Public Trails Computed from official land records

Brisbane · Norman Creek

Norman Creek from Holman Street

entry is a road chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class norman-creek--from-holman-street

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

A lawful approach from Holman 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 -27.46587, 153.03699

That is Holman Street, where the walk below begins — 2.0 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.

-27.46587, 153.03699

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 Watercourse bed 2531305 nothing mapped 213.4 m 141.9° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
2 Watercourse bed 2531419 nothing mapped 174.3 m 150.1° SSE Statutory inference — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 2138993 nothing mapped 438.1 m 158.4° SSE Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 2171635 nothing mapped 345.3 m 157.7° SSE Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 2530811 nothing mapped 610.2 m 93.9° E Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 2121399 nothing mapped 190.6 m 109.3° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 2425209 nothing mapped 10.5 m 75.9° ENE Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 2421485 nothing mapped 13.2 m 16.0° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1995.6 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 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.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2531305 and 2138993 is 173.48 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2531419 and 2171635 is 408.55 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2138993 and 2530811 is 312.15 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2171635 and 2121399 is 385.58 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2530811 and 2425209 is 138.01 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2121399 and 2421485 is 0.00 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

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track. The climb on this route could not be measured, so the figure is flat-ground time and the real walk is longer.

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 No contour cover along this line

No profile is published for this route. The contour layer does not cross its line often enough to describe a climb, and a profile drawn from anything else would be a guess about the ground.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 8 legs from Holman Street, 1995.6 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 2421485, 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: 2531305 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    213.4 m at 141.9°. 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 2531305 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 2: 2531419 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    174.3 m at 150.1°. 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 2531419 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 3: 2138993 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    438.1 m at 158.4°. 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 2138993 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 2171635 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    345.3 m at 157.7°. 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 2171635 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 2530811 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    610.2 m at 93.9°. 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 2530811 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 2121399 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    190.6 m at 109.3°. 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 2121399 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 2425209 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    10.5 m at 75.9°. 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 2425209 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 2421485 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    13.2 m at 16.0°. 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 2421485 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
Norman Creek
Lot on plan
2421485
Coordinates
-27.47611, 153.05028 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

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