Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Glass House Mountains

Glass House Mountains from Mt Tibrogargan Circuit

entry is a track 60 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class glass-house-mountains--from-mt-tibrogargan-circuit

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

A lawful approach from Mt Tibrogargan Circuit.

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.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -26.93251, 152.94838

That is Mt Tibrogargan Circuit, where the walk below begins — 1.8 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.

-26.93251, 152.94838

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

Legs of the computed corridor, in order, with the grade of the record that made each one lawful
# Runs along Parcel / reference Mapped along it Distance Bearing Evidence
1 Track Mt Tibrogargan Circuit nothing mapped 1780.2 m 331.3° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1780.2 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 1 hour out and back

at least half an hour there at least half an hour back

60 m up and 10 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 10 m.

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.

Naismith's rule, and what it does not account for

The way passes this place Official spatial — evidence class

Mt Tibrogargan Circuit passes 81 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 way comes close enough to be a way to this place without the record establishing that it ends at it. A register gives a feature one coordinate and a feature is not a point, so the two measurements above are the whole of the claim: how far off the way passes, and what height separates the two. Nothing here says the last of that gap can be crossed. The walk below runs along the surveyed way and ends on it. Leaving it to close the rest of the gap is not something any record here describes, and this page does not suggest it.

  1. Follow Mt Tibrogargan Circuit for 194 m, setting off NNW (342°), to the junction with Mt Tibrogargan Circuit.

    Back: 162° along Mt Tibrogargan Circuit, 194 m from the start.

  2. Follow Mt Tibrogargan Circuit for 711 m, setting off NNE (25°), to the junction with another published way.

    Back: 205° along Mt Tibrogargan Circuit, 905 m from the start.

  3. Follow Mt Tibrogargan Circuit for 541 m, setting off WNW (295°), to the junction with Maintenance Track.

    Back: 115° along Mt Tibrogargan Circuit, 1446 m from the start.

  4. Follow Mt Tibrogargan Circuit for 106 m, setting off WSW (251°), to the 80 m contour.

    Back: 71° along Mt Tibrogargan Circuit, 1552 m from the start.

  5. Follow Mt Tibrogargan Circuit for 228 m, setting off SW (235°), to arrive.

    Back: 55° along Mt Tibrogargan Circuit, 1780 m from the start.

1780 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.
contour
A mapped height. Checkable on a phone, and nothing else on the ground marks it.
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

Distance along the route, 0 to 1552.2 m · height 30.0 to 80.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
60.0 m
Total descent
10.0 m
Steepest sustained
11.1% over 89.7 m
Contour interval
5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
Contour crossings along the route, in order, as distance along the route against mapped height
Distance along Height
3.9 m 30.0 m
68.7 m 35.0 m
104.7 m 40.0 m
158.5 m 45.0 m
355.2 m 50.0 m
356.4 m 50.0 m
358.7 m 50.0 m
444.8 m 55.0 m
444.9 m 55.0 m
447.1 m 55.0 m
448.3 m 55.0 m
451.8 m 55.0 m
452.2 m 55.0 m
455.2 m 55.0 m
596.0 m 55.0 m
662.1 m 50.0 m
775.1 m 45.0 m
938.3 m 45.0 m
1011.2 m 50.0 m
1048.1 m 55.0 m
1145.3 m 60.0 m
1211.7 m 65.0 m
1271.2 m 70.0 m
1348.0 m 75.0 m
1349.9 m 75.0 m
1353.6 m 75.0 m
1402.0 m 75.0 m
1512.6 m 75.0 m
1552.2 m 80.0 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: 1 legs from Mt Tibrogargan Circuit, 1780.2 m in total.

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

  • 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

  • Leg 1: Mt Tibrogargan Circuit carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1780.2 m at 331.3°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Mt Tibrogargan Circuit Grade official_spatial

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Glass House Mountains, Glass House Mountains National Park
Lot on plan
127NPW725
Coordinates
-26.92563, 152.94439 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
range

What this approach was read from