Public Trails Computed from official land records

Brisbane · Carlton Hill

Carlton Hill from Alexandra Street

entry is a road 20 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class carlton-hill--from-alexandra-street

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

A lawful approach from Alexandra Street, with caveats.

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 -27.46004, 153.06404

That is Alexandra Street, where the walk below begins — 296 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.

-27.46004, 153.06404

An ordinary car reaches the start The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as trafficable by an ordinary vehicle.

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 Road reserve 1968712 nothing mapped 21.0 m 296.0° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1968408 nothing mapped 20.1 m 8.1° N Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1958338 nothing mapped 20.1 m 99.4° E Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 1968332 nothing mapped 75.4 m 99.4° E Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 1958300 nothing mapped 15.1 m 99.4° E Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 1968256 nothing mapped 83.7 m 113.4° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 1968446 nothing mapped 19.8 m 99.7° E Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 1975210 nothing mapped 40.5 m 85.1° E Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 295.7 m Chain confidence Official spatial — 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.

Caveats — what has to be said before walking this

  • Corner-point junction. Two parcels in the chain meet at a single survey point. They are legally continuous public land, but the junction has no width on the ground.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

under a quarter hour out and back

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

20 m up and 0 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 0 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

No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds — including where a way is mapped along it, because what was measured is the chain and not the way. Steps appear here only for a route that follows a surveyed way end to end.

How much climbing Read off the published contour layer

Distance along the route, 0 to 268.4 m · height 15.0 to 35.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
20.0 m
Total descent
0.0 m
Steepest sustained
10.8% over 92.9 m
Contour interval
5.0 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
78.4 m 15.0 m
128.7 m 20.0 m
175.4 m 25.0 m
232.4 m 30.0 m
268.4 m 35.0 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 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 8 legs from Alexandra Street, 295.7 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 the parcel below

    Parcel not resolved, recorded tenure "unresolved". 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: 1968712 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    21.0 m at 296.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1968712 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1968408 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.1 m at 8.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1968408 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1958338 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.1 m at 99.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1958338 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1968332 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    75.4 m at 99.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1968332 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 1958300 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    15.1 m at 99.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1958300 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 1968256 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    83.7 m at 113.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1968256 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 1968446 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    19.8 m at 99.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1968446 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 1975210 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    40.5 m at 85.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1975210 Grade official_spatial

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Official spatial — evidence class

    Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest class in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at statutory inference.

    Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Carlton Hill
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-27.46024, 153.06636 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
hill

What this approach was read from