Beerwah from Western Buffer Break
Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record
A lawful approach from Western Buffer 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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -26.89725, 152.87252
That is Western Buffer Break, where the walk below begins — 2.5 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
-26.89725, 152.87252
Four-wheel-drive only The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as four-wheel-drive. A vehicle that gets most of the way along a road like this can still be stopped by the last of it.
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 | Track | Internal Roads | nothing mapped | 844.0 m | 42.6° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Track | Day Use Break | nothing mapped | 706.7 m | 86.2° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Track | Toilet Access Track | nothing mapped | 37.1 m | 167.4° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Track | Mountain Base Walk | nothing mapped | 373.9 m | 195.6° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Track | walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service) | nothing mapped | 550.7 m | 155.4° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 2512.4 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 1¾ hours out and back
at least 1¼ hours there at least half an hour back
405 m up and 15 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 15 m.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
The way reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class
Internal Roads 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.
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Follow Internal Roads for 81 m, setting off NE (43°), to the junction with Track.
Back: 223° along Internal Roads, 81 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 290 m, setting off NE (37°), to the junction with Track.
Back: 217° along Internal Roads, 371 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 111 m, setting off NE (37°), to the junction with Track.
Back: 217° along Internal Roads, 481 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 184 m, setting off NE (38°), to the junction with Track.
Back: 218° along Internal Roads, 665 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 176 m, setting off ENE (61°), to the junction with Track.
Back: 241° along Internal Roads, 840 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 85 m, setting off ENE (78°), to the junction with Western Boundary Access.
Back: 258° along Internal Roads, 925 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 91 m, setting off ENE (75°), to the junction with Western Boundary Access.
Back: 255° along Internal Roads, 1016 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 81 m, setting off ENE (73°), to the junction with Western Boundary Access.
Back: 253° along Internal Roads, 1097 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 82 m, setting off E (80°), to the junction with Western Boundary Access.
Back: 260° along Internal Roads, 1179 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 84 m, setting off NE (45°), to the junction with Western Boundary Access.
Back: 225° along Internal Roads, 1262 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 94 m, setting off E (81°), to the junction with Western Boundary Access.
Back: 261° along Internal Roads, 1357 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 82 m, setting off SE (136°), to the junction with Western Boundary Access.
Back: 316° along Internal Roads, 1439 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 83 m, setting off SE (129°), to the junction with Western Boundary Access.
Back: 309° along Internal Roads, 1522 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 397 m, setting off S (186°), to the junction with Mountain Base Walk.
Back: 6° along Internal Roads, 1919 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 594 m, setting off SSE (160°), to Beerwah.
Back: 340° along Internal Roads, 2513 m from the start.
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Follow Internal Roads for 0 m, setting off ESE (108°), to arrive.
Back: 288° along Internal Roads, 2513 m from the start.
2513 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.
- feature
- A feature the place-names register carries, passed close to the way.
- 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
- Total climb
- 405.0 m
- Total descent
- 15.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 83.4% over 54.0 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 31.1 m | 160.0 m |
| 133.8 m | 155.0 m |
| 178.4 m | 150.0 m |
| 218.0 m | 145.0 m |
| 383.3 m | 145.0 m |
| 383.8 m | 145.0 m |
| 385.8 m | 145.0 m |
| 388.8 m | 145.0 m |
| 389.8 m | 145.0 m |
| 642.7 m | 150.0 m |
| 643.5 m | 150.0 m |
| 643.6 m | 150.0 m |
| 645.8 m | 150.0 m |
| 647.5 m | 150.0 m |
| 749.9 m | 155.0 m |
| 752.5 m | 155.0 m |
| 752.7 m | 155.0 m |
| 830.9 m | 160.0 m |
| 1041.2 m | 165.0 m |
| 1107.4 m | 170.0 m |
| 1108.7 m | 170.0 m |
| 1109.9 m | 170.0 m |
| 1461.3 m | 175.0 m |
| 1476.6 m | 175.0 m |
| 1476.8 m | 175.0 m |
| 1738.0 m | 180.0 m |
| 1770.7 m | 185.0 m |
| 1794.4 m | 190.0 m |
| 1820.1 m | 195.0 m |
| 1841.1 m | 200.0 m |
| 1857.2 m | 205.0 m |
| 1869.3 m | 210.0 m |
| 1880.5 m | 215.0 m |
| 1890.6 m | 220.0 m |
| 1900.9 m | 225.0 m |
| 1912.3 m | 230.0 m |
| 1939.5 m | 235.0 m |
| 1950.2 m | 240.0 m |
| 1968.7 m | 245.0 m |
| 1975.0 m | 250.0 m |
| 1980.2 m | 255.0 m |
| 1985.7 m | 260.0 m |
| 1989.5 m | 265.0 m |
| 1995.2 m | 270.0 m |
| 2001.1 m | 275.0 m |
| 2008.9 m | 280.0 m |
| 2015.3 m | 285.0 m |
| 2022.7 m | 290.0 m |
| 2034.1 m | 295.0 m |
| 2041.0 m | 300.0 m |
| 2047.0 m | 305.0 m |
| 2051.8 m | 310.0 m |
| 2057.8 m | 315.0 m |
| 2065.2 m | 320.0 m |
| 2073.3 m | 325.0 m |
| 2080.1 m | 330.0 m |
| 2087.1 m | 335.0 m |
| 2092.7 m | 340.0 m |
| 2099.3 m | 345.0 m |
| 2105.7 m | 350.0 m |
| 2111.7 m | 355.0 m |
| 2118.3 m | 360.0 m |
| 2125.7 m | 365.0 m |
| 2131.5 m | 370.0 m |
| 2138.2 m | 375.0 m |
| 2149.0 m | 380.0 m |
| 2175.9 m | 385.0 m |
| 2192.6 m | 390.0 m |
| 2203.1 m | 395.0 m |
| 2212.0 m | 400.0 m |
| 2221.7 m | 405.0 m |
| 2228.7 m | 410.0 m |
| 2233.6 m | 415.0 m |
| 2235.1 m | 420.0 m |
| 2258.1 m | 425.0 m |
| 2271.5 m | 430.0 m |
| 2276.1 m | 435.0 m |
| 2284.2 m | 440.0 m |
| 2294.8 m | 445.0 m |
| 2303.0 m | 450.0 m |
| 2315.7 m | 455.0 m |
| 2324.1 m | 460.0 m |
| 2336.3 m | 465.0 m |
| 2343.0 m | 470.0 m |
| 2350.1 m | 475.0 m |
| 2356.2 m | 480.0 m |
| 2362.1 m | 485.0 m |
| 2368.5 m | 490.0 m |
| 2375.1 m | 495.0 m |
| 2380.7 m | 500.0 m |
| 2390.7 m | 505.0 m |
| 2400.2 m | 510.0 m |
| 2406.0 m | 515.0 m |
| 2412.9 m | 520.0 m |
| 2417.9 m | 525.0 m |
| 2422.7 m | 530.0 m |
| 2430.2 m | 535.0 m |
| 2446.4 m | 540.0 m |
| 2476.4 m | 545.0 m |
| 2484.3 m | 550.0 m |
| 2510.7 m | 550.0 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: 5 legs from Western Buffer Break, 2512.4 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 Glass House Mountains National Park Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 127NPW725, 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: Internal Roads carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
844.0 m at 42.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.
Leg reference Internal Roads Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: Day Use Break carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
706.7 m at 86.2°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.
Leg reference Day Use Break Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: Toilet Access Track carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
37.1 m at 167.4°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.
Leg reference Toilet Access Track Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: Mountain Base Walk carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
373.9 m at 195.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.
Leg reference Mountain Base Walk Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
550.7 m at 155.4°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.
Leg reference walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service) Grade official_spatial
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Beerwah, Glass House Mountains National Park
- Lot on plan
- 127NPW725
- Coordinates
- -26.89694, 152.88472 (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 LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland 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
- Protected areas of Queensland (estate polygons) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- Queensland roads and tracks (named road centrelines) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22