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The town's new page header is a colored-pencil view from the Blackall Range escarpment: the volcanic peaks of the Glass House Mountains rising across the dairy pasture, seen past the rainforest edge.

The next bus to Landsborough station or Nambour from Maple Street at Cooke Park, with the weekend timetable handled properly, the fares explained, and the train connection at Landsborough. Times come from Translink's printed timetable and were checked against their live departures.

The Queensland Fire Department's own home-preparation steps, arranged highest-impact first — embers before everything — with Maleny's one-road-down-the-range reality and the official channels. The season on this side of the range starts around August.

Where to fix, refill and drop off in town — the Fix It Café, the co-op, the op shop and the Witta recycling centre — plus honest notes on Containers for Change and soft plastics, so more stays out of landfill.

How Busy Is Maleny? shows how crowded town is likely to be on any day in the next few weeks — built from the weekend rhythm, Queensland school holidays and big events like Knitfest and the Music Festival — and points you to the calmest day to head in instead. It's a heads-up for the perennial weekend parking squeeze on Maple Street, which is tighter still while the streetscape works run through to about December 2026. A pattern, not a live count.

A neighbour-reported board for the roads up and down the range — the ways in and out that fog, flooding, a crash or a fallen tree can cut. Sign in to tap a road and say whether it's clear, slow going or blocked right now; the board shows the recent picture and clears itself as conditions change. It always points to the official QLDTraffic line (13 19 40) for closures, and to 000 and the SES (132 500) in an emergency — neighbours, not an authority.

Mary Cairncross rainforest reserve on the edge of town, the Mapleton Falls Wompoo circuit, and the Gardners Falls swimming hole — distances, surfaces, opening hours, what it costs, accessibility (including Mary Cairncross's free all-terrain wheelchair), and the honest safety notes for Gardners Falls, where there are no lifeguards.

Most homes around Maleny run on rainwater tanks. Put in your roof and household to see how much a typical year catches (from the Bureau of Meteorology's 100-year Maleny record), which months fill the tank, how far that water stretches — and, live, how much has actually fallen in the last 30 days. Built around the real question up here: not the yearly total, but bridging the dry June-to-September stretch. With Queensland Health's guidance on keeping tank water safe.

Maleny, high on the Blackall Range, now has its first tools — shaped by a town that takes its own preparedness seriously. There's a live bushfire check that reads the Queensland Fire Department's official feed and tells you whether anything is burning near town (planned hazard-reduction burns are listed separately); a wet-season rain picture comparing the last 30 days with the long-term average and the week ahead; a what's-on board with the Sunday market and the big annual events; and the local numbers worth keeping handy, including the SES for storms and floods.