Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast Official spatial — evidence class · Gold Coast · QLD

Oaky Creek

Lawful route — caveats lawful, with something that needs saying first

Gazetted name -27.85694, 153.34332 watercourse

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

Public land. No published track reaches it — the lawful ground to it is a chain of parcels.

Being at this point is lawful on the records below. Getting there is a separate question, answered route by route — and each route carries its own verdict and its own caveats.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A watercourse — the channel a creek or river runs in, named at one coordinate along a length that may run for kilometres. Whether there is water in it is not recorded, and neither is whether its bed may be walked — that is a question about the land the channel crosses, answered on this site by the tenure chain rather than by the name.

Oaky Creek sits on Oaky Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 12.3 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every protected-area estate in the snapshot.

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is unconsolidated sediment, mapped as Qhct/sm-SEQ (Qhct/sm) , holocene in age. The survey describes it as: Sand and mud: tidal flats covered with salt marsh (boundaries poorly defined - grades into surrounding mangrove swamp) Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 100% — Mangrove shrubland to low closed forest on marine clay plains and estuaries 12.1.3 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class

On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "Oaky Creek" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Watercourse bed, recorded as "Watercourse". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 186880 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Gold Coast, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot.
Watercourse Oaky Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 12.3 m away. Official spatial — evidence class
Feature Recorded as a watercourse in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Oaky Creek and the starts of the 6 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

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.

Is there a track to it No published way within range

No vetted way the managing authority publishes comes within range of this point. That is a fact about the access record, not about the ground: an unmapped pad may well exist, and this site will not invent one on the strength of that.

Approaches — one page each 6 published of 169 computed

169 ways in were computed and 6 are published here. The rest either reach the same ground from a few hundred metres away — the same drive and the same walk — or reach no lawful chain at all, which is only worth saying when nothing else does.

Oaky Creek from Beattie Road

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class oaky-creek-25053--from-beattie-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1826.7 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Oaky Creek from Coomera Connector

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class oaky-creek-25053--from-coomera-connector
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1391.8 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Oaky Creek from Foxwell Road

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class oaky-creek-25053--from-foxwell-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
2622.3 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Oaky Creek from Oxenford Southport Road

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class oaky-creek-25053--from-oxenford-southport-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
5009.0 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Oaky Creek from Shipper Drive

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class oaky-creek-25053--from-shipper-drive
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
670.7 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Oaky Creek from Tallawood Road

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class oaky-creek-25053--from-tallawood-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
2186.9 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Danggan Balun (Five Rivers) People — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. Official spatial — evidence class

A cultural heritage party boundary and a native title claim are different legal things. This page never conflates them, and it publishes neither as a permission.

All land and waters in Queensland carry a duty of care under s.23 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) — including here. Cultural heritage site locations are restricted by law (ss.38–46), deliberately, for site protection. This site holds party boundaries only and will never republish site locations. Check the public register and, where in doubt, seek guidance from the Aboriginal party for the area.

Searching a register does not of itself satisfy the duty of care.

Rules here — derived from tenure no estate designation resolved

Conduct rules follow from tenure and the legislation that governs it. Nothing specific is inferred here, which means you should read the signs, not that no rules apply.

Statutes relied on: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld) and its regulations for protected estate; Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 for watercourse beds; Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) ss.23 and 38–46 for the duty of care and for why site locations are never republished here.

If something goes wrong

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Location
Oaky Creek
Lot on plan
186880
Coordinates
-27.85694, 153.34332 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse