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

Deans Hill

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

Gazetted name -26.82056, 153.00389 Beerwah State Forest · State Forest hill

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

Public land — inside Beerwah State Forest. 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 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 hill — high ground rising above what surrounds it, but not far enough that the register reached for the word mountain. The choice between the two words is the namer's and the register records no height to check it against, so nothing about the size of the climb should be read from which word appears here.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Deans Hill. The layer maps far more creeks than it has ever named, so that is a gap in the record rather than dry ground.

The point falls inside Beerwah State Forest, designated State Forest. Official spatial — evidence class

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

The rock at the surface is sandstone, mapped as Landsborough Sandstone (RJl) , late triassic - early jurassic in age. The survey describes it as: Lithofeldspathic labile and quartzose sandstone, siltstone, shale, minor coal, ferruginous oolite marker Official spatial — evidence class

The remnant vegetation mapping records no ecosystem over this point. That covers remnant vegetation only, so it is what the register says about ground that has been cleared, or is water, sand or rock — not a statement that nothing grows here.

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	"Deans Hill" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Forest estate, recorded as "State Forest".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	561AP22457	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	Beerwah State Forest , designated State Forest. Declared under the Forestry Act 1959; 4,447 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 7 Dec 2023; first gazetted 1 Jan 2001; no encumbrance recorded.	Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse	No named watercourse in the snapshot runs within range of this point. The layer maps many creeks it has never named.	—
Feature	Recorded as a hill in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Deans Hill and the starts of the 11 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 stops short of this place Official spatial — evidence class

Hapgood Road passes 300 m from the recorded point. There is 50 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 11 published of 36 computed

36 ways in were computed and 11 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.

Deans Hill from formed natural track off Forestry Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag deans-hill--from-formed-natural-track-off-forestry-road-10

Verdict: Lawful, nothing to flag
One way: 1146.4 m
Caveats: none