Mount Lofty from Peters Fire Management Trail
Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record
A lawful approach from Peters Fire Management Trail.
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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -26.73581, 152.54822
That is Peters Fire Management Trail, where the walk below begins — 1.4 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.
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-26.73581, 152.54822
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
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
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| 1 | Protected estate | 7AP23765 | Peters Fire Management Trail closed | 147.6 m | 137.9° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Protected estate | 20AP23628 | Peters Fire Management Trail closed | 53.0 m | 180.2° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Protected estate | 7AP23765 | nothing mapped | 1167.3 m | 137.3° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Total | 191.8 m mapped | 1367.9 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 No steps, but the record maps ground here
at least half an hour out and back
at least a quarter of an hour there at least a quarter of an hour back
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track. The climb on this route could not be measured, so the figure is flat-ground time and the real walk is longer.
What is mapped along this chain
A managing authority has surveyed a way along 192 m of this 1368 m chain — about 14% 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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Legs 1–2 Peters Fire Management Trail Official spatial — evidence class
192 m along it · the authority publishes this way as closed (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service).
One of the ways above is published as closed. The parcels still carry a right of passage, so this route is not withdrawn — but the authority that manages the way has shut it, and its reason is not in the record. Treat it as the answer to a question you would otherwise have had to ask on the ground.
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 No contour cover along this line
No profile is published for this route. The contour layer does not cross its line often enough to describe a climb, and a profile drawn from anything else would be a guess about the ground.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 3 legs from Peters Fire Management Trail, 1367.9 m in total.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- 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 verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- 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 for everything this map draws.
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 Conondale National Park Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 7AP23765, 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
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Leg 1: 7AP23765 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
147.6 m at 137.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 7AP23765 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 20AP23628 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
53.0 m at 180.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 20AP23628 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 7AP23765 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1167.3 m at 137.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 7AP23765 Grade official_spatial
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Mount Lofty, Conondale National Park
- Lot on plan
- 7AP23765
- Coordinates
- -26.74502, 152.55716 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- mountain
What this approach was read from
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16
- QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23