Purling Brook Falls from Powerline Break

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The chain, leg by leg Computed from cadastral geometry; never walked

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

1. Follow Powerline Break for 89 m, setting off NNE (33°), to the junction with Powerline Break.

   Back: 213° along Powerline Break, 89 m from the start.

2. Follow Powerline Break for 106 m, setting off N (2°), to the junction with Powerline Break.

   Back: 182° along Powerline Break, 195 m from the start.

3. Follow Powerline Break for 96 m, setting off E (100°), to the 555 m contour.

   Back: 280° along Powerline Break, 291 m from the start.

4. Follow Powerline Break for 108 m, setting off ESE (111°), to the 535 m contour.

   Back: 291° along Powerline Break, 399 m from the start.

5. Follow Powerline Break for 120 m, setting off ESE (108°), to the 515 m contour.

   Back: 288° along Powerline Break, 519 m from the start.

6. Follow Powerline Break for 120 m, setting off SSW (198°), to the 500 m contour.

   Back: 18° along Powerline Break, 639 m from the start.

7. Follow Powerline Break for 895 m, setting off ESE (113°), to the boundary of Springbrook National Park.

   Back: 293° along Powerline Break, 1534 m from the start.

8. Follow Powerline Break for 98 m, setting off ESE (118°), to the 355 m contour.

   Back: 298° along Powerline Break, 1632 m from the start.

9. Follow Powerline Break for 92 m, setting off WSW (240°), to the 345 m contour.

   Back: 60° along Powerline Break, 1724 m from the start.

10. Follow Powerline Break for 92 m, setting off SSW (194°), to the 350 m contour.

    Back: 14° along Powerline Break, 1816 m from the start.

11. Follow Powerline Break for 87 m, setting off S (191°), to the 350 m contour.

    Back: 11° along Powerline Break, 1903 m from the start.

12. Follow Powerline Break for 834 m, setting off S (178°), to where it crosses Little Nerang Creek (West Branch).

    Back: 358° along Powerline Break, 2737 m from the start.

13. Follow Powerline Break for 357 m, setting off SSW (196°), to where it crosses Kuralboo Creek.

    Back: 16° along Powerline Break, 3094 m from the start.

14. Follow Powerline Break for 879 m, setting off SSE (148°), to the junction with Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk).

    Back: 328° along Powerline Break, 3972 m from the start.

15. Follow Powerline Break for 77 m, setting off SSE (165°), to arrive.

    Back: 345° along Powerline Break, 4049 m from the start.

4049 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.

How much climbing Read off the published contour layer

Total climb

240.0 m

Total descent

350.0 m

Steepest sustained

43.6% over 57.4 m

Contour interval

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 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link

• The destination sits on Springbrook National Park B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

  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; see the footer

• Leg 1: Powerline Break carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

  220.4 m at 14.7°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

  Leg reference Powerline Break Grade B

• Leg 2: GC Hinterland Great Walk - Springbrook carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

  2489.7 m at 141.8°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

  Leg reference GC Hinterland Great Walk - Springbrook Grade B

• Leg 3: Nixons Creek to Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd (Great Walk) carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

  37.4 m at 221.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

  Leg reference Nixons Creek to Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd (Great Walk) Grade B

• Leg 4: Warringa Pool Track (Great Walk) carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

  1224.7 m at 162.2°. 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 B

• Leg 5: Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

  76.7 m at 164.9°. 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 B

If something goes wrong

What this page will never do

• No user pins

  Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute and carries a grade, A to C. Community names are quarantined at grade D and labelled as such. Nothing on this page was dropped on a map by a stranger.

• No invented lawfulness

  Where tenure cannot be confirmed from the public record, the page says so instead of endorsing the route or quietly hiding it. Where no lawful corridor exists at all, none is published — the refusal is the answer.

• No safety pretence

  A tier is a tenure verdict, not a difficulty or safety rating. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.