Public Trails Legal access to wild places, computed from official records

Gold Coast Hinterland · Gorge Falls

Gorge Falls from Road reserve 3778923

start -28.22401, 153.31500 entry is a road reserve chain confidence C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference gorge-falls--from-road-reserve-3778923
  • A Gazetted / register — The fact is itself a statutory record.
  • B Official spatial record — Read from a maintained government layer.
  • C Statutory inference — Law applied to B-grade records; not ground-truthed.
  • D Community record — Community sources; labelled, never blended into A–C.

Access verdict · tier 2 of 4 · confidence C (statutory inference, the weakest grade in the chain)

A lawful approach from Road reserve 3778923, 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.

  1. 1 · Formal track A managed track on public estate, end to end. Walk it.
  2. 2 · Public estate, no track Lawful to be there; unmanaged terrain and route caveats below. This page is here.
  3. 3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published.
  4. 4 · No lawful route Enclosed by land the public has no right to cross. No route published.

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

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 Distance Bearing Evidence
1 Watercourse bed 3778771 363.3 m 174.1° S C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference
2 Protected estate 5AP19371 42.9 m 193.9° SSW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total 406.2 m Chain confidence C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

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.

Caveats — what kept this off tier 1

  • 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.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 2 legs from Road reserve 3778923, 406.2 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 Springbrook National Park B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    Parcel 5AP19371, recorded tenure "National Park". 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; see the footer

  • Leg 1: 3778771 carries a right of passage C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

    363.3 m at 174.1°. 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 3778771 Grade C

  • Leg 2: 5AP19371 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    42.9 m at 193.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 5AP19371 Grade B

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

    Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest grade in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at grade C.

    Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time

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Location
Gorge Falls (community name — not in any government register), Springbrook National Park
Lot on plan
5AP19371
Coordinates
-28.22765, 153.31528 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
waterfall

What this page will never do

  • No user pins

    Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute and carries a grade, A to C. Community names are quarantined at grade D and labelled as such. Nothing on this page was dropped on a map by a stranger.

  • No invented lawfulness

    Where tenure cannot be confirmed from the public record, the page says so instead of endorsing the route or quietly hiding it. Where no lawful corridor exists at all, none is published — the refusal is the answer.

  • No safety pretence

    A tier is a tenure verdict, not a difficulty or safety rating. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.