Public Trails Computed from official land records

Brisbane · Wolston Creek

Wolston Creek from Lather Road

entry is a road chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class wolston-creek--from-lather-road

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

A lawful approach from Lather 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 -27.55778, 152.89909

That is Lather Road, where the walk below begins — 1.7 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.

-27.55778, 152.89909

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 4266116 nothing mapped 93.7 m 198.5° SSW Statutory inference — evidence class
2 Watercourse bed 1550819 nothing mapped 467.0 m 237.0° WSW Statutory inference — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 1550857 nothing mapped 460.9 m 135.6° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 1617851 nothing mapped 137.8 m 142.8° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 1484395 nothing mapped 286.6 m 131.0° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 1484433 nothing mapped 93.4 m 141.1° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 1617889 nothing mapped 70.6 m 159.8° SSE Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 1497505 nothing mapped 97.7 m 185.2° S Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1707.7 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 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 4266116 and 1550857 is 79.99 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1550819 and 1617851 is 441.61 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1550857 and 1484395 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1617851 and 1484433 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1484395 and 1617889 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1484433 and 1497505 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 half an hour out and back

at least a quarter of an hour there at least a quarter of 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 Lather Road, 1707.7 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 Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 1497505, 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: 4266116 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    93.7 m at 198.5°. 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 4266116 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 2: 1550819 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    467.0 m at 237.0°. 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 1550819 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 3: 1550857 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    460.9 m at 135.6°. 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 1550857 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 1617851 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    137.8 m at 142.8°. 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 1617851 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 1484395 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    286.6 m at 131.0°. 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 1484395 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 1484433 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    93.4 m at 141.1°. 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 1484433 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 1617889 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    70.6 m at 159.8°. 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 1617889 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 1497505 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    97.7 m at 185.2°. 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 1497505 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
Wolston Creek
Lot on plan
1497505
Coordinates
-27.56867, 152.90187 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from