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

Witches Falls

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

Gazetted name Difficulty: Class 4 -27.93378, 153.17256 Tamborine National Park · National Park waterfall

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

Public land — inside Tamborine 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.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Witches Falls. 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 Tamborine 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 basalt, mapped as Beechmont Basalt (Tlb) , 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% — Eucalyptus saligna or E. grandis tall open forest on Cainozoic igneous rocks 12.8.8 · 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 33.1 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 7.8 m of ground — 1 m down for every 1.6 m 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	"Witches Falls" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	441NPW909	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	Tamborine National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 2,094 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 22 Oct 2021; first gazetted 28 Mar 1908; 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	Found by the terrain rule falls-rule/1, which fired because the bed loses 15.0 m within 33.1 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 7.8 m. A rule fired — nobody surveyed it.	Statutory inference — evidence class

Where it is

Map — covers Scenic Rim

Map of Witches Falls and the starts of the 12 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 reaches somewhere to see it from Official spatial — evidence class

Witches Falls passes 66 m from the recorded point. There is 55 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 12 published of 88 computed

88 ways in were computed and 12 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.