Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast · Moffat Crossing

Moffat Crossing from Mount Nimmel Break

entry is a road 235 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class moffat-crossing--from-mount-nimmel-break-2

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

A lawful approach from Mount Nimmel Break, 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 -28.16838, 153.29763

That is Mount Nimmel Break, where the walk below begins — 3.2 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.

-28.16838, 153.29763

Four-wheel-drive only The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as four-wheel-drive. A vehicle that gets most of the way along a road like this can still be stopped by the last of it.

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 551850 nothing mapped 1385.7 m 186.9° S Official spatial — evidence class
2 Protected estate 5AP19371 nothing mapped 1108.8 m 67.5° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 552192 nothing mapped 486.0 m 9.1° N Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Road reserve 551622 Austinville Road open 177.2 m 33.7° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
Total 177.2 m mapped 3157.7 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 5AP19371 and 551622 is 10.24 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

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

at least 2½ hours out and back

at least 1 hour there at least 1½ hours back

235 m up and 550 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 550 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 177 m of this 3158 m chain — about 6% 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 4 Austinville Road Official spatial — evidence class

    177 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 3156.3 m · height 110.0 to 455.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
235.0 m
Total descent
550.0 m
Steepest sustained
75.2% over 66.5 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
35.0 m 425.0 m
41.3 m 420.0 m
45.1 m 415.0 m
47.4 m 410.0 m
50.2 m 405.0 m
53.1 m 400.0 m
56.1 m 395.0 m
65.0 m 390.0 m
90.5 m 385.0 m
113.7 m 380.0 m
132.3 m 375.0 m
143.1 m 370.0 m
156.6 m 370.0 m
163.4 m 375.0 m
170.9 m 380.0 m
207.6 m 380.0 m
218.7 m 380.0 m
227.9 m 385.0 m
251.4 m 390.0 m
291.0 m 390.0 m
302.2 m 390.0 m
348.4 m 390.0 m
354.5 m 390.0 m
375.2 m 395.0 m
393.6 m 400.0 m
428.9 m 405.0 m
452.7 m 405.0 m
460.7 m 400.0 m
466.0 m 395.0 m
471.0 m 390.0 m
479.1 m 385.0 m
487.4 m 380.0 m
496.5 m 375.0 m
504.1 m 370.0 m
509.8 m 365.0 m
515.2 m 360.0 m
520.8 m 355.0 m
527.2 m 350.0 m
562.6 m 345.0 m
577.2 m 340.0 m
599.5 m 335.0 m
617.2 m 330.0 m
627.2 m 325.0 m
640.3 m 320.0 m
652.4 m 315.0 m
660.8 m 310.0 m
667.9 m 305.0 m
672.4 m 300.0 m
676.7 m 295.0 m
682.1 m 290.0 m
705.4 m 290.0 m
711.9 m 295.0 m
734.2 m 300.0 m
746.7 m 305.0 m
757.0 m 310.0 m
776.7 m 315.0 m
783.0 m 320.0 m
791.2 m 325.0 m
800.6 m 330.0 m
813.7 m 335.0 m
828.7 m 340.0 m
844.0 m 345.0 m
856.0 m 350.0 m
865.4 m 355.0 m
877.4 m 360.0 m
890.3 m 365.0 m
903.6 m 370.0 m
916.1 m 375.0 m
929.5 m 380.0 m
956.3 m 385.0 m
977.7 m 390.0 m
1001.9 m 395.0 m
1028.9 m 400.0 m
1060.3 m 405.0 m
1094.3 m 410.0 m
1115.1 m 415.0 m
1137.1 m 420.0 m
1159.9 m 425.0 m
1211.5 m 430.0 m
1220.2 m 435.0 m
1235.3 m 440.0 m
1244.0 m 440.0 m
1258.1 m 435.0 m
1272.6 m 430.0 m
1281.7 m 430.0 m
1314.9 m 435.0 m
1325.8 m 440.0 m
1337.1 m 445.0 m
1350.0 m 450.0 m
1368.8 m 455.0 m
1392.1 m 455.0 m
1405.4 m 450.0 m
1417.3 m 445.0 m
1428.5 m 440.0 m
1439.3 m 435.0 m
1449.7 m 430.0 m
1459.3 m 425.0 m
1469.2 m 420.0 m
1479.2 m 415.0 m
1489.2 m 410.0 m
1500.0 m 405.0 m
1509.8 m 400.0 m
1519.4 m 395.0 m
1529.5 m 390.0 m
1541.7 m 385.0 m
1552.3 m 380.0 m
1565.8 m 375.0 m
1578.6 m 370.0 m
1591.8 m 365.0 m
1604.6 m 360.0 m
1618.6 m 355.0 m
1635.6 m 350.0 m
1649.2 m 345.0 m
1661.9 m 340.0 m
1672.7 m 335.0 m
1682.4 m 330.0 m
1692.7 m 325.0 m
1702.8 m 320.0 m
1713.7 m 315.0 m
1723.9 m 310.0 m
1733.6 m 305.0 m
1743.8 m 300.0 m
1753.2 m 295.0 m
1763.8 m 290.0 m
1774.0 m 285.0 m
1784.1 m 280.0 m
1821.0 m 275.0 m
1831.5 m 270.0 m
1840.2 m 265.0 m
1851.6 m 260.0 m
1863.0 m 255.0 m
1890.2 m 250.0 m
1910.2 m 245.0 m
1932.2 m 240.0 m
1959.6 m 235.0 m
1993.2 m 235.0 m
2016.9 m 240.0 m
2061.4 m 240.0 m
2074.7 m 235.0 m
2089.2 m 230.0 m
2104.6 m 225.0 m
2119.4 m 220.0 m
2131.2 m 215.0 m
2143.4 m 210.0 m
2155.2 m 205.0 m
2166.6 m 200.0 m
2179.6 m 195.0 m
2193.1 m 190.0 m
2208.2 m 185.0 m
2225.9 m 180.0 m
2247.3 m 175.0 m
2283.6 m 170.0 m
2361.9 m 165.0 m
2380.2 m 160.0 m
2393.3 m 155.0 m
2406.2 m 150.0 m
2424.8 m 145.0 m
2465.2 m 140.0 m
2481.1 m 135.0 m
2489.4 m 130.0 m
2496.9 m 125.0 m
2508.1 m 120.0 m
2509.4 m 120.0 m
2511.6 m 120.0 m
2517.2 m 120.0 m
2528.7 m 125.0 m
2572.2 m 125.0 m
2606.6 m 120.0 m
2611.0 m 120.0 m
2627.0 m 125.0 m
2680.6 m 125.0 m
2693.1 m 120.0 m
2733.8 m 120.0 m
2744.4 m 125.0 m
2753.3 m 130.0 m
2792.8 m 130.0 m
2807.6 m 125.0 m
2817.7 m 125.0 m
2836.3 m 125.0 m
2852.8 m 125.0 m
2866.7 m 125.0 m
2884.8 m 120.0 m
2917.5 m 115.0 m
2944.6 m 110.0 m
3002.9 m 110.0 m
3156.3 m 110.0 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: 4 legs from Mount Nimmel Break, 3157.7 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: 551850 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1385.7 m at 186.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 551850 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 5AP19371 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1108.8 m at 67.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 5AP19371 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 552192 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    486.0 m at 9.1°. 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 552192 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 551622 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    177.2 m at 33.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 551622 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
Moffat Crossing
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-28.17131, 153.30816 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
ford