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

Kureelpa Falls

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

Community name Difficulty: Class 3 -26.59384, 152.88810 Mapleton National Park · National Park waterfall

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 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.

Kureelpa Falls sits on South Maroochy River. 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 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 Wappa Rhyolite (Rmw) , late triassic in age. The survey describes it as: Rhyolite Official spatial — evidence class

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

100% — Simple notophyll vine forest usually with abundant Archontophoenix cunninghamiana (gully vine forest) on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.1 · Of 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 29.8 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 2.2 m of ground — 2.2 m down for every metre 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	"Kureelpa 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	1239NPW1106	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	South Maroochy River, 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 29.8 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 2.2 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 Kureelpa Falls and the starts of the 10 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

Kureelpa Falls Break passes 69 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 10 published of 24 computed

24 ways in were computed and 10 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.