[5] For countless generations, the Blackall Range has held spiritual significance for many Aboriginal people throughout South East Queensland.

Abundant bunya pines growing throughout this area produced large nut crops, providing enough food for huge gatherings.

Many invited guests travelled great distances from coastal and inland areas to share food, songs and dances, arrange marriages, and other social interactions.

[8] Mapleton Provisional School opened on 17 July 1899 with an initial enrolment of 15 students under teacher Lizzie Fitzgerald.

[citation needed] The Mapleton Methodist Church was officially opened on Sunday 11 July 1909 by the Reverend W. Stanley Bath.

[16] The school grounds are large and include Baxters Creek and a new covered multi-purpose area, administration offices and resource centre which opened in December 2009.

Next door, in the Old School House, is a secondhand clothing shop that raises money for the Sunshine Coast Community Hospice.

[citation needed] The largest attraction of visitors to the town is the Queensland Conference and Camping (QCCC) Outdoor Education Centre which was built in 1983.

The facility hosts 30,000 guests annually, most of them school children The 55-acre property has more than twenty activity options and employs eighty local people.

[citation needed] The Park marks the point just west of Mapleton where Pencil Creek cascades 120 metres (390 ft) over an escarpment.

This small, day-use-only park, shelters many bird species, including the peregrine falcon, eastern whipbird and wompoo fruit-dove.

From the open, grassy picnic area, the Wompoo circuit winds through eucalypts and rainforest where visitors may hear the fruit-dove's booming calls, wallock-a-woo and book-a-roo.

[citation needed] The Lilyponds area was for many years a swamp and underwent an $800,000 makeover to turn it into a community park.

There is a 2.2-kilometre (1.4 mi) walk called the Linda Garrett circuit which passes through rainforest, a palm grove and tall, wet, eucalypt forest.

The great barred frog may be seen along Gheerulla Creek and birdwatchers may hear the melodic, drumming call of the endangered marbled frogmouth.

[citation needed] This Wikipedia article incorporates text from Nature, culture and history: Mapleton Falls National Park (14 November 2019) by Parks and forests, Department of Environment and Science published by the Queensland Government under CC-BY-4.0 licence, accessed on 18 November 2021.