Public Trails Computed from official land records

Brisbane · Moggill Creek

Moggill Creek from Centenary Highway

entry is a road 0 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class moggill-creek--from-centenary-highway

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

A lawful approach from Centenary Highway, 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 -27.53198, 152.94591

That is Centenary Highway, where the walk below begins — 2.4 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.

-27.53198, 152.94591

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 334636 nothing mapped 407.2 m 15.3° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Watercourse bed 2268188 nothing mapped 93.1 m 303.7° WNW Statutory inference — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 2268112 nothing mapped 161.3 m 275.3° W Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 2356842 nothing mapped 325.2 m 272.0° W Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 2268758 nothing mapped 531.1 m 271.2° W Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 2268872 nothing mapped 660.2 m 263.8° W Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 2272368 nothing mapped 264.0 m 246.2° WSW Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 2442.1 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

  • 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 334636 and 2268112 is 53.15 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2268188 and 2356842 is 150.27 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2268112 and 2268758 is 321.71 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2356842 and 2268872 is 501.16 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2268758 and 2272368 is 450.49 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 1 hour out and back

at least half an hour there at least half an hour back

0 m up and 5 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 5 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 400.6 m · height 5.0 to 10.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
0.0 m
Total descent
5.0 m
Steepest sustained
2.3% over 213.6 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
187.0 m 10.0 m
376.4 m 10.0 m
400.6 m 5.0 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: 7 legs from Centenary Highway, 2442.1 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 2407073, recorded tenure "Watercourse". 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: 334636 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    407.2 m at 15.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 334636 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 2268188 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    93.1 m at 303.7°. 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 2268188 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 3: 2268112 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    161.3 m at 275.3°. 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 2268112 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 2356842 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    325.2 m at 272.0°. 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 2356842 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 2268758 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    531.1 m at 271.2°. 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 2268758 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 2268872 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    660.2 m at 263.8°. 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 2268872 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 2272368 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    264.0 m at 246.2°. 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 2272368 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

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Location
Moggill Creek
Lot on plan
2407073
Coordinates
-27.52924, 152.92684 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

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