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Gold Coast Hinterland · Stockyard Creek Falls

Stockyard Creek Falls from Road reserve 2506145

start -28.21105, 153.11783 entry is a road reserve chain confidence B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record stockyard-creek-falls--from-road-reserve-2506145
  • 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 B (official spatial record, the weakest grade in the chain)

A lawful approach from Road reserve 2506145, 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 Road reserve 2506145 74.8 m 117.0° ESE B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
2 Road reserve 2505917 425.2 m 211.6° SSW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
3 Protected estate 496AP22466 157.3 m 288.6° WNW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total 657.3 m Chain confidence B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

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.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 3 legs from Road reserve 2506145, 657.3 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 Lamington National Park B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    Parcel 496AP22466, 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: 2506145 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    74.8 m at 117.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2506145 Grade B

  • Leg 2: 2505917 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    425.2 m at 211.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2505917 Grade B

  • Leg 3: 496AP22466 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    157.3 m at 288.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 496AP22466 Grade B

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    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
Stockyard Creek Falls, Lamington National Park
Lot on plan
496AP22466
Coordinates
-28.21417, 153.11472 (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.