Public Trails Computed from official land records

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

Mount Gerald

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

Gazetted name -26.73250, 152.60667 Conondale National Park · National Park mountain

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

Public land — inside Conondale National Park. 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 mountain — high ground rising clearly above what surrounds it, named by the register at a single coordinate somewhere on its high ground. Where the top of a mountain is, exactly, is not something a single coordinate settles, and whether the last of the climb can be walked is not something any register records.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Mount Gerald. 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 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 sedimentary and mafic volcanic rock, mapped as Booloumba beds (Cb) , early carboniferous? in age. The survey describes it as: Quartzose meta-arenite, argillite; haematitic slate, pillow basalt, volcaniclastic breccia Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • 100% — Eucalyptus saligna or E. grandis, E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus tall open forest on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics 12.11.2 · Least 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 "Mount Gerald" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — 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 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 mountain in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Mount Gerald 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 stops short of this place Official spatial — evidence class

Mt Gerald Trail passes 64 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 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 3 computed from lawful entry candidates

Mount Gerald from formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class mount-gerald--from-formed-natural-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1812.3 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.

Mount Gerald from minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class mount-gerald--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
2749.8 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.

Mount Gerald from Mt Gerald Trail

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class mount-gerald--from-mt-gerald-trail
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
6321.8 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: Kabi Kabi First Nation Traditional Owners Native Title Claim Group — 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
Mount Gerald, Conondale National Park
Lot on plan
7AP23765
Coordinates
-26.73250, 152.60667 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
mountain

What this place was read from