Public Trails Computed from official land records

Clarence Valley · Wilsons Head

Wilsons Head from Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02

entry is a track 4 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class wilsons-head--from-wilsons-headland-pa-east-trkx-02

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference

A lawful approach from Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02.

The chain below runs entirely across land the public has an established right to be on. It is a legal line, not a path: nothing here has been surveyed on the ground.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

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

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -29.82826, 153.28511

That is Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02, where the walk below begins — 623 m of it. Every link here goes to that coordinate and never to the feature itself, because a driving route to a waterfall is a driving route into the country above one.

-29.82826, 153.28511

The record does not say what reaches the start The roads layer leaves trafficability unstated on most of its rows, and it is unstated here. That is an absence of evidence, not an ordinary road: treat the last stretch as unresearched.

The coordinate is where the recorded way begins, read off the same layers as the walk. What the record says about a vehicle is above, and it describes this point rather than the drive to it. Whether the road is sealed, gated, or open today, and where a car may lawfully be left, are none of them things these records say — so treat the last few kilometres as unresearched, and the mapping service's route to them as its own work, not ours.

The chain, leg by leg Computed from cadastral geometry; never walked

Legs of the computed corridor, in order, with the grade of the record that made each one lawful
# Runs along Parcel / reference Mapped along it Distance Bearing Evidence
1 Track Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02 nothing mapped 31.0 m 189.6° S Official spatial — evidence class
2 Track Wilsons Headland (Trkx-Beach Stwy) 03 nothing mapped 261.5 m 128.6° SE Official spatial — evidence class
3 Track Wilsons Headland (Main Trk-Beach) 04 nothing mapped 65.0 m 191.6° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Track YCW (Wooli Beach N-Wooli Park Bndry) 24 nothing mapped 265.0 m 232.3° SW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 622.5 m Chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class

Every leg above is computed from cadastral geometry. Nobody has walked it, and no part of it is a path on the ground: it is the line along which the public record establishes a right to be. Where a leg names a way, that is what a managing authority has mapped down the same ground — it says nothing more about your right to be there, which the parcel already settled.

Following it on the ground Every step ends at something you can check

at least a quarter of an hour out and back

at least under a quarter hour there at least a quarter of an hour back

4 m up and 20 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 20 m.

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.

Naismith's rule, and what it does not account for

The way reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02 passes 27 m from the recorded point. The gap crosses no contour, which is as level as this layer can evidence — not a survey saying the ground is flat.

Both gaps are small enough that the way is a way to this place, not merely one near it.

  1. Follow Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02 for 135 m, setting off E (94°), to the junction with Wilsons Headland (Trkx-Beach Stwy) 03.

    Back: 274° along Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02, 135 m from the start.

  2. Follow Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02 for 158 m, setting off SSE (156°), to the junction with Wilsons Hdlnd (Beach Stwy-Boork Trk) 05.

    Back: 336° along Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02, 293 m from the start.

  3. Follow Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02 for 153 m, setting off SW (223°), to the junction with YCW (Wooli Beach N-Wooli Park Bndry) 24.

    Back: 43° along Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02, 446 m from the start.

  4. Follow Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02 for 177 m, setting off SW (226°), to arrive.

    Back: 46° along Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02, 623 m from the start.

623 m in total, along the way the managing authority publishes. Every step above ends at something the records let you check on the ground. Bearings are true, not magnetic: they match a phone compass with no conversion. In this part of Queensland a magnetic bezel reads about 11° east of them, so an analogue compass needs that taken off before you set it.

What each step ends at, and why Official spatial — evidence class
junction
A junction with another published way. Unmissable on the ground, and the place a wrong turn happens.
destination
The place itself, which is always where the last step ends.

A cadastral parcel boundary is never one of them. It is invisible on the ground, so a step that ended at one could never be checked — however convenient it looks in the data.

How much climbing Read off the published contour layer

Distance along the route, 0 to 322.7 m · height 4.0 to 20.0 m Read off 2.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
4.0 m
Total descent
20.0 m
Steepest sustained
15.9% over 50.2 m
Contour interval
2.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
Contour crossings along the route, in order, as distance along the route against mapped height
Distance along Height
10.0 m 20.0 m
10.0 m 20.0 m
17.2 m 18.0 m
23.6 m 16.0 m
26.8 m 14.0 m
30.5 m 12.0 m
54.5 m 12.0 m
60.2 m 12.0 m
123.2 m 10.0 m
123.2 m 10.0 m
136.4 m 8.0 m
146.2 m 8.0 m
149.0 m 8.0 m
156.2 m 8.0 m
162.0 m 8.0 m
181.0 m 8.0 m
215.9 m 8.0 m
249.0 m 8.0 m
268.5 m 10.0 m
268.5 m 10.0 m
276.3 m 12.0 m
298.3 m 12.0 m
304.7 m 10.0 m
304.7 m 10.0 m
309.2 m 8.0 m
315.0 m 6.0 m
322.7 m 4.0 m

The profile is the height the contour layer already records, read along the same line the legs above describe. It is not a survey of a path: nothing here says the ground between two contours is even, and a layer of 2.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 4 legs from Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02, 622.5 m in total.

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.

What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link

  • The destination sits on Yuraygir National Park Statutory inference — evidence class

    Parcel npws-896, recorded tenure "NATIONAL PARK". Being at the destination and reaching it are separate questions, and this page answers only the second.

    Cadastre and protected-area estate layers Attribution licensed

  • Leg 1: Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    31.0 m at 189.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Wilsons Headland (PA East-Trkx) 02 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: Wilsons Headland (Trkx-Beach Stwy) 03 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    261.5 m at 128.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Wilsons Headland (Trkx-Beach Stwy) 03 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: Wilsons Headland (Main Trk-Beach) 04 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    65.0 m at 191.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Wilsons Headland (Main Trk-Beach) 04 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: YCW (Wooli Beach N-Wooli Park Bndry) 24 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    265.0 m at 232.3°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference YCW (Wooli Beach N-Wooli Park Bndry) 24 Grade official_spatial

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Location
Wilsons Head, Yuraygir National Park
Lot on plan
npws-896
Coordinates
-29.83173, 153.28441 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
point

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