Gold Coast Hinterland · Purling Brook Falls
Purling Brook Falls from minimally formed natural track off Lyrebird Ridge Road
Access verdict · tier 2 of 4 · confidence C (statutory inference, the weakest grade in the chain)
A lawful approach from minimally formed natural track off Lyrebird Ridge 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.
- 1 · Formal track A managed track on public estate, end to end. Walk it.
- 2 · Public estate, no track Lawful to be there; unmanaged terrain and route caveats below. This page is here.
- 3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published.
- 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.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -28.18705, 153.25634
That is minimally formed natural track off Lyrebird Ridge Road, where the walk below begins — 1.8 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.
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- Your own map app hands the coordinate to an installed app, offline ones included
-28.18705, 153.25634
The coordinate is where the recorded way begins, read off the same layers as the walk. Which roads reach it, whether they are 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
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road reserve | 3752513 | 365.8 m | 39.6° NE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 2 | Road reserve | 3752665 | 169.3 m | 106.7° ESE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 3 | Road reserve | 544174 | 46.3 m | 29.1° NNE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 4 | Road reserve | 543642 | 165.2 m | 117.8° ESE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 5 | Road reserve | 3759619 | 458.8 m | 119.7° ESE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 6 | Protected estate | 5AP19371 | 542.6 m | 128.8° SE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 3755173 | 18.7 m | 84.4° E | C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference |
| 8 | Protected estate | 5AP19371 | 71.3 m | 20.6° NNE | B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record |
| Total | 1838.0 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
- 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 5AP19371 and 5AP19371 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
Following it on the ground No published way to follow
No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path: nobody has surveyed a way along it, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds. Where a managing authority does publish a way in, the steps appear here.
How much climbing Read off the published contour layer
- Total climb
- 23.0 m
- Total descent
- 188.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 158.8% over 60.4 m
- Contour interval
- 1.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 18.4 m | 645.0 m |
| 45.4 m | 644.0 m |
| 73.1 m | 643.0 m |
| 97.2 m | 642.0 m |
| 133.6 m | 641.0 m |
| 139.3 m | 641.0 m |
| 148.8 m | 641.0 m |
| 164.8 m | 640.0 m |
| 174.5 m | 640.0 m |
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| 198.6 m | 639.0 m |
| 205.2 m | 639.0 m |
| 205.9 m | 639.0 m |
| 228.3 m | 638.0 m |
| 243.9 m | 637.0 m |
| 254.0 m | 636.0 m |
| 273.7 m | 636.0 m |
| 284.4 m | 637.0 m |
| 373.7 m | 637.0 m |
| 386.3 m | 636.0 m |
| 399.4 m | 635.0 m |
| 409.1 m | 634.0 m |
| 423.2 m | 633.0 m |
| 435.9 m | 632.0 m |
| 447.2 m | 631.0 m |
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| 477.8 m | 629.0 m |
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| 482.3 m | 629.0 m |
| 492.7 m | 628.0 m |
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| 1836.5 m | 489.0 m |
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| 1836.9 m | 484.0 m |
| 1837.0 m | 483.0 m |
| 1837.1 m | 482.0 m |
| 1837.4 m | 481.0 m |
| 1837.7 m | 480.0 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 1.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 8 legs from minimally formed natural track off Lyrebird Ridge Road, 1838.0 m in total.
What the colours mean
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its tier in words
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions are listed in the footer of this page.
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
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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
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Leg 1: 3752513 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
365.8 m at 39.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3752513 Grade B
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Leg 2: 3752665 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
169.3 m at 106.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3752665 Grade B
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Leg 3: 544174 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
46.3 m at 29.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 544174 Grade B
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Leg 4: 543642 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
165.2 m at 117.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 543642 Grade B
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Leg 5: 3759619 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
458.8 m at 119.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3759619 Grade B
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Leg 6: 5AP19371 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
542.6 m at 128.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 5AP19371 Grade B
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Leg 7: 3755173 carries a right of passage C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference
18.7 m at 84.4°. 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 3755173 Grade C
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Leg 8: 5AP19371 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
71.3 m at 20.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 5AP19371 Grade B
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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
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Purling Brook Falls, Springbrook National Park
- Lot on plan
- 5AP19371
- Coordinates
- -28.18978, 153.27090 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- waterfall
What this page will never do
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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.
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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.
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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.