Park Toilets in Queensland

Of the 9,681 public toilets in parks and reserves on the national map, 2,075 are in Queensland. That makes it the third-largest state total, behind New South Wales (2,713) and Victoria (2,629). They sit in 1,001 named towns.

The largest clusters are at Surfers Paradise (12), Atherton (11) and Mount Coot-Tha (11). Those 3 account for 34 of the 2,075; a further 511 towns record exactly one.

Named listings include Barrett Street Park (Water Reserve), Zoe Bay - Hinchinbrook Island National Park, Fitzgerald Park and Henry Lawson Bicentennial Park. Around Surfers Paradise the listings run to McIntosh Island Park 2, Lionel Perry Park and Neddy Harper and William Duncan Park.

Of the 2,075, 1,187 have parking on site, 358 have drinking water and 1,426 are recorded as wheelchair accessible. That is 46% of every public toilet recorded in Queensland (4,551 in total), and 51% of those open 24 hours.

1,426 of the 2,075 are recorded as wheelchair accessible — such as Theo Greene Park and Picnic Point. 18 are Changing Places facilities, with an adult-sized change table and a hoist — among them Peppertree Park and Strand Changing Places. 15 open with an MLAK key, the national Master Locksmiths Access Key — among them Calamvale District Park and Mt Coot-Tha Visitor Information Centre. 6 need a key from the operator instead, which means finding whoever holds it before you arrive. 279 of the 2,075 have a baby-change table, and 260 of those sit at a site that is also wheelchair accessible.

1,189 of the 2,075 are published as open 24 hours — among them Kookaburra Park - West and Tuckeroo Park. 519 open in daylight hours only, 100 list variable hours and 2 follow the host venue's hours. The widest published window runs 4am to 11pm, at Tom Jeffery Memorial Park. 22 are shown as closed on Mondays. 620 publish no weekly hours at all, so treat those as unknown rather than open.

7 of the 2,075 charge for entry; the rest are free — the charging ones being Pebble Creek Parklands and Kia Ora Standown Park Dump Point. This is the largest category in the dataset by a wide margin, and it stretches from a single pan in a pocket park to a serviced block in a regional park. Many are locked at dusk even where no closing time is published. These numbers come straight from the National Public Toilet Map, so confirm anything you are relying on before you set out.