Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast · Daves Creek

Daves Creek from formed paved track off Daves Creek Road

entry is a track chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class daves-creek--from-formed-paved-track-off-daves-creek-road-3

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

A lawful approach from formed paved track off Daves Creek Road.

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 -28.22209, 153.23200

That is formed paved track off Daves Creek Road, where the walk below begins — 166 m 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.

-28.22209, 153.23200

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 538018 an unnamed formed paved open 166.0 m 11.5° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
Total 166.0 m mapped 166.0 m Chain confidence Official spatial — 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.

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

under a quarter hour out and back

at least under a quarter hour there at least under a quarter hour back

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track. The climb on this route could not be measured, so the figure is flat-ground time and the real walk is longer.

Naismith's rule, and what it does not account for

What is mapped along this chain

A managing authority has surveyed a way along 166 m of this 166 m chain — about 100% 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 an unnamed formed paved Official spatial — evidence class

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

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 No contour cover along this line

No profile is published for this route. The contour layer does not cross its line often enough to describe a climb, and a profile drawn from anything else would be a guess about the ground.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 1 legs from formed paved track off Daves Creek Road, 166.0 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: 538018 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    166.0 m at 11.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 538018 Grade official_spatial

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Daves Creek
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-28.22063, 153.23234 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse