Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast · Point Danger

Point Danger from Chalk Street

entry is a road 31 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class point-danger--from-chalk-street

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

A lawful approach from Chalk Street, 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 -28.16904, 153.54120

That is Chalk Street, where the walk below begins — 3.0 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.

-28.16904, 153.54120

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 331901 nothing mapped 107.9 m 263.2° W Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 331939 nothing mapped 29.1 m 277.1° W Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 332433 nothing mapped 24.2 m 10.1° N Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 1734201 nothing mapped 79.3 m 302.5° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 1734239 nothing mapped 20.2 m 280.0° W Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 1734315 nothing mapped 227.1 m 272.5° W Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 332509 nothing mapped 3.7 m 280.1° W Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 1734391 nothing mapped 118.0 m 294.9° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 338285 nothing mapped 105.2 m 353.5° N Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 336347 nothing mapped 15.1 m 8.1° N Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 336233 nothing mapped 225.7 m 273.0° W Official spatial — evidence class
12 Watercourse bed 2450045 nothing mapped 480.4 m 55.0° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
13 Watercourse bed 2450083 nothing mapped 380.3 m 81.2° E Statutory inference — evidence class
14 Watercourse bed 2450007 nothing mapped 651.1 m 77.4° ENE Statutory inference — evidence class
15 Watercourse bed 2450197 nothing mapped 272.8 m 77.1° ENE Statutory inference — evidence class
16 Watercourse bed 2450121 nothing mapped 290.1 m 149.1° SSE Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 3030.2 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 336233 and 2450083 is 23.46 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2450045 and 2450007 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2450083 and 2450197 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2450007 and 2450121 is 0.00 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 published way to follow

at least 1½ hours out and back

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

31 m up and 36 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 36 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

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 3009.1 m · height 0.0 to 26.0 m Read off 1.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
31.0 m
Total descent
36.0 m
Steepest sustained
35.8% over 61.5 m
Contour interval
1.0 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
23.5 m 5.0 m
26.6 m 6.0 m
476.9 m 5.0 m
486.7 m 5.0 m
493.4 m 5.0 m
499.9 m 5.0 m
518.1 m 5.0 m
519.9 m 5.0 m
548.8 m 5.0 m
554.6 m 5.0 m
653.0 m 5.0 m
693.6 m 6.0 m
738.0 m 8.0 m
757.0 m 10.0 m
762.5 m 10.0 m
774.6 m 12.0 m
789.4 m 14.0 m
791.2 m 15.0 m
799.9 m 16.0 m
809.4 m 18.0 m
815.8 m 20.0 m
819.0 m 20.0 m
827.0 m 22.0 m
842.2 m 25.0 m
842.8 m 24.0 m
844.2 m 26.0 m
884.4 m 26.0 m
886.9 m 25.0 m
888.7 m 24.0 m
893.0 m 22.0 m
897.0 m 20.0 m
899.1 m 20.0 m
904.3 m 20.0 m
905.1 m 18.0 m
909.9 m 16.0 m
911.5 m 20.0 m
913.5 m 14.0 m
915.2 m 15.0 m
916.7 m 12.0 m
919.4 m 10.0 m
920.4 m 10.0 m
922.5 m 8.0 m
924.8 m 6.0 m
927.9 m 5.0 m
945.9 m 4.0 m
978.4 m 4.0 m
1003.8 m 5.0 m
1103.3 m 5.0 m
1118.3 m 4.0 m
1143.2 m 2.0 m
1183.0 m 0.0 m
2667.0 m 0.0 m
2714.0 m 2.0 m
2721.7 m 2.0 m
2741.9 m 0.0 m
3009.1 m 0.0 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 1.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 16 legs from Chalk Street, 3030.2 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 201SP138246, recorded tenure "Reserve". 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: 331901 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    107.9 m at 263.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 331901 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 331939 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    29.1 m at 277.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 331939 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 332433 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    24.2 m at 10.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 332433 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1734201 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    79.3 m at 302.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1734201 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 1734239 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.2 m at 280.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1734239 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 1734315 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    227.1 m at 272.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1734315 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 332509 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    3.7 m at 280.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 332509 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 1734391 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    118.0 m at 294.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1734391 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 338285 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    105.2 m at 353.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 338285 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 336347 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    15.1 m at 8.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 336347 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 336233 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    225.7 m at 273.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 336233 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 2450045 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    480.4 m at 55.0°. 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 2450045 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 13: 2450083 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    380.3 m at 81.2°. 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 2450083 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 14: 2450007 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    651.1 m at 77.4°. 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 2450007 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 15: 2450197 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    272.8 m at 77.1°. 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 2450197 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 16: 2450121 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    290.1 m at 149.1°. 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 2450121 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

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Location
Point Danger
Lot on plan
201SP138246
Coordinates
-28.16417, 153.55167 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
point