Scenic Rim Official spatial — evidence class · Scenic Rim · QLD
Eerigingboola Falls
No way in found nothing was proposed as a way in, within the area searched
Access verdict · Unconfirmed · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record
Nothing was tested — no starting point was found to test from.
No lawful starting point exists within 2.0 km of this place: no road the public may drive running down a corridor they may stand on, and no trailhead the managing authority publishes. Nothing was refused here, because there was nothing to refuse. The place is published so the gap in the record is visible rather than quietly dropped.
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.
Eerigingboola Falls sits on Toolona Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 12.1 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class
The point falls inside Lamington National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class
The point falls inside Gondwana Rainforests of Australia , a property inscribed on the World Heritage List. That is where the ground is, and it is not a statement about who may walk there — access is the tenure question above. Official spatial — evidence class
The rock at the surface is basalt, mapped as
Hobwee Basalt (Tlh) , oligocene - miocene in age. The survey
describes it as: Olivine basalt
Official spatial — evidence class
The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.
- 100% — Complex notophyll vine forest on Cainozoic igneous rocks, usually at altitude of more than 600m 12.8.5 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class
No register consulted records how far the water falls, and nothing here estimates it. This place is published because a register says it is here, not because a rule found it.
On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions
| Claim | What the record says | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Name | "Eerigingboola Falls" is a gazetted register entry. | Gazetted — evidence class |
| Tenure | Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Parcel | 496AP22466 | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Council area | This place sits inside Scenic Rim, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Estate | Lamington National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 21,388 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 2 Dec 2022; first gazetted 31 Jul 1915; no encumbrance recorded. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Watercourse | Toolona Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 12.1 m away. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Feature | Recorded as a waterfall in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. | Official spatial — evidence class |
Where it is
Map — covers Scenic Rim
Context map for Eerigingboola Falls: parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around the point. No approach was published, so no start is marked.
Panning stops just outside Scenic Rim, 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 No published way within range
No vetted way the managing authority publishes comes within range of this point. That is a fact about the access record, not about the ground: an unmapped pad may well exist, and this site will not invent one on the strength of that.
Approaches — one page each no starting point within 2.0 km
There was nothing to compute
Not one lawful starting point was found within 2.0 km, so no approach was solved and none was refused. The records place this feature beyond every road and trailhead they describe. Publishing that emptiness is the point: it is where the record stops, and it is not a licence to head in on a bearing.
Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date
park_alert · Lamington National Park
Planned burns Lamington National Park: Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) will be conducting planned burns (weather permitting) from 5 August 2026, as part of the fire management program for Lamington National Park.
Published by the managing authority. Follow the link for the current wording; this page carries only what the snapshot held.
park_alert · Lamington National Park
Severe Weather Damage - Lamington National Park (update 14 May): As a result of damage from Tropical Cyclone Alfred, some areas in Lamington National Park are closed until declared safe.
Published by the managing authority. Follow the link for the current wording; this page carries only what the snapshot held.
park_alert · Lamington National Park
Unplanned works - Woonoongoora Walkers' Camp (update 9 Jul): The Woonoongoora Walkers’ Camp is closed to new bookings from May to September 2026, due to works in the area. As a result, a temporary closure is in place from May to 30 September 2026, inclusive, weather permitting. Visitors can bypass the camping area and still complete the Gold Coast Hinterland Great Walk.
Published by the managing authority. Follow the link for the current wording; this page carries only what the snapshot held.
The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here when this page last read the feed. That is not the same as "open" — a feed is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.
On Country
Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Danggan Balun (Five Rivers) 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
- Eerigingboola Falls, Lamington National Park
- Lot on plan
- 496AP22466
- Coordinates
- -28.25106, 153.17036 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- waterfall
What this place was read from
- Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party boundaries (boundaries only) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-30
- QPWS park alerts (regional RSS) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-30
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16
- Protected areas of Queensland (estate polygons) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- Vegetation management regional ecosystem description database (VM REDD) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland remnant regional ecosystems (biodiversity status) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland detailed surface geology (1:100 000) — © State of Queensland (Geological Survey of Queensland) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland watercourse lines and water bodies — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- World heritage areas of Queensland — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23