Gold Creek Trail

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A walking trail around Gold Creek Reservoir connecting to the Enoggera Reservoir trail network, managed by Seqwater.

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Distance

2.01 km

Est. time

39 min

Elevation gain

84 m

Route type

Point to point

Steepest stretch: +37m over ~300m (around the 1.4km mark)

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In an emergency

Call 000 for police, fire or ambulance — Australia's emergency number works even with a weak signal, and without a SIM if any carrier has coverage.

You're in Gold Creek Reservoir / Enoggera, Brisbane Forest Park / Brookfield. Mobile reception in this area is not guaranteed — this is exactly why the offline map and GPS position on this page work without signal.

Tell someone your plan and expected return time before you set off. A PLB is the most reliable backup where there's no reception at all.

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Species to look for on this trail

Ancient trees and rare flora confirmed in this park. Spot one? Add it as a sighting pin below.

Hoop Pine

Araucaria cunninghamii

Ancient conifer emergent, can live 450 years▾

Ancient conifer emergent, can live 450 years

A tall emergent conifer of subtropical rainforest that can grow to 60m and live for up to 450 years. Confirmed growing at Enoggera Creek near The Gap, and recorded in the plant list for Kondalilla National Park alongside piccabeen palms and casuarinas.

How to spot it

Rough, banded bark that splits and peels naturally. Young trees have soft, awl-shaped leaves; mature trees switch to small, scale-like, incurved leaves. Easy to spot poking up above the rainforest canopy as a distinct emergent conifer, unlike the broadleaf trees around it.

Family Araucariaceae · Source: Wikipedia: Kondalilla National Park

Photo: John Robert McPherson (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons