Public Trails Computed from official land records

Brisbane · Gap Creek

Gap Creek from Gold Creek Road

entry is a road 400 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class gap-creek--from-gold-creek-road

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference

A lawful approach from Gold Creek Road, 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 -27.49277, 152.91021

That is Gold Creek Road, where the walk below begins — 10.9 km 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.

-27.49277, 152.91021

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 Road reserve 783726 nothing mapped 680.4 m 351.4° N Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 780876 nothing mapped 371.8 m 337.2° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 780838 nothing mapped 89.0 m 347.2° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 3983966 nothing mapped 689.6 m 9.6° N Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 3984042 nothing mapped 217.9 m 150.2° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 3984194 nothing mapped 1061.4 m 359.5° N Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Road reserve 3983814 nothing mapped 318.4 m 17.6° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 3983852 nothing mapped 1061.6 m 2.9° N Official spatial — evidence class
9 Protected estate 2AP14648 nothing mapped 960.2 m 113.2° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 3984878 nothing mapped 243.7 m 184.4° S Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 3981800 nothing mapped 76.6 m 186.0° S Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 3982598 nothing mapped 687.5 m 110.7° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 3982636 nothing mapped 249.3 m 106.5° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 157163 nothing mapped 902.0 m 172.4° S Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 157315 nothing mapped 556.2 m 198.9° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
16 Road reserve 157201 nothing mapped 251.0 m 194.8° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
17 Road reserve 156935 nothing mapped 206.7 m 178.3° S Official spatial — evidence class
18 Road reserve 793758 nothing mapped 959.8 m 200.1° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
19 Road reserve 793416 nothing mapped 159.7 m 266.6° W Official spatial — evidence class
20 Watercourse bed 791972 nothing mapped 366.7 m 207.0° SSW Statutory inference — evidence class
21 Watercourse bed 792048 nothing mapped 396.5 m 251.4° WSW Statutory inference — evidence class
22 Road reserve 792086 nothing mapped 24.1 m 247.6° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
23 Watercourse bed 786994 nothing mapped 241.7 m 199.9° SSW Statutory inference — evidence class
24 Watercourse bed 786918 nothing mapped 109.8 m 207.4° SSW Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 10881.6 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.

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.
  • Watercourse crossing. The chain crosses a watercourse bed. The bed is State land by statutory inference, there is no structure, and the crossing is off in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3984042 and 3983814 is 862.51 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 793416 and 792048 is 325.73 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 791972 and 792086 is 328.62 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 792086 and 786918 is 230.88 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The gap between the parcels either side of this crossing could not be measured from the geometry, which is a reason for more caution, not less.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

at least 5¾ hours out and back

at least 2¾ hours there at least 3 hours back

400 m up and 405 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 405 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 10823.0 m · height 20.0 to 175.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
400.0 m
Total descent
405.0 m
Steepest sustained
49.7% over 50.3 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
44.7 m 25.0 m
65.1 m 25.0 m
271.8 m 30.0 m
279.1 m 30.0 m
282.3 m 30.0 m
637.9 m 35.0 m
896.2 m 40.0 m
973.5 m 45.0 m
1045.9 m 45.0 m
1110.1 m 40.0 m
1241.7 m 35.0 m
1289.6 m 35.0 m
1465.3 m 40.0 m
1469.6 m 40.0 m
1476.2 m 40.0 m
1648.1 m 40.0 m
1675.4 m 40.0 m
1784.4 m 45.0 m
1884.1 m 45.0 m
1976.5 m 40.0 m
2116.1 m 40.0 m
2162.2 m 45.0 m
2250.1 m 50.0 m
2289.5 m 55.0 m
2451.3 m 55.0 m
2467.2 m 50.0 m
2470.5 m 50.0 m
2520.7 m 55.0 m
2577.7 m 55.0 m
2612.7 m 50.0 m
2621.6 m 50.0 m
2640.9 m 55.0 m
2661.3 m 60.0 m
2692.4 m 65.0 m
2780.2 m 65.0 m
2806.0 m 60.0 m
2856.0 m 55.0 m
2896.3 m 50.0 m
2903.4 m 50.0 m
3027.4 m 50.0 m
3343.9 m 50.0 m
3353.2 m 55.0 m
3363.0 m 60.0 m
3375.6 m 65.0 m
3388.3 m 70.0 m
3436.2 m 70.0 m
3453.7 m 65.0 m
3470.6 m 60.0 m
3511.8 m 55.0 m
3539.4 m 55.0 m
3564.7 m 55.0 m
3570.0 m 55.0 m
3630.2 m 60.0 m
3675.5 m 60.0 m
3756.9 m 60.0 m
3759.6 m 60.0 m
3766.4 m 60.0 m
3797.2 m 65.0 m
3826.0 m 70.0 m
3885.3 m 70.0 m
3897.9 m 70.0 m
3918.9 m 75.0 m
3936.4 m 80.0 m
3954.0 m 85.0 m
4021.1 m 85.0 m
4047.5 m 80.0 m
4068.4 m 75.0 m
4105.7 m 75.0 m
4168.3 m 75.0 m
4181.2 m 75.0 m
4196.7 m 80.0 m
4215.6 m 85.0 m
4235.6 m 90.0 m
4253.6 m 95.0 m
4273.1 m 100.0 m
4293.0 m 105.0 m
4320.9 m 110.0 m
4363.0 m 115.0 m
4387.3 m 120.0 m
4404.5 m 125.0 m
4420.7 m 130.0 m
4436.7 m 135.0 m
4451.5 m 140.0 m
4467.2 m 145.0 m
4484.5 m 150.0 m
4520.4 m 150.0 m
4545.0 m 145.0 m
4565.2 m 140.0 m
4591.4 m 135.0 m
4608.1 m 130.0 m
4619.5 m 125.0 m
4629.2 m 120.0 m
4669.9 m 115.0 m
4691.6 m 110.0 m
4709.5 m 105.0 m
4722.5 m 105.0 m
4744.2 m 110.0 m
4758.3 m 115.0 m
4773.8 m 120.0 m
4787.6 m 125.0 m
4801.6 m 130.0 m
4841.3 m 130.0 m
4924.7 m 125.0 m
5008.7 m 120.0 m
5027.6 m 115.0 m
5045.0 m 110.0 m
5059.9 m 105.0 m
5075.8 m 100.0 m
5089.7 m 95.0 m
5107.9 m 90.0 m
5130.6 m 90.0 m
5136.3 m 90.0 m
5138.1 m 90.0 m
5198.3 m 95.0 m
5215.7 m 100.0 m
5231.0 m 105.0 m
5269.9 m 110.0 m
5287.2 m 115.0 m
5300.9 m 120.0 m
5311.0 m 125.0 m
5323.5 m 130.0 m
5339.8 m 135.0 m
5352.9 m 140.0 m
5365.2 m 145.0 m
5375.4 m 150.0 m
5384.6 m 155.0 m
5393.5 m 160.0 m
5404.0 m 165.0 m
5415.4 m 170.0 m
5433.7 m 175.0 m
5478.4 m 175.0 m
5519.7 m 170.0 m
5566.3 m 165.0 m
5603.4 m 165.0 m
5628.0 m 165.0 m
5755.9 m 165.0 m
5859.6 m 165.0 m
5886.6 m 160.0 m
5904.0 m 155.0 m
5918.7 m 150.0 m
5933.0 m 145.0 m
5946.4 m 140.0 m
5974.4 m 140.0 m
6000.2 m 145.0 m
6113.1 m 150.0 m
6119.4 m 150.0 m
6225.7 m 145.0 m
6249.4 m 140.0 m
6310.3 m 140.0 m
6328.2 m 145.0 m
6350.8 m 150.0 m
6639.5 m 150.0 m
6662.4 m 150.0 m
6691.4 m 150.0 m
6719.6 m 145.0 m
6732.6 m 140.0 m
6782.2 m 135.0 m
6808.4 m 130.0 m
6823.1 m 125.0 m
6834.6 m 120.0 m
6846.6 m 115.0 m
6857.7 m 110.0 m
6866.8 m 105.0 m
6877.9 m 105.0 m
6889.2 m 110.0 m
6952.1 m 110.0 m
6968.7 m 105.0 m
6984.1 m 100.0 m
6999.8 m 95.0 m
7017.7 m 90.0 m
7032.1 m 85.0 m
7066.3 m 85.0 m
7080.8 m 90.0 m
7096.3 m 95.0 m
7113.1 m 100.0 m
7131.5 m 105.0 m
7157.4 m 110.0 m
7173.4 m 110.0 m
7207.2 m 105.0 m
7224.4 m 100.0 m
7239.3 m 95.0 m
7253.8 m 90.0 m
7267.7 m 85.0 m
7280.8 m 80.0 m
7314.4 m 80.0 m
7330.0 m 85.0 m
7381.2 m 85.0 m
7405.1 m 85.0 m
7424.3 m 90.0 m
7441.6 m 95.0 m
7465.1 m 100.0 m
7611.0 m 100.0 m
7635.9 m 95.0 m
7657.1 m 90.0 m
7677.4 m 85.0 m
7703.8 m 80.0 m
7723.4 m 75.0 m
7765.8 m 70.0 m
7798.0 m 65.0 m
7906.3 m 60.0 m
7913.7 m 60.0 m
7966.5 m 60.0 m
8019.8 m 55.0 m
8077.6 m 55.0 m
8101.7 m 55.0 m
8140.3 m 50.0 m
8189.0 m 50.0 m
8225.7 m 55.0 m
8294.4 m 55.0 m
8362.2 m 50.0 m
8448.8 m 45.0 m
8550.9 m 40.0 m
8554.3 m 40.0 m
8571.4 m 45.0 m
8634.9 m 50.0 m
8734.2 m 50.0 m
8808.0 m 45.0 m
8840.4 m 40.0 m
8888.7 m 40.0 m
9011.8 m 40.0 m
9222.9 m 40.0 m
9324.0 m 40.0 m
9418.0 m 35.0 m
9541.2 m 35.0 m
9551.1 m 40.0 m
9578.3 m 45.0 m
9621.4 m 45.0 m
9650.4 m 40.0 m
9690.5 m 35.0 m
9789.5 m 30.0 m
9811.3 m 30.0 m
9832.9 m 30.0 m
9848.3 m 30.0 m
9886.3 m 30.0 m
9911.9 m 30.0 m
10030.1 m 30.0 m
10098.1 m 25.0 m
10101.4 m 25.0 m
10148.5 m 25.0 m
10155.5 m 25.0 m
10261.3 m 30.0 m
10324.2 m 30.0 m
10465.9 m 25.0 m
10823.0 m 20.0 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: 24 legs from Gold Creek Road, 10881.6 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 Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 7RP105350, recorded tenure "Freehold". 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: 783726 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    680.4 m at 351.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 783726 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 780876 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    371.8 m at 337.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 780876 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 780838 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    89.0 m at 347.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 780838 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 3983966 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    689.6 m at 9.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3983966 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 3984042 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    217.9 m at 150.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3984042 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 3984194 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1061.4 m at 359.5°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 3984194 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 3983814 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    318.4 m at 17.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3983814 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 3983852 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1061.6 m at 2.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3983852 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 2AP14648 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    960.2 m at 113.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2AP14648 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 3984878 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    243.7 m at 184.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3984878 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 3981800 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    76.6 m at 186.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3981800 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 3982598 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    687.5 m at 110.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3982598 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 3982636 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    249.3 m at 106.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3982636 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 157163 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    902.0 m at 172.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 157163 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 157315 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    556.2 m at 198.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 157315 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 157201 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    251.0 m at 194.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 157201 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 156935 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    206.7 m at 178.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 156935 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 18: 793758 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    959.8 m at 200.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 793758 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 19: 793416 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    159.7 m at 266.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 793416 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 20: 791972 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    366.7 m at 207.0°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 791972 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 21: 792048 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    396.5 m at 251.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 792048 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 22: 792086 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    24.1 m at 247.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 792086 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 23: 786994 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    241.7 m at 199.9°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 786994 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 24: 786918 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    109.8 m at 207.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 786918 Grade statutory_inference

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Statutory inference — 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
Gap Creek
Lot on plan
7RP105350
Coordinates
-27.49783, 152.91558 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from