Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast · Hervey Creek

Hervey Creek from New Norwell Road

entry is a road 0 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class hervey-creek--from-new-norwell-road

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

A lawful approach from New Norwell 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 -27.77104, 153.30151

That is New Norwell Road, where the walk below begins — 23.4 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.

-27.77104, 153.30151

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 397234 nothing mapped 1266.8 m 29.2° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 399096 nothing mapped 781.2 m 10.8° N Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 398260 nothing mapped 20.1 m 8.7° N Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 397614 nothing mapped 353.7 m 42.7° NE Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 398032 nothing mapped 513.1 m 11.3° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 325376 nothing mapped 350.3 m 95.8° E Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 326858 nothing mapped 272.3 m 23.6° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 328606 nothing mapped 30.2 m 9.1° N Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 326250 nothing mapped 431.4 m 335.6° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 323856 nothing mapped 449.3 m 87.4° E Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 325642 nothing mapped 20.1 m 99.3° E Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 327086 nothing mapped 486.5 m 99.0° E Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 329708 nothing mapped 191.0 m 13.7° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 328226 nothing mapped 191.0 m 184.7° S Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 328872 nothing mapped 1048.9 m 65.2° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
16 Road reserve 334078 nothing mapped 672.4 m 75.5° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
17 Road reserve 334268 nothing mapped 421.0 m 109.7° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
18 Road reserve 334344 nothing mapped 676.5 m 188.7° S Official spatial — evidence class
19 Road reserve 334306 nothing mapped 982.7 m 243.1° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
20 Road reserve 484596 nothing mapped 198.3 m 189.0° S Official spatial — evidence class
21 Road reserve 484634 nothing mapped 1204.5 m 144.3° SE Official spatial — evidence class
22 Road reserve 483950 nothing mapped 311.7 m 149.2° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
23 Watercourse bed 483798 nothing mapped 8.4 m 135.5° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
24 Watercourse bed 484216 nothing mapped 8.4 m 135.5° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
25 Watercourse bed 486078 nothing mapped 11.6 m 136.2° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
26 Road reserve 487370 nothing mapped 957.4 m 180.5° S Official spatial — evidence class
27 Road reserve 487408 an unnamed formed sealed open 508.2 m 231.5° SW Official spatial — evidence class
28 Road reserve 485888 an unnamed formed sealed open 78.6 m 224.3° SW Official spatial — evidence class
29 Road reserve 487826 an unnamed formed sealed open 21.1 m 208.5° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
30 Road reserve 487446 an unnamed formed sealed open 384.4 m 205.1° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
31 Road reserve 486572 nothing mapped 20.2 m 195.9° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
32 Road reserve 487484 nothing mapped 584.6 m 194.8° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
33 Road reserve 488434 nothing mapped 128.4 m 191.3° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
34 Road reserve 488282 nothing mapped 365.5 m 103.4° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
35 Road reserve 490904 nothing mapped 350.8 m 102.6° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
36 Road reserve 490942 nothing mapped 1197.2 m 190.2° S Official spatial — evidence class
37 Road reserve 489764 nothing mapped 30.4 m 188.9° S Official spatial — evidence class
38 Road reserve 490980 nothing mapped 863.4 m 188.9° S Official spatial — evidence class
39 Watercourse bed 490752 nothing mapped 1738.5 m 259.1° W Statutory inference — evidence class
40 Watercourse bed 491664 nothing mapped 1210.8 m 322.0° NW Statutory inference — evidence class
41 Watercourse bed 491626 nothing mapped 52.2 m 357.4° N Statutory inference — evidence class
42 Watercourse bed 402744 nothing mapped 938.7 m 4.1° N Statutory inference — evidence class
43 Watercourse bed 402668 nothing mapped 1808.6 m 262.7° W Statutory inference — evidence class
44 Watercourse bed 401224 nothing mapped 1084.6 m 327.5° NNW Statutory inference — evidence class
45 Watercourse bed 401490 nothing mapped 175.3 m 313.6° NW Statutory inference — evidence class
Total 962.7 m mapped 23400.3 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 483950 and 484216 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 483798 and 486078 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 484216 and 487370 is 10.59 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 490980 and 491664 is 1737.33 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 490752 and 491626 is 1197.75 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 491664 and 402744 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 491626 and 402668 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 402744 and 401224 is 1795.44 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 402668 and 401490 is 1084.19 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 9½ hours out and back

at least 4¾ hours there at least 4¾ hours back

0 m up and 0 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 0 m.

This walk is 9½ hours out and back at a minimum, past the 8 hours this site plans a day walk against. It is published in full and it is not a day walk: plan it as an overnight trip, or turn around at a time you choose before you set off rather than at the fall.

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 963 m of this 23400 m chain — about 4% 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.

  • Legs 27–30 an unnamed formed sealed Official spatial — evidence class

    963 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 Read off the published contour layer

Distance along the route, 0 to 13164.3 m · height 5.0 to 5.0 m Read off an unstated interval along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
0.0 m
Total descent
0.0 m
Steepest sustained
0.0% over 50.5 m
Contour interval
not stated by the layer
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
12460.4 m 5.0 m
12580.8 m 5.0 m
12585.9 m 5.0 m
12600.0 m 5.0 m
12728.6 m 5.0 m
12968.5 m 5.0 m
12982.4 m 5.0 m
12991.7 m 5.0 m
12998.0 m 5.0 m
13005.7 m 5.0 m
13017.8 m 5.0 m
13020.9 m 5.0 m
13024.1 m 5.0 m
13026.4 m 5.0 m
13039.7 m 5.0 m
13064.4 m 5.0 m
13068.3 m 5.0 m
13164.3 m 5.0 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 an unstated interval cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 45 legs from New Norwell Road, 23400.3 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 Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 401490, 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: 397234 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1266.8 m at 29.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 397234 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 399096 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    781.2 m at 10.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 399096 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 398260 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.1 m at 8.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 398260 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 397614 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    353.7 m at 42.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 397614 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 398032 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    513.1 m at 11.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 398032 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 325376 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    350.3 m at 95.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 325376 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 326858 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    272.3 m at 23.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 326858 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 328606 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    30.2 m at 9.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 328606 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 326250 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    431.4 m at 335.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 326250 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 323856 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    449.3 m at 87.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 323856 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 325642 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.1 m at 99.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 325642 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 327086 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    486.5 m at 99.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 327086 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 329708 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    191.0 m at 13.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 329708 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 328226 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    191.0 m at 184.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 328226 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 328872 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1048.9 m at 65.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 328872 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 334078 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    672.4 m at 75.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 334078 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 334268 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    421.0 m at 109.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 334268 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 18: 334344 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    676.5 m at 188.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 334344 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 19: 334306 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    982.7 m at 243.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 334306 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 20: 484596 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    198.3 m at 189.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 484596 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 21: 484634 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1204.5 m at 144.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 484634 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 22: 483950 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    311.7 m at 149.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 483950 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 23: 483798 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    8.4 m at 135.5°. 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 483798 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 24: 484216 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    8.4 m at 135.5°. 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 484216 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 25: 486078 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    11.6 m at 136.2°. 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 486078 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 26: 487370 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    957.4 m at 180.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 487370 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 27: 487408 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

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

    Leg reference 487408 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 28: 485888 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    78.6 m at 224.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 485888 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 29: 487826 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    21.1 m at 208.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 487826 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 30: 487446 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    384.4 m at 205.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 487446 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 31: 486572 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.2 m at 195.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 486572 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 32: 487484 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    584.6 m at 194.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 487484 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 33: 488434 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    128.4 m at 191.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 488434 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 34: 488282 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    365.5 m at 103.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 488282 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 35: 490904 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    350.8 m at 102.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 490904 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 36: 490942 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1197.2 m at 190.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 490942 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 37: 489764 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    30.4 m at 188.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 489764 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 38: 490980 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    863.4 m at 188.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 490980 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 39: 490752 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1738.5 m at 259.1°. 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 490752 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 40: 491664 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1210.8 m at 322.0°. 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 491664 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 41: 491626 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    52.2 m at 357.4°. 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 491626 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 42: 402744 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    938.7 m at 4.1°. 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 402744 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 43: 402668 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1808.6 m at 262.7°. 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 402668 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 44: 401224 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1084.6 m at 327.5°. 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 401224 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 45: 401490 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    175.3 m at 313.6°. 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 401490 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
Hervey Creek
Lot on plan
401490
Coordinates
-27.78087, 153.29020 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse