Scenic Rim Official spatial — evidence class · Scenic Rim · QLD

Paddys Waterfall

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

Community name -28.22743, 152.71117 Mount Barney National Park · National Park waterfall

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

Public land — inside Mount Barney 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 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.

Paddys Waterfall sits on Paddys Gully. 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 Mount Barney 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 Tir-SEQ (Tir) , oligocene - miocene in age. The survey describes it as: Intrusive rhyolite Official spatial — evidence class

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

100% — Open forest with Eucalyptus acmenoides or E. helidonica on Cainozoic igneous rocks especially trachyte 12.8.25 · 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 7.3 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 2.1 m of ground — 2.4 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	"Paddys Waterfall" 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	1AP19334	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	Mount Barney National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 18,265 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 13 Dec 2019; first gazetted 13 Jun 1938; no encumbrance recorded.	Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse	Paddys Gully, 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 7.3 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 2.1 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 — covers Scenic Rim

Map of Paddys Waterfall and the starts of the 5 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

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.

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

Mount Maroon Boundary Fireline passes 107 m from the recorded point. There is 15 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 5 published of 11 computed

11 ways in were computed and 5 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.