.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B
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Leg 7: 1977834 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
323.6 m at 185.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1977834 Grade B
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Leg 8: 627729 carries a right of passage C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference
31.3 m at 236.6°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 627729 Grade C
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Leg 9: 625221 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
424.1 m at 225.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 625221 Grade B
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Leg 10: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
312.8 m at 281.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B
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Leg 11: 599229 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
79.0 m at 292.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 599229 Grade B
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Leg 12: 755447 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
78.5 m at 205.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 755447 Grade B
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Leg 13: 1982470 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
11.5 m at 206.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1982470 Grade B
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Leg 14: 1876070 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
132.2 m at 210.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1876070 Grade B
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Leg 15: 1876032 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
28.5 m at 192.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1876032 Grade B
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Leg 16: 1874170 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
549.2 m at 221.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1874170 Grade B
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Leg 17: 1874132 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
37.9 m at 236.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1874132 Grade B
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Leg 18: 1874094 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
316.7 m at 180.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1874094 Grade B
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Leg 19: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
783.5 m at 293.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B
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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference
Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest grade in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at grade C.
Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Witches Falls, Tamborine National Park
- Lot on plan
- 441NPW909
- Coordinates
- -27.93378, 153.17256 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- waterfall
What this page will never do
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No user pins
Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute and carries a grade, A to C. Community names are quarantined at grade D and labelled as such. Nothing on this page was dropped on a map by a stranger.
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No invented lawfulness
Where tenure cannot be confirmed from the public record, the page says so instead of endorsing the route or quietly hiding it. Where no lawful corridor exists at all, none is published — the refusal is the answer.
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No safety pretence
A tier is a tenure verdict, not a difficulty or safety rating. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.