Public Trails Computed from official land records

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

Gheerulla Valley Viewpoint

Track to the lookout a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Unclassified -26.59583, 152.81278 Mapleton National Park · National Park lookout

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

Public land — inside Mapleton 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 lookout — a place built or cleared to be looked out from — a platform, a railing, a break in the trees at the edge of a fall. The register names the viewing place itself, not what is visible from it, so what a lookout looks over is not something this site can read off the record.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Gheerulla Valley Viewpoint. 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 Mapleton 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 felsic volcanic rock, mapped as Carol Creek Rhyolite (Rmc) , late triassic in age. The survey describes it as: Rhyolitic tuff Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 100% — Eucalyptus racemosa subsp. racemosa +/- Lophostemon confertus, Syncarpia glomulifera, Eucalyptus acmenoides woodland to open forest usually on rocky near coastal areas on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.14 · Of concern Official spatial — 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 "Gheerulla Valley Viewpoint" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 1239NPW1105 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 Mapleton National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 10,064 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 28 Mar 2014; first gazetted 15 Feb 1973; 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 lookout in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Gheerulla Valley Viewpoint and the starts of the 3 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 this place Official spatial — evidence class

Great Walk Access C passes 14 m 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.

Approaches — one page each 3 published of 8 computed

8 ways in were computed and 3 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.

Gheerulla Valley Viewpoint from 1132 Access

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class gheerulla-valley-viewpoint--from-1132-access
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1484.9 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Gheerulla Valley Viewpoint from Doons Drop Break

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class gheerulla-valley-viewpoint--from-doons-drop-break
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1360.0 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Gheerulla Valley Viewpoint from Great Walk Access C

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class gheerulla-valley-viewpoint--from-great-walk-access-c
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
405.8 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Jinibara People — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. Official spatial — evidence class

A cultural heritage party boundary and a native title claim are different legal things. This page never conflates them, and it publishes neither as a permission.

All land and waters in Queensland carry a duty of care under s.23 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) — including here. Cultural heritage site locations are restricted by law (ss.38–46), deliberately, for site protection. This site holds party boundaries only and will never republish site locations. Check the public register and, where in doubt, seek guidance from the Aboriginal party for the area.

Searching a register does not of itself satisfy the duty of care.

Rules here — derived from tenure National Park · statutory inference

This point sits on protected estate. In Queensland that ordinarily means no dogs or pets, no open fires outside provided facilities, no camping outside designated areas, no drones without authority, and nothing taken. These follow from the tenure and the legislation that governs it — they are statutory inference, not a copy of a sign.

Statutes relied on: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld) and its regulations for protected estate; Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 for watercourse beds; Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) ss.23 and 38–46 for the duty of care and for why site locations are never republished here.

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Gheerulla Valley Viewpoint, Mapleton National Park
Lot on plan
1239NPW1105
Coordinates
-26.59583, 152.81278 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
lookout

What this place was read from