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Gold Coast Hinterland · QLD

Gwahlahla Falls

Gazetted name — a register entry in its own right A -28.27028, 153.16722 Lamington National Park · National Park waterfall

A Gazetted / register — The fact is itself a statutory record.
B Official spatial record — Read from a maintained government layer.
C Statutory inference — Law applied to B-grade records; not ground-truthed.
D Community record — Community sources; labelled, never blended into A–C.

Access verdict · tier 1 of 4 · confidence B (official spatial record, the weakest grade in the chain)

Public land — inside Lamington National Park. A formal 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 tier and its own caveats.

1 · Formal track A managed track on public estate, end to end. Walk it. This page is here.
2 · Public estate, no track Lawful to be there; unmanaged terrain and route caveats below.
3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published.
4 · No lawful route Enclosed by land the public has no right to cross. No route published.

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

On the record — what the registers actually say Dataset versions in the footer

What each register holds about this place
Claim	What the record says	Evidence
Name	"Gwahlahla Falls" is a gazetted register entry.	A — provenance grade A: Gazetted / register
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Parcel	496AP22466	B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Estate	Lamington National Park, designated National Park.	B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Feature	Recorded as a waterfall in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

Where it is

Map

Context map for Gwahlahla Falls: parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around the point.

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.

Approaches — one page each, refusals included 5 computed from lawful entry candidates

Gwahlahla Falls from walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

B · tier 1 gwahlahla-falls--from-walking-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service

Verdict: tier 1
One way: 1207.7 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.

Gwahlahla Falls from walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

B · tier 1 gwahlahla-falls--from-walking-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service-2

Verdict: tier 1
One way: 1207.7 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.

Gwahlahla Falls from walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

B · tier 1 gwahlahla-falls--from-walking-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service-3

Verdict: tier 1
One way: 1207.7 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.

Gwahlahla Falls from walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

B · tier 1 gwahlahla-falls--from-walking-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service-4

Verdict: tier 1
One way: 1224.1 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.

Gwahlahla Falls from walking track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

B · tier 1 gwahlahla-falls--from-walking-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service-5

Verdict: tier 1
One way: 1224.1 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 in the footer

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.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Danggan Balun (Five Rivers) People — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

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 an inference, at grade C, 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: Gwahlahla Falls, Lamington National Park
Lot on plan: 496AP22466
Coordinates: -28.27028, 153.16722 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature: waterfall

What this page will never do

No user pins

Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute and carries a grade, A to C. Community names are quarantined at grade D and labelled as such. Nothing on this page was dropped on a map by a stranger.
No invented lawfulness

Where tenure cannot be confirmed from the public record, the page says so instead of endorsing the route or quietly hiding it. Where no lawful corridor exists at all, none is published — the refusal is the answer.
No safety pretence

A tier is a tenure verdict, not a difficulty or safety rating. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.