Public Trails Computed from official land records

Ipswich · Sandy Creek

Sandy Creek from Queensborough Parade

entry is a road 10 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class sandy-creek-29820--from-queensborough-parade

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

A lawful approach from Queensborough Parade, 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 -27.58023, 152.80928

That is Queensborough Parade, where the walk below begins — 2.8 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.

-27.58023, 152.80928

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 1466755 nothing mapped 508.2 m 128.4° SE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1466717 nothing mapped 60.9 m 125.7° SE Official spatial — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 1475077 nothing mapped 761.1 m 278.0° W Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 1250002 nothing mapped 210.5 m 264.4° W Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 1458813 nothing mapped 120.3 m 260.8° W Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 1252966 nothing mapped 541.2 m 270.4° W Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 1254524 nothing mapped 359.2 m 255.3° WSW Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 1255816 nothing mapped 136.8 m 252.8° WSW Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 1458775 nothing mapped 126.7 m 263.5° W Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 2824.9 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 1466717 and 1250002 is 209.13 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1475077 and 1458813 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1250002 and 1252966 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1458813 and 1254524 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1252966 and 1255816 is 341.70 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1254524 and 1458775 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 1 hour out and back

at least half an hour there at least half an hour back

10 m up and 20 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 20 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 1078.2 m · height 5.0 to 15.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
10.0 m
Total descent
20.0 m
Steepest sustained
10.8% over 93.0 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
213.9 m 15.0 m
214.4 m 15.0 m
224.8 m 15.0 m
317.6 m 15.0 m
353.5 m 15.0 m
412.9 m 15.0 m
467.2 m 10.0 m
553.0 m 5.0 m
581.2 m 5.0 m
850.9 m 10.0 m
985.2 m 15.0 m
1043.1 m 15.0 m
1061.2 m 10.0 m
1078.2 m 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

Map

Route map: 9 legs from Queensborough Parade, 2824.9 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 1458775, recorded tenure "Watercourse". 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: 1466755 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    508.2 m at 128.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1466755 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1466717 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    60.9 m at 125.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1466717 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1475077 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    761.1 m at 278.0°. 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 1475077 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 1250002 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    210.5 m at 264.4°. 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 1250002 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 1458813 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    120.3 m at 260.8°. 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 1458813 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 1252966 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    541.2 m at 270.4°. 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 1252966 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 1254524 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    359.2 m at 255.3°. 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 1254524 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 1255816 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    136.8 m at 252.8°. 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 1255816 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 1458775 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    126.7 m at 263.5°. 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 1458775 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

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Sandy Creek
Lot on plan
1458775
Coordinates
-27.58408, 152.79126 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from