Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast · Darlington Range

Darlington Range from Upper Ormeau Road

entry is a road 310 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class darlington-range--from-upper-ormeau-road

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

A lawful approach from Upper Ormeau 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 -27.82966, 153.22416

That is Upper Ormeau Road, where the walk below begins — 3.5 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.

-27.82966, 153.22416

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 2544646 nothing mapped 418.0 m 25.0° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Watercourse bed 2551448 nothing mapped 618.9 m 351.8° N Statutory inference — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 2550992 nothing mapped 384.7 m 335.0° NNW Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Road reserve 2542936 nothing mapped 1124.8 m 270.6° W Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 2543088 nothing mapped 911.9 m 165.9° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 3458.3 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 2544646 and 2550992 is 610.51 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2551448 and 2542936 is 376.11 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

at least 2¼ hours out and back

at least 1¼ hours there at least 1 hour back

310 m up and 105 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 105 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

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 3454.4 m · height 55.0 to 290.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
310.0 m
Total descent
105.0 m
Steepest sustained
53.0% over 56.6 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
8.0 m 85.0 m
33.6 m 90.0 m
49.5 m 95.0 m
93.0 m 95.0 m
104.2 m 90.0 m
147.7 m 85.0 m
168.3 m 80.0 m
205.8 m 80.0 m
235.5 m 80.0 m
267.9 m 80.0 m
297.7 m 80.0 m
368.7 m 75.0 m
385.9 m 70.0 m
441.5 m 70.0 m
467.5 m 70.0 m
501.3 m 70.0 m
559.1 m 70.0 m
715.3 m 70.0 m
726.7 m 75.0 m
748.1 m 75.0 m
775.2 m 70.0 m
838.9 m 65.0 m
884.8 m 60.0 m
896.7 m 60.0 m
1017.4 m 60.0 m
1051.1 m 60.0 m
1095.5 m 65.0 m
1215.4 m 70.0 m
1231.8 m 70.0 m
1260.4 m 65.0 m
1273.3 m 60.0 m
1286.8 m 55.0 m
1483.5 m 55.0 m
1575.8 m 60.0 m
1635.4 m 65.0 m
1689.3 m 70.0 m
1722.1 m 75.0 m
1776.1 m 80.0 m
1783.0 m 80.0 m
1792.1 m 80.0 m
1860.5 m 85.0 m
1899.4 m 90.0 m
1953.9 m 95.0 m
2014.1 m 95.0 m
2033.4 m 90.0 m
2112.0 m 90.0 m
2117.5 m 95.0 m
2123.7 m 100.0 m
2132.4 m 105.0 m
2144.4 m 110.0 m
2156.4 m 115.0 m
2168.6 m 120.0 m
2180.0 m 125.0 m
2190.8 m 130.0 m
2203.8 m 135.0 m
2222.8 m 140.0 m
2240.2 m 145.0 m
2270.3 m 150.0 m
2291.0 m 155.0 m
2312.8 m 160.0 m
2335.9 m 165.0 m
2354.3 m 170.0 m
2383.3 m 175.0 m
2407.7 m 180.0 m
2411.2 m 180.0 m
2412.4 m 180.0 m
2442.3 m 180.0 m
2480.4 m 175.0 m
2480.9 m 175.0 m
2501.0 m 180.0 m
2550.1 m 185.0 m
2577.1 m 190.0 m
2607.8 m 195.0 m
2631.6 m 200.0 m
2685.2 m 200.0 m
2719.0 m 195.0 m
2750.3 m 190.0 m
2776.5 m 185.0 m
2794.7 m 180.0 m
2810.1 m 175.0 m
2824.2 m 170.0 m
2835.8 m 165.0 m
2855.7 m 160.0 m
2868.5 m 160.0 m
2881.9 m 165.0 m
2896.7 m 170.0 m
2910.4 m 175.0 m
2923.0 m 180.0 m
2945.5 m 185.0 m
2984.5 m 190.0 m
3051.4 m 195.0 m
3082.4 m 200.0 m
3110.3 m 205.0 m
3142.0 m 210.0 m
3158.1 m 215.0 m
3173.5 m 220.0 m
3186.7 m 225.0 m
3201.3 m 230.0 m
3217.8 m 235.0 m
3233.4 m 240.0 m
3248.4 m 245.0 m
3281.6 m 250.0 m
3309.2 m 255.0 m
3338.4 m 260.0 m
3363.2 m 265.0 m
3382.1 m 270.0 m
3395.3 m 275.0 m
3408.5 m 280.0 m
3422.9 m 285.0 m
3454.4 m 290.0 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: 5 legs from Upper Ormeau Road, 3458.3 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 the parcel below

    Parcel not resolved, recorded tenure "unresolved". 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: 2544646 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    418.0 m at 25.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2544646 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 2551448 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    618.9 m at 351.8°. 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 2551448 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 3: 2550992 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    384.7 m at 335.0°. 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 2550992 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 2542936 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1124.8 m at 270.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2542936 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 2543088 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    911.9 m at 165.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2543088 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
Darlington Range
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-27.82545, 153.21424 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
range