Tweed Official spatial — evidence class · Tweed · NSW
Mount Wagawn
No lawful route approaches were tested; none carried a right of passage
Access verdict · Unconfirmed · weakest evidence in the chain: community record
No lawful approach to this place could be established from the public record.
Every entry point tested ends at land the public has no established right to cross. This page publishes the refusal and the reason, and no route line of any kind.
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 Wagawn. 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 Limpinwood Nature Reserve, designated Nature Reserve. Official spatial — evidence class
The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.
The rock at the surface is basalt, mapped as
Lamington Group (Tvl) , oligocene - miocene in age. The survey
describes it as: Basalt, sub-alkali basalt with members of rhyolite, trachyte, tuff, agglomerate, conglomerate and andesite
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
| Claim | What the record says | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Name | "Mount Wagawn" is a gazetted register entry. | Gazetted — evidence class |
| Tenure | No tenure record covers this point in the snapshot. Unresolved is published as unresolved. | — |
| Parcel | No cadastral parcel was resolved at this point. | — |
| Council area | This place sits inside Tweed, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Estate | Limpinwood Nature Reserve , designated Nature Reserve. Declared under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW); IUCN category Ib; 2,647 ha as gazetted; 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 — covers Tweed
Map of Mount Wagawn and the starts of the 2 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.
Panning stops just outside Tweed, because the map archive is published one council area at a time. Every other council area Public Trails covers has a map of its own.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
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
Bushrangers Cave (Numingah Gap-Caves) 01 passes 453 m from the recorded point. There is 90 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 states its own contours as accurate to 10.0 m vertically, which is coarser than the difference this kind of place would have to be judged on — so the height above is reported and nothing is concluded from it. Reading it either way would be this site publishing its own rounding as the survey's finding.
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 2 published of 6 computed
6 ways in were computed and 2 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.
Mount Wagawn from Bushrangers Cave (Numingah Gap-Caves) 01
Community · Unconfirmed — evidence class mount-wagawn--from-bushrangers-cave-numingah-gap-caves-01- Verdict
- Unconfirmed
- One way
- not published
- Caveats
- none
No lawful chain was established from this entry. The route page states why, and publishes no legs.
Mount Wagawn from minimally formed natural track off Hayters Road
Community · Unconfirmed — evidence class mount-wagawn--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-hayters-road- Verdict
- Unconfirmed
- One way
- not published
- Caveats
- none
No lawful chain was established from this entry. The route page states why, and publishes no legs.
Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date
Nobody looked. No authority in this state publishes its alerts as data, so this page can tell you nothing at all about current conditions here — not that there are none. Check with the service that manages the area before you go.
On Country
No registered cultural heritage party boundary in the published dataset covers this point. That is the state of the dataset, not a statement that no party has an interest here.
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 Nature Reserve · statutory inference
Conduct rules follow from tenure and the legislation that governs it. Nothing specific is inferred here, which means you should read the signs, not that no rules apply.
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 Wagawn, Limpinwood Nature Reserve
- Lot on plan
- not established from the cadastre
- Coordinates
- -28.26507, 153.21774 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- mountain
What this place was read from
- New South Wales contours (Digital Topographic Database) — © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-24
- New South Wales local government area boundaries — © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-30
- NPWS managed land (New South Wales) — © State of New South Wales CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-24
- NPWS Asset Infrastructure — Track Section — © State of New South Wales (NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-26
- Geographical Names Register of New South Wales — © State of New South Wales (Geographical Names Board of NSW) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- Queensland detailed surface geology (1:100 000) — © State of Queensland (Geological Survey of Queensland) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22