Rankins Falls from Powerline Walk Link 4

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 (Great Walk) for 108 m, setting off SSE (151°), to the 555 m contour.

   Back: 331° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 108 m from the start.

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

   Back: 291° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 216 m from the start.

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

   Back: 288° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 336 m from the start.

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

   Back: 18° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 456 m from the start.

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

   Back: 293° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 1351 m from the start.

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

   Back: 298° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 1449 m from the start.

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

   Back: 60° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 1541 m from the start.

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

   Back: 14° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 1634 m from the start.

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

   Back: 11° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 1720 m from the start.

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

    Back: 358° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 2554 m from the start.

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

    Back: 16° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 2911 m from the start.

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

    Back: 328° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 3790 m from the start.

13. Follow Powerline Break (Great Walk) for 844 m, setting off WNW (302°), to the junction with Steps.

    Back: 122° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 4634 m from the start.

14. Follow Powerline Break (Great Walk) for 125 m, setting off WNW (295°), to the junction with Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk).

    Back: 115° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 4758 m from the start.

15. Follow Powerline Break (Great Walk) for 204 m, setting off S (177°), to the junction with Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk).

    Back: 357° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 4963 m from the start.

16. Follow Powerline Break (Great Walk) for 245 m, setting off SE (136°), to the junction with Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk).

    Back: 316° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 5208 m from the start.

17. Follow Powerline Break (Great Walk) for 120 m, setting off ESE (115°), to the junction with Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk).

    Back: 295° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 5328 m from the start.

18. Follow Powerline Break (Great Walk) for 2 m, setting off E (90°), to arrive.

    Back: 270° along Powerline Break (Great Walk), 5330 m from the start.

5330 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

400.0 m

Total descent

370.0 m

Steepest sustained

42.9% over 58.2 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 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: Powerline Break (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  37.4 m at 216.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

  Leg reference Powerline Break (Great Walk) Grade official_spatial

• Leg 2: GC Hinterland Great Walk - Springbrook carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  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 official_spatial

• Leg 3: Nixons Creek to Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  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 official_spatial

• Leg 4: Warringa Pool Track (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  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 official_spatial

• Leg 5: Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  835.7 m at 301.1°. 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 6: Steps carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  8.1 m at 332.6°. 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 7: Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  124.6 m at 295.4°. 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 8: Steps carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  10.1 m at 145.8°. 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 9: Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  93.0 m at 294.4°. 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 10: Steps carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  26.0 m at 136.4°. 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 11: Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  57.7 m at 125.1°. 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 12: Steps carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  10.5 m at 126.9°. 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 13: Purling Brook Falls Circuit (Great Walk) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  366.8 m at 128.2°. 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

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What this approach was read from

• Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
• Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
• Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-30
• Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16
• Protected areas of Queensland (estate polygons) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
• QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
• Queensland roads and tracks (named road centrelines) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
• Queensland watercourse lines and water bodies — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
• Queensland waterfall points (Foundation Data) — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23