Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast · Bridge Creek

Bridge Creek from Nerang Murwillumbah Road

entry is a road 540 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class bridge-creek-4472--from-nerang-murwillumbah-road

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

A lawful approach from Nerang Murwillumbah 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 -28.00232, 153.29872

That is Nerang Murwillumbah Road, where the walk below begins — 9.1 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.

-28.00232, 153.29872

An ordinary car reaches the start The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as trafficable by an ordinary vehicle.

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 283646 Nerang Murwillumbah Road open 237.1 m 254.6° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 255032 nothing mapped 235.4 m 251.4° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 266090 nothing mapped 466.1 m 229.8° SW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 266128 Nerang Murwillumbah Road open 53.0 m 226.8° SW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 266242 nothing mapped 92.7 m 227.0° SW Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 258072 Nerang Murwillumbah Road open 85.7 m 239.1° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 254994 Nerang Murwillumbah Road open 256.9 m 227.5° SW Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 230256 nothing mapped 898.1 m 225.9° SW Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 226228 nothing mapped 248.8 m 230.9° SW Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 225430 nothing mapped 1307.1 m 231.5° SW Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 227140 nothing mapped 1142.8 m 62.6° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 226418 nothing mapped 474.1 m 163.1° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 227254 nothing mapped 61.9 m 174.0° S Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 225392 Nerang Murwillumbah Road open 393.2 m 137.1° SE Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 226304 nothing mapped 156.4 m 130.9° SE Official spatial — evidence class
16 Road reserve 241466 nothing mapped 1392.7 m 86.7° E Official spatial — evidence class
17 Watercourse bed 241314 nothing mapped 14.1 m 12.0° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
18 Watercourse bed 241314 nothing mapped 14.1 m 12.0° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
19 Watercourse bed 242264 nothing mapped 30.6 m 23.7° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
20 Road reserve 241694 nothing mapped 176.6 m 41.5° NE Official spatial — evidence class
21 Road reserve 249598 nothing mapped 20.1 m 44.8° NE Official spatial — evidence class
22 Road reserve 241770 nothing mapped 130.2 m 49.6° NE Official spatial — evidence class
23 Road reserve 241428 nothing mapped 30.4 m 58.2° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
24 Road reserve 262632 nothing mapped 38.9 m 66.1° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
25 Road reserve 262518 nothing mapped 168.1 m 6.0° N Official spatial — evidence class
26 Watercourse bed 262290 nothing mapped 891.5 m 61.9° ENE Statutory inference — evidence class
27 Watercourse bed 263848 nothing mapped 57.6 m 16.6° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
Total 986.4 m mapped 9074.2 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 241466 and 241314 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 241314 and 242264 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 241314 and 241694 is 30.39 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 262518 and 263848 is 880.66 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 steps, but the record maps ground here

at least 5½ hours out and back

at least 2¾ hours there at least 2¾ hours back

540 m up and 565 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 565 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 986 m of this 9074 m chain — about 11% 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 1 Nerang Murwillumbah Road Official spatial — evidence class

    207 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public .

  • Leg 4 Nerang Murwillumbah Road Official spatial — evidence class

    53 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public .

  • Legs 6–7 Nerang Murwillumbah Road Official spatial — evidence class

    343 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public .

  • Leg 14 Nerang Murwillumbah Road Official spatial — evidence class

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

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 8927.2 m · height 15.0 to 250.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
540.0 m
Total descent
565.0 m
Steepest sustained
62.8% over 55.8 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
48.3 m 40.0 m
248.6 m 45.0 m
399.7 m 45.0 m
410.9 m 45.0 m
446.3 m 50.0 m
485.9 m 55.0 m
515.1 m 60.0 m
560.0 m 65.0 m
667.5 m 65.0 m
705.5 m 60.0 m
735.8 m 55.0 m
809.9 m 55.0 m
885.0 m 60.0 m
941.4 m 60.0 m
970.0 m 55.0 m
983.2 m 50.0 m
1008.0 m 50.0 m
1008.8 m 50.0 m
1013.0 m 50.0 m
1032.1 m 50.0 m
1046.8 m 50.0 m
1169.3 m 55.0 m
1221.2 m 60.0 m
1248.8 m 65.0 m
1313.9 m 70.0 m
1378.8 m 75.0 m
1391.2 m 75.0 m
1404.6 m 75.0 m
1559.6 m 80.0 m
1662.5 m 85.0 m
1700.9 m 90.0 m
1741.8 m 95.0 m
1839.5 m 95.0 m
1879.4 m 95.0 m
1950.6 m 100.0 m
1980.9 m 100.0 m
1999.5 m 95.0 m
2020.6 m 90.0 m
2036.9 m 90.0 m
2086.4 m 90.0 m
2130.3 m 90.0 m
2164.5 m 95.0 m
2195.1 m 100.0 m
2222.2 m 105.0 m
2240.9 m 110.0 m
2264.1 m 115.0 m
2276.3 m 115.0 m
2281.9 m 115.0 m
2299.5 m 120.0 m
2340.5 m 120.0 m
2431.1 m 120.0 m
2442.8 m 120.0 m
2460.0 m 115.0 m
2472.0 m 110.0 m
2498.6 m 110.0 m
2519.8 m 115.0 m
2531.1 m 120.0 m
2605.5 m 125.0 m
2630.8 m 125.0 m
2655.2 m 125.0 m
2692.9 m 130.0 m
2708.6 m 135.0 m
2723.9 m 140.0 m
2738.7 m 145.0 m
2756.6 m 150.0 m
2772.0 m 155.0 m
2810.7 m 160.0 m
2833.8 m 165.0 m
2852.7 m 170.0 m
2867.1 m 175.0 m
2882.3 m 180.0 m
2896.2 m 185.0 m
2913.6 m 190.0 m
2931.1 m 195.0 m
2950.5 m 200.0 m
2974.3 m 205.0 m
3021.7 m 205.0 m
3045.8 m 200.0 m
3061.0 m 195.0 m
3070.3 m 190.0 m
3079.9 m 185.0 m
3094.5 m 180.0 m
3108.1 m 175.0 m
3119.8 m 170.0 m
3145.6 m 170.0 m
3151.9 m 175.0 m
3159.9 m 180.0 m
3167.9 m 185.0 m
3180.1 m 190.0 m
3189.5 m 195.0 m
3200.1 m 200.0 m
3213.1 m 205.0 m
3226.4 m 210.0 m
3241.9 m 215.0 m
3260.9 m 220.0 m
3277.0 m 225.0 m
3292.5 m 230.0 m
3307.8 m 235.0 m
3323.1 m 240.0 m
3337.2 m 245.0 m
3363.7 m 250.0 m
3368.1 m 250.0 m
3388.3 m 245.0 m
3396.8 m 240.0 m
3405.0 m 235.0 m
3412.7 m 230.0 m
3421.2 m 225.0 m
3429.1 m 220.0 m
3438.1 m 215.0 m
3447.6 m 210.0 m
3454.9 m 205.0 m
3470.2 m 200.0 m
3477.9 m 195.0 m
3495.0 m 190.0 m
3506.7 m 185.0 m
3516.3 m 180.0 m
3525.2 m 175.0 m
3532.6 m 170.0 m
3540.0 m 165.0 m
3554.7 m 165.0 m
3579.4 m 165.0 m
3602.1 m 165.0 m
3618.1 m 170.0 m
3641.0 m 175.0 m
3663.5 m 180.0 m
3677.1 m 185.0 m
3687.5 m 190.0 m
3697.8 m 195.0 m
3707.1 m 200.0 m
3715.0 m 205.0 m
3729.2 m 210.0 m
3741.2 m 215.0 m
3752.0 m 220.0 m
3762.1 m 225.0 m
3772.9 m 230.0 m
3787.9 m 235.0 m
3826.5 m 235.0 m
3847.6 m 230.0 m
3866.2 m 225.0 m
3892.6 m 225.0 m
3907.8 m 230.0 m
3925.1 m 235.0 m
3982.5 m 235.0 m
3991.6 m 230.0 m
4001.9 m 225.0 m
4015.0 m 220.0 m
4028.0 m 215.0 m
4044.9 m 210.0 m
4058.8 m 205.0 m
4069.4 m 200.0 m
4078.5 m 195.0 m
4087.6 m 190.0 m
4096.4 m 185.0 m
4104.6 m 180.0 m
4114.6 m 175.0 m
4124.9 m 170.0 m
4135.4 m 165.0 m
4148.3 m 160.0 m
4162.1 m 155.0 m
4173.5 m 150.0 m
4181.9 m 145.0 m
4203.2 m 145.0 m
4218.3 m 150.0 m
4233.1 m 150.0 m
4250.9 m 150.0 m
4257.3 m 155.0 m
4264.1 m 160.0 m
4270.9 m 165.0 m
4279.1 m 170.0 m
4287.8 m 175.0 m
4298.0 m 180.0 m
4307.8 m 185.0 m
4317.2 m 190.0 m
4325.4 m 195.0 m
4334.5 m 195.0 m
4336.3 m 195.0 m
4341.4 m 200.0 m
4348.2 m 205.0 m
4358.3 m 210.0 m
4366.6 m 215.0 m
4376.3 m 220.0 m
4393.3 m 225.0 m
4431.0 m 225.0 m
4447.0 m 220.0 m
4462.8 m 215.0 m
4476.9 m 210.0 m
4490.6 m 205.0 m
4503.3 m 200.0 m
4513.6 m 195.0 m
4522.2 m 190.0 m
4531.7 m 185.0 m
4539.2 m 180.0 m
4544.7 m 175.0 m
4564.3 m 170.0 m
4575.5 m 165.0 m
4584.5 m 160.0 m
4593.3 m 155.0 m
4603.6 m 150.0 m
4613.5 m 145.0 m
4621.7 m 140.0 m
4629.8 m 135.0 m
4639.3 m 130.0 m
4648.8 m 125.0 m
4656.5 m 120.0 m
4663.1 m 115.0 m
4669.3 m 110.0 m
4673.4 m 110.0 m
4701.7 m 115.0 m
4732.4 m 120.0 m
4749.8 m 120.0 m
4771.3 m 115.0 m
4780.6 m 115.0 m
4791.2 m 120.0 m
4803.9 m 125.0 m
4820.1 m 130.0 m
4848.3 m 135.0 m
4863.8 m 140.0 m
4877.5 m 145.0 m
4912.2 m 150.0 m
4946.1 m 150.0 m
4957.4 m 145.0 m
4979.9 m 140.0 m
4988.4 m 135.0 m
4998.8 m 130.0 m
5037.1 m 125.0 m
5068.1 m 120.0 m
5082.7 m 120.0 m
5101.9 m 125.0 m
5132.2 m 130.0 m
5150.9 m 130.0 m
5185.8 m 125.0 m
5210.5 m 120.0 m
5259.8 m 120.0 m
5289.5 m 120.0 m
5367.9 m 115.0 m
5404.6 m 110.0 m
5425.4 m 105.0 m
5445.9 m 100.0 m
5467.3 m 95.0 m
5485.6 m 90.0 m
5531.4 m 85.0 m
5703.6 m 80.0 m
5823.0 m 75.0 m
5895.8 m 70.0 m
5918.0 m 65.0 m
6044.4 m 65.0 m
6046.4 m 65.0 m
6050.7 m 65.0 m
6202.3 m 65.0 m
6262.0 m 60.0 m
6302.6 m 55.0 m
6340.7 m 50.0 m
6379.1 m 45.0 m
6410.3 m 40.0 m
6446.1 m 35.0 m
6565.3 m 30.0 m
6619.3 m 30.0 m
6669.2 m 35.0 m
6733.1 m 35.0 m
6782.2 m 30.0 m
6841.6 m 25.0 m
6863.5 m 20.0 m
6869.7 m 20.0 m
6878.7 m 20.0 m
6937.4 m 20.0 m
7346.2 m 25.0 m
7479.9 m 25.0 m
7551.0 m 25.0 m
7579.1 m 30.0 m
7613.8 m 35.0 m
7616.7 m 35.0 m
7630.6 m 35.0 m
7643.5 m 40.0 m
7680.5 m 40.0 m
7741.2 m 35.0 m
7798.7 m 30.0 m
7978.4 m 25.0 m
8088.2 m 20.0 m
8118.9 m 15.0 m
8160.1 m 15.0 m
8174.7 m 20.0 m
8290.8 m 25.0 m
8334.9 m 25.0 m
8416.7 m 25.0 m
8624.5 m 30.0 m
8696.2 m 30.0 m
8776.4 m 25.0 m
8817.7 m 20.0 m
8847.8 m 20.0 m
8880.2 m 20.0 m
8927.2 m 15.0 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: 27 legs from Nerang Murwillumbah Road, 9074.2 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 the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 263696, 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: 283646 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    237.1 m at 254.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 283646 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 255032 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    235.4 m at 251.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 255032 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 266090 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    466.1 m at 229.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 266090 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 266128 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    53.0 m at 226.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 266128 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 266242 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    92.7 m at 227.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 266242 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 258072 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    85.7 m at 239.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 258072 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 254994 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    256.9 m at 227.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 254994 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 230256 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    898.1 m at 225.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 230256 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 226228 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    248.8 m at 230.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 226228 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 225430 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1307.1 m at 231.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 225430 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 227140 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1142.8 m at 62.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 227140 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 226418 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    474.1 m at 163.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 226418 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 227254 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    61.9 m at 174.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 227254 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 225392 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    393.2 m at 137.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 225392 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 226304 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    156.4 m at 130.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 226304 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 241466 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1392.7 m at 86.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 241466 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 241314 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    14.1 m at 12.0°. 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 241314 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 18: 241314 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    14.1 m at 12.0°. 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 241314 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 19: 242264 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    30.6 m at 23.7°. 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 242264 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 20: 241694 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    176.6 m at 41.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 241694 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 21: 249598 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.1 m at 44.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 249598 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 22: 241770 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    130.2 m at 49.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 241770 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 23: 241428 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    30.4 m at 58.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 241428 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 24: 262632 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    38.9 m at 66.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 262632 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 25: 262518 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    168.1 m at 6.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 262518 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 26: 262290 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    891.5 m at 61.9°. 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 262290 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 27: 263848 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    57.6 m at 16.6°. 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 263848 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
Bridge Creek
Lot on plan
263696
Coordinates
-28.01758, 153.30918 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse