Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast · Kuralboo Creek

Kuralboo Creek from Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk)

entry is a track 70 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class kuralboo-creek--from-purling-brook-falls-circuit-great-walk

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

A lawful approach from Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk).

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 -28.18578, 153.26442

That is Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk), where the walk below begins — 1.9 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.

-28.18578, 153.26442

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 Track Steps nothing mapped 10.1 m 325.8° NW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Track Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) nothing mapped 124.6 m 115.4° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
3 Track Steps nothing mapped 8.1 m 152.6° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
4 Track Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) nothing mapped 835.7 m 121.1° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
5 Track Warringa Pool Track (Great Walk) nothing mapped 940.5 m 331.8° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1919.0 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 Every step ends at something you can check

at least 1¼ hours out and back

at least half an hour there at least three quarters of an hour back

70 m up and 230 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 230 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

The way passes this place Official spatial — evidence class

Steps passes 32 m from the recorded point. There is 10 m of climb or drop between the two, read at a 5.0 m contour interval. The contours give the height between them and never which way round it is, so this is a separation and not a descent to plan.

The way comes close enough to be a way to this place without the record establishing that it ends at it. A register gives a feature one coordinate and a feature is not a point, so the two measurements above are the whole of the claim: how far off the way passes, and what height separates the two. Nothing here says the last of that gap can be crossed. The walk below runs along the surveyed way and ends on it. Leaving it to close the rest of the gap is not something any record here describes, and this page does not suggest it.

  1. Follow Steps for 138 m, setting off ESE (105°), to the junction with Steps.

    Back: 285° along Steps, 138 m from the start.

  2. Follow Steps for 844 m, setting off ESE (122°), to the junction with Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk).

    Back: 302° along Steps, 982 m from the start.

  3. Follow Steps for 879 m, setting off NNW (328°), to where it crosses Kuralboo Creek.

    Back: 148° along Steps, 1860 m from the start.

  4. Follow Steps for 62 m, setting off N (7°), to arrive.

    Back: 187° along Steps, 1923 m from the start.

1923 m in total, along the way the managing authority publishes. Every step above ends at something the records let you check on the ground. Bearings are true, not magnetic: they match a phone compass with no conversion. In this part of Queensland a magnetic bezel reads about 11° east of them, so an analogue compass needs that taken off before you set it.

What each step ends at, and why Official spatial — evidence class
junction
A junction with another published way. Unmissable on the ground, and the place a wrong turn happens.
watercourse
A named watercourse crossing, from the official watercourse layer.
destination
The place itself, which is always where the last step ends.

A cadastral parcel boundary is never one of them. It is invisible on the ground, so a step that ended at one could never be checked — however convenient it looks in the data.

How much climbing Read off the published contour layer

Distance along the route, 0 to 1898.5 m · height 400.0 to 565.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
70.0 m
Total descent
230.0 m
Steepest sustained
33.2% over 60.2 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
5.3 m 565.0 m
24.7 m 560.0 m
69.3 m 555.0 m
98.0 m 550.0 m
109.0 m 545.0 m
167.3 m 540.0 m
197.5 m 535.0 m
257.9 m 530.0 m
312.4 m 525.0 m
321.1 m 520.0 m
329.1 m 515.0 m
337.1 m 510.0 m
338.4 m 510.0 m
349.0 m 515.0 m
368.7 m 515.0 m
378.9 m 510.0 m
396.8 m 510.0 m
423.5 m 515.0 m
445.8 m 520.0 m
472.7 m 520.0 m
480.3 m 515.0 m
490.2 m 510.0 m
498.3 m 505.0 m
503.5 m 505.0 m
570.8 m 510.0 m
580.3 m 510.0 m
663.6 m 505.0 m
729.0 m 500.0 m
743.5 m 495.0 m
796.5 m 490.0 m
802.9 m 485.0 m
813.4 m 480.0 m
836.3 m 475.0 m
856.7 m 470.0 m
865.0 m 470.0 m
874.3 m 475.0 m
887.5 m 480.0 m
898.9 m 480.0 m
907.8 m 475.0 m
917.2 m 470.0 m
925.3 m 465.0 m
944.1 m 465.0 m
982.3 m 465.0 m
987.3 m 460.0 m
989.5 m 455.0 m
991.1 m 450.0 m
1010.6 m 445.0 m
1055.5 m 445.0 m
1057.3 m 445.0 m
1074.2 m 440.0 m
1082.3 m 435.0 m
1098.8 m 435.0 m
1111.6 m 440.0 m
1165.3 m 445.0 m
1173.0 m 450.0 m
1208.9 m 450.0 m
1216.3 m 450.0 m
1230.9 m 455.0 m
1254.8 m 460.0 m
1259.2 m 460.0 m
1274.3 m 455.0 m
1298.4 m 450.0 m
1306.3 m 450.0 m
1315.1 m 450.0 m
1317.3 m 450.0 m
1318.1 m 450.0 m
1359.7 m 450.0 m
1393.5 m 450.0 m
1425.3 m 445.0 m
1480.4 m 440.0 m
1499.5 m 435.0 m
1510.8 m 430.0 m
1552.0 m 425.0 m
1575.0 m 420.0 m
1579.5 m 420.0 m
1604.6 m 425.0 m
1637.6 m 430.0 m
1637.8 m 430.0 m
1723.0 m 425.0 m
1743.1 m 420.0 m
1781.1 m 415.0 m
1819.0 m 410.0 m
1836.2 m 405.0 m
1848.0 m 400.0 m
1860.4 m 400.0 m
1894.6 m 405.0 m
1898.5 m 405.0 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 Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk), 1919.0 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 Springbrook National Park Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 5AP19371, 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: Steps carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    10.1 m at 325.8°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Steps Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    124.6 m at 115.4°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) Grade official_spatial

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

    8.1 m at 152.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Steps Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    835.7 m at 121.1°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: Warringa Pool Track (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    940.5 m at 331.8°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Warringa Pool Track (Great Walk) Grade official_spatial

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Kuralboo Creek, Springbrook National Park
Lot on plan
5AP19371
Coordinates
-28.18483, 153.26848 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse