Public Trails Computed from official land records

Brisbane · Ovens Head

Ovens Head from Daventry Street

entry is a road 0 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class ovens-head--from-daventry-street

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

A lawful approach from Daventry 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

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Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -27.48949, 153.00972

That is Daventry Street, where the walk below begins — 1.9 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.

-27.48949, 153.00972

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 3558554 nothing mapped 10.0 m 279.3° W Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 3557642 nothing mapped 80.4 m 265.2° W Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 3496424 nothing mapped 43.8 m 193.5° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 3496044 nothing mapped 176.6 m 111.3° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 3561708 nothing mapped 116.1 m 115.3° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 3271920 nothing mapped 106.6 m 109.0° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 3268766 nothing mapped 977.8 m 126.2° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 1410115 nothing mapped 127.0 m 126.6° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 1444505 nothing mapped 129.2 m 122.5° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
10 Road reserve 1444619 nothing mapped 54.4 m 140.9° SE Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 1399736 nothing mapped 113.6 m 187.2° S Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1935.5 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.

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 3496424 and 3561708 is 170.15 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3496044 and 3271920 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3561708 and 3268766 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3271920 and 1410115 is 720.09 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3268766 and 1444505 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1410115 and 1444619 is 26.38 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

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 1789.6 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
0.8% over 611.8 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
98.6 m 10.0 m
132.0 m 5.0 m
710.4 m 5.0 m
722.1 m 5.0 m
734.0 m 5.0 m
743.8 m 5.0 m
750.3 m 5.0 m
757.2 m 5.0 m
809.2 m 5.0 m
960.3 m 5.0 m
991.4 m 5.0 m
1083.6 m 5.0 m
1789.6 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: 11 legs from Daventry Street, 1935.5 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 the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 5SP202639, recorded tenure "Reserve". 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: 3558554 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    10.0 m at 279.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3558554 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 3557642 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    80.4 m at 265.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3557642 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 3496424 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    43.8 m at 193.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3496424 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 3496044 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    176.6 m at 111.3°. 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 3496044 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 3561708 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    116.1 m at 115.3°. 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 3561708 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 3271920 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    106.6 m at 109.0°. 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 3271920 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 3268766 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    977.8 m at 126.2°. 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 3268766 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 1410115 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    127.0 m at 126.6°. 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 1410115 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 1444505 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    129.2 m at 122.5°. 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 1444505 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 10: 1444619 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    54.4 m at 140.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1444619 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 1399736 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    113.6 m at 187.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1399736 Grade official_spatial

  • 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

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Location
Ovens Head
Lot on plan
5SP202639
Coordinates
-27.49917, 153.02278 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
cape

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