Sunshine Coast Official spatial — evidence class · Sunshine Coast · QLD

Booloumba Falls

Track to a place to see it from a published way, with steps to follow

Community name Difficulty: Class 5 -26.67640, 152.62116 Conondale National Park · National Park waterfall

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

Public land — inside Conondale National Park. A published track reaches it.

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 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.

Booloumba Falls sits on Booloumba Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 0.0 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside Conondale National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class

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

The rock at the surface is mafic volcanic rock, mapped as Peters Creek Greenstone (DCp) , late devonian - early carboniferous in age. The survey describes it as: Dark green, massive to strongly foliated, coarse-grained metagabbro and volcaniclastic rocks Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps 2 ecosystems over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

80% — Eucalyptus tereticornis subsp. tereticornis or E. tereticornis subsp. basaltica open forest on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics, usually on ridges, crests and upper slopes 12.11.9 · Of concern Official spatial — evidence class
20% — Eucalyptus siderophloia, E. propinqua +/- E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus, Corymbia intermedia, E. acmenoides open forest on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics 12.11.3 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class

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 29.5 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 5.4 m of ground — 1 m down for every 1.1 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. Statutory inference — evidence class

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	"Booloumba Falls" is a community record only — absent from the gazetteer and from the state feature layer.	Community — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	7AP23765	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Sunshine Coast, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	Conondale National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 35,835 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 9 Dec 2022; first gazetted 24 Sep 1977; no encumbrance recorded.	Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse	Booloumba Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 0.0 m away.	Official spatial — evidence class
Feature	Found by the terrain rule falls-rule/1, which fired because the bed loses 15.0 m within 29.5 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 5.4 m. A rule fired — nobody surveyed it.	Statutory inference — evidence class

Officially this place exists only as an unnamed feature on public land. The name is a community record; everything else on this page is computed from gazetted, official spatial or statutory-inference sources, and the two are never mixed.

Where it is

Map

Map of Booloumba Falls and the starts of the 7 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 Measured in plan and in section

The way reaches somewhere to see it from Official spatial — evidence class

Booloumba Falls Forest Walk passes 49 m from the recorded point. There is 20 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 register signs this way for this place, and it comes within reach of it and stops above or below it — so it is where the walk is meant to end, and what it ends at is a view rather than the feature itself. No approach to it is published from here, though: that is a separate question about who may lawfully cross the ground in between, and the approaches below are where it is answered.

Approaches — one page each 7 published of 14 computed

14 ways in were computed and 7 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.

Booloumba Falls from formed paved track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag booloumba-falls--from-formed-paved-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service

Verdict: Lawful, nothing to flag
One way: 4828.3 m
Caveats: none