Scenic Rim B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record · Scenic Rim · QLD

Witches Falls

Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it

Gazetted name A -27.93358, 153.16937 Tamborine National Park · National Park waterfall

A Gazetted / register — The fact is itself a statutory record.
B Official spatial record — Read from a maintained government layer.
C Statutory inference — Law applied to B-grade records; not ground-truthed.
D Community record — Community sources; labelled, never blended into A–C.

Access verdict · tier 1 of 4 · confidence B (official spatial record, the weakest grade in the chain)

Public land — inside Tamborine National Park. 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 tier and its own caveats.

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. This page is here.
2 · Lawful, with caveats A lawful chain with at least one thing about it that has to be said first.
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.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A waterfall — a step in a watercourse steep enough that the water falls clear of the bed rather than running down it. The step is usually a band of harder rock the creek has been unable to cut through as fast as the softer rock below, so the drop moves slowly upstream over time and leaves a gorge behind it.

Witches Falls sits on Fenwick Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 1.8 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

The point falls inside Tamborine National Park, designated National Park. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

No register records how far the water falls. What the contours record is this: the terrain rule fired here because the bed loses 15.0 m within 22.1 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 7.2 m of ground — 1 m down for every 1.4 m along the bed. That is a floor and not a total: the contour interval is the smallest drop this layer can show, so the face is at least this steep and may be far more. C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

On the record — what the registers actually say Dataset versions in the footer

What each register holds about this place
Claim	What the record says	Evidence
Name	"Witches Falls" is a gazetted register entry.	A — provenance grade A: Gazetted / register
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Parcel	441NPW909	B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Council area	This place sits inside Scenic Rim, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Estate	Tamborine National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 2,094 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 22 Oct 2021; first gazetted 28 Mar 1908; no encumbrance recorded.	B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Watercourse	Fenwick Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 1.8 m away.	B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Feature	Found by the terrain rule falls-rule/1, which fired because the bed loses 15.0 m within 22.1 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 7.2 m. A rule fired — nobody surveyed it.	C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

Where it is

Map

Context map for Witches Falls: parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around the point.

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 stops short of this place B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

Witches Falls passes 200 m from the recorded point. There is 70 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 passes further off than anything the record can call a way to this place — or, where being above or below a feature is no answer at all, it is on the wrong level of it. Two measurements are used rather than one precisely so neither distance nor height can settle this on its own. Nothing here says how to close the remaining gap: no authority has surveyed a way across it, and a bearing off the end of a track is exactly the guess this site refuses to make.

Approaches — one page each 9 published of 80 computed

80 ways in were computed and 9 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.