Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast · Beechmont Range

Beechmont Range from Nixon Creek Road

entry is a road 850 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class beechmont-range--from-nixon-creek-road

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

A lawful approach from Nixon Creek 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 -28.16547, 153.21495

That is Nixon Creek Road, where the walk below begins — 9.3 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.

-28.16547, 153.21495

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 Road reserve 1238604 nothing mapped 369.5 m 94.0° E Official spatial — evidence class
2 Watercourse bed 1239478 nothing mapped 25.5 m 42.8° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1239668 Nerang Murwillumbah Road open 6.8 m 31.5° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 1239440 nothing mapped 38.5 m 34.7° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 1238718 nothing mapped 234.9 m 96.1° E Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Road reserve 136244 an unnamed formed natural unassessed 21.2 m 130.5° SE Official spatial — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 136016 nothing mapped 2080.1 m 166.6° SSE Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 541096 nothing mapped 1490.6 m 160.9° SSE Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Road reserve 542502 nothing mapped 87.9 m 280.8° W Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 541590 nothing mapped 1147.0 m 334.8° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 136434 nothing mapped 1276.0 m 281.8° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
12 Protected estate 496AP22466 nothing mapped 1216.2 m 323.0° NW Official spatial — evidence class
13 Watercourse bed 136586 nothing mapped 46.2 m 13.6° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
14 Protected estate 496AP22466 nothing mapped 1262.9 m 307.8° NW Official spatial — evidence class
Total 28.0 m mapped 9303.3 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 1238604 and 1239668 is 24.26 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1239668 and 1238718 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1239440 and 136244 is 132.30 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 136244 and 541096 is 1979.92 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 136016 and 542502 is 1446.66 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 496AP22466 and 496AP22466 is 7.88 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No steps, but the record maps ground here

at least 5¾ hours out and back

at least 3¼ hours there at least 2½ hours back

850 m up and 380 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 380 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

What is mapped along this chain

A managing authority has surveyed a way along 28 m of this 9303 m chain — about 0% of it. That is a statement about what is on the ground, not about your right to be there, which the parcels above already settled, and not a direction: no step below is measured along any of these ways.

  • Leg 3 Nerang Murwillumbah Road Official spatial — evidence class

    7 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Local Government Authority).

  • Leg 6 an unnamed formed natural Official spatial — evidence class

    21 m along it · the authority maps it but publishes no assessment of it (Non Government).

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 9268.0 m · height 130.0 to 625.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
850.0 m
Total descent
380.0 m
Steepest sustained
165.8% over 54.3 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
68.4 m 155.0 m
134.2 m 160.0 m
162.9 m 160.0 m
213.7 m 155.0 m
252.2 m 150.0 m
279.0 m 145.0 m
293.9 m 140.0 m
349.7 m 135.0 m
406.3 m 130.0 m
572.2 m 130.0 m
1006.1 m 135.0 m
1193.3 m 140.0 m
1398.6 m 145.0 m
1448.4 m 150.0 m
1492.3 m 155.0 m
1549.1 m 155.0 m
1568.6 m 150.0 m
1616.9 m 150.0 m
1642.7 m 155.0 m
1671.7 m 160.0 m
1737.4 m 160.0 m
1938.1 m 155.0 m
1963.5 m 150.0 m
1991.3 m 145.0 m
2000.0 m 145.0 m
2026.7 m 150.0 m
2065.0 m 155.0 m
2213.5 m 155.0 m
2227.1 m 150.0 m
2241.1 m 145.0 m
2360.8 m 145.0 m
2436.5 m 145.0 m
2908.4 m 145.0 m
2937.2 m 145.0 m
2959.8 m 145.0 m
2975.4 m 150.0 m
3011.9 m 150.0 m
3025.4 m 150.0 m
3067.9 m 155.0 m
3075.8 m 155.0 m
3124.2 m 155.0 m
3277.6 m 155.0 m
3302.4 m 150.0 m
3438.0 m 150.0 m
3444.5 m 150.0 m
3456.8 m 150.0 m
3464.0 m 150.0 m
3466.2 m 150.0 m
3508.9 m 150.0 m
3517.5 m 150.0 m
3686.4 m 155.0 m
3802.7 m 155.0 m
3854.6 m 155.0 m
4020.8 m 155.0 m
4067.3 m 155.0 m
4335.3 m 160.0 m
4371.1 m 160.0 m
4756.8 m 155.0 m
4759.2 m 155.0 m
4816.3 m 160.0 m
4838.5 m 160.0 m
4906.4 m 160.0 m
4924.8 m 165.0 m
4966.4 m 165.0 m
4969.7 m 165.0 m
5016.7 m 170.0 m
5088.2 m 175.0 m
5171.4 m 175.0 m
5175.0 m 175.0 m
5188.5 m 175.0 m
5243.5 m 170.0 m
5275.4 m 165.0 m
5285.6 m 160.0 m
5300.4 m 160.0 m
5318.4 m 160.0 m
5326.5 m 160.0 m
5346.1 m 160.0 m
5367.8 m 155.0 m
5386.7 m 150.0 m
5420.9 m 150.0 m
5462.6 m 155.0 m
5564.7 m 160.0 m
5711.2 m 165.0 m
5734.0 m 170.0 m
5756.0 m 175.0 m
5784.4 m 180.0 m
5845.3 m 185.0 m
5869.2 m 190.0 m
5879.9 m 195.0 m
5891.5 m 200.0 m
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5913.3 m 210.0 m
5921.6 m 215.0 m
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6034.9 m 210.0 m
6046.1 m 215.0 m
6065.4 m 220.0 m
6085.2 m 225.0 m
6097.7 m 230.0 m
6112.0 m 235.0 m
6130.6 m 240.0 m
6141.0 m 245.0 m
6151.1 m 250.0 m
6161.6 m 255.0 m
6169.7 m 260.0 m
6180.5 m 265.0 m
6189.5 m 270.0 m
6196.1 m 275.0 m
6204.0 m 280.0 m
6223.5 m 285.0 m
6233.3 m 290.0 m
6284.3 m 295.0 m
6361.7 m 295.0 m
6383.8 m 290.0 m
6399.5 m 285.0 m
6415.9 m 280.0 m
6416.9 m 280.0 m
6426.7 m 285.0 m
6432.3 m 290.0 m
6440.6 m 295.0 m
6452.6 m 300.0 m
6464.8 m 305.0 m
6478.2 m 310.0 m
6489.3 m 315.0 m
6499.2 m 320.0 m
6511.3 m 325.0 m
6529.3 m 330.0 m
6542.2 m 335.0 m
6560.5 m 340.0 m
6626.4 m 345.0 m
6636.0 m 350.0 m
6646.8 m 355.0 m
6662.5 m 360.0 m
6678.5 m 365.0 m
6689.3 m 370.0 m
6699.8 m 375.0 m
6709.6 m 380.0 m
6720.3 m 385.0 m
6727.6 m 390.0 m
6732.7 m 395.0 m
6738.9 m 400.0 m
6746.7 m 405.0 m
6757.2 m 410.0 m
6768.4 m 415.0 m
6805.0 m 420.0 m
6870.6 m 420.0 m
6905.8 m 415.0 m
6919.5 m 410.0 m
6929.5 m 405.0 m
6942.5 m 400.0 m
6955.9 m 395.0 m
6967.8 m 390.0 m
6978.2 m 385.0 m
6987.5 m 380.0 m
6996.9 m 375.0 m
7005.6 m 370.0 m
7013.5 m 365.0 m
7025.1 m 360.0 m
7039.4 m 355.0 m
7050.7 m 350.0 m
7056.9 m 345.0 m
7063.6 m 340.0 m
7104.5 m 335.0 m
7119.7 m 335.0 m
7143.7 m 340.0 m
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7176.8 m 335.0 m
7187.2 m 330.0 m
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7203.3 m 320.0 m
7217.7 m 315.0 m
7232.9 m 310.0 m
7240.3 m 305.0 m
7246.7 m 300.0 m
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7258.2 m 305.0 m
7285.4 m 305.0 m
7291.3 m 300.0 m
7296.2 m 295.0 m
7301.4 m 290.0 m
7330.6 m 285.0 m
7341.1 m 285.0 m
7349.6 m 285.0 m
7362.3 m 280.0 m
7369.8 m 275.0 m
7395.8 m 270.0 m
7421.3 m 265.0 m
7438.9 m 260.0 m
7478.5 m 255.0 m
7501.0 m 250.0 m
7514.8 m 245.0 m
7532.8 m 240.0 m
7551.1 m 235.0 m
7561.9 m 230.0 m
7594.8 m 225.0 m
7606.6 m 220.0 m
7623.2 m 215.0 m
7641.7 m 210.0 m
7663.5 m 205.0 m
7689.8 m 200.0 m
7723.3 m 195.0 m
7766.6 m 190.0 m
7810.1 m 185.0 m
7883.0 m 185.0 m
7904.0 m 190.0 m
7925.0 m 190.0 m
7940.5 m 185.0 m
7949.1 m 180.0 m
7959.5 m 175.0 m
8001.6 m 170.0 m
8066.8 m 170.0 m
8100.9 m 175.0 m
8111.0 m 180.0 m
8137.2 m 185.0 m
8175.4 m 190.0 m
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8281.0 m 200.0 m
8295.4 m 205.0 m
8319.6 m 210.0 m
8340.3 m 215.0 m
8358.3 m 220.0 m
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8408.0 m 230.0 m
8431.0 m 235.0 m
8450.3 m 240.0 m
8473.8 m 245.0 m
8492.7 m 250.0 m
8509.3 m 255.0 m
8522.0 m 260.0 m
8539.0 m 265.0 m
8557.9 m 270.0 m
8575.8 m 275.0 m
8587.2 m 280.0 m
8599.9 m 285.0 m
8611.5 m 290.0 m
8627.4 m 295.0 m
8649.6 m 300.0 m
8671.7 m 305.0 m
8693.7 m 310.0 m
8716.0 m 315.0 m
8734.3 m 320.0 m
8752.0 m 325.0 m
8770.2 m 330.0 m
8791.8 m 335.0 m
8807.6 m 340.0 m
8853.9 m 345.0 m
8861.4 m 350.0 m
8875.6 m 355.0 m
8894.6 m 360.0 m
8903.5 m 365.0 m
8915.5 m 370.0 m
8924.5 m 375.0 m
8931.4 m 380.0 m
8938.8 m 385.0 m
8951.9 m 390.0 m
8961.3 m 395.0 m
8969.1 m 400.0 m
8976.3 m 405.0 m
8982.4 m 410.0 m
8989.1 m 415.0 m
8995.6 m 420.0 m
9001.8 m 425.0 m
9008.8 m 430.0 m
9014.9 m 435.0 m
9023.1 m 440.0 m
9030.6 m 445.0 m
9036.5 m 450.0 m
9043.3 m 455.0 m
9050.2 m 460.0 m
9057.5 m 465.0 m
9063.1 m 470.0 m
9066.8 m 475.0 m
9069.8 m 480.0 m
9074.5 m 485.0 m
9080.3 m 490.0 m
9083.8 m 495.0 m
9087.7 m 500.0 m
9093.8 m 505.0 m
9099.5 m 510.0 m
9102.8 m 515.0 m
9106.2 m 520.0 m
9108.1 m 525.0 m
9109.2 m 530.0 m
9110.5 m 535.0 m
9112.0 m 540.0 m
9113.3 m 545.0 m
9115.1 m 550.0 m
9116.9 m 555.0 m
9118.7 m 560.0 m
9121.1 m 565.0 m
9126.4 m 570.0 m
9133.5 m 575.0 m
9140.5 m 580.0 m
9147.3 m 585.0 m
9155.6 m 590.0 m
9163.9 m 595.0 m
9181.6 m 600.0 m
9210.3 m 605.0 m
9235.7 m 610.0 m
9246.2 m 615.0 m
9256.0 m 620.0 m
9268.0 m 625.0 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: 14 legs from Nixon Creek Road, 9303.3 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 Official spatial — evidence class

    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

  • Leg 1: 1238604 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    369.5 m at 94.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1238604 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1239478 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    25.5 m at 42.8°. 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 1239478 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 3: 1239668 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    6.8 m at 31.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1239668 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1239440 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    38.5 m at 34.7°. 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 1239440 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 1238718 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    234.9 m at 96.1°. 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 1238718 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 136244 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    21.2 m at 130.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 136244 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 136016 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    2080.1 m at 166.6°. 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 136016 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 541096 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1490.6 m at 160.9°. 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 541096 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 542502 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    87.9 m at 280.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 542502 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 541590 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1147.0 m at 334.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 541590 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 136434 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1276.0 m at 281.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 136434 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 496AP22466 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1216.2 m at 323.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 496AP22466 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 136586 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    46.2 m at 13.6°. 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 136586 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 14: 496AP22466 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1262.9 m at 307.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 496AP22466 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

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Beechmont Range, Lamington National Park
Lot on plan
496AP22466
Coordinates
-28.16849, 153.19547 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
range