Public Trails Computed from official land records

Lockyer Valley · Fifteen Mile Creek

Fifteen Mile Creek from Thomas Road

entry is a road 115 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class fifteen-mile-creek--from-thomas-road

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

A lawful approach from Thomas Road, 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 -27.47607, 152.08432

That is Thomas Road, where the walk below begins — 6.0 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.

-27.47607, 152.08432

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 1306194 nothing mapped 630.1 m 228.9° SW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1305700 nothing mapped 745.1 m 187.0° S Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1305776 nothing mapped 20.1 m 189.6° S Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 1305966 nothing mapped 115.2 m 208.0° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 1306156 nothing mapped 14.9 m 173.7° S Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 1305852 nothing mapped 1392.5 m 123.4° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 1305282 Ridge Road Firebreak open 186.8 m 24.2° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 1306498 nothing mapped 1400.6 m 5.6° N Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 1307220 nothing mapped 617.6 m 358.1° N Statutory inference — evidence class
10 Road reserve 1307942 nothing mapped 803.7 m 337.0° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
11 Watercourse bed 1307486 nothing mapped 39.8 m 41.1° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
12 Road reserve 1307752 nothing mapped 8.9 m 132.2° SE Official spatial — evidence class
Total 177.0 m mapped 5975.3 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 1305852 and 1306498 is 162.76 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1305282 and 1307220 is 1394.04 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1306498 and 1307942 is 330.98 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1307942 and 1307752 is 33.97 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No steps, but the record maps ground here

at least 3 hours out and back

at least 1½ hours there at least 1½ hours back

115 m up and 120 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 120 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

What is mapped along this chain

A managing authority has surveyed a way along 177 m of this 5975 m chain — about 3% of it. That is a statement about what is on the ground, not about your right to be there, which the parcels above already settled, and not a direction: no step below is measured along any of these ways.

  • Leg 7 Ridge Road Firebreak Official spatial — evidence class

    177 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service).

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 5794.2 m · height 180.0 to 215.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
115.0 m
Total descent
120.0 m
Steepest sustained
37.6% over 53.1 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
52.0 m 205.0 m
117.0 m 200.0 m
232.9 m 200.0 m
300.8 m 205.0 m
372.5 m 205.0 m
448.5 m 200.0 m
490.8 m 195.0 m
566.6 m 195.0 m
617.0 m 195.0 m
688.0 m 195.0 m
732.7 m 200.0 m
778.1 m 205.0 m
829.6 m 210.0 m
896.8 m 215.0 m
1114.5 m 215.0 m
1164.9 m 210.0 m
1208.0 m 205.0 m
1270.2 m 200.0 m
1365.2 m 195.0 m
1618.9 m 190.0 m
2000.5 m 185.0 m
2121.0 m 185.0 m
2294.3 m 190.0 m
2413.5 m 195.0 m
2641.2 m 195.0 m
2760.2 m 195.0 m
2820.5 m 195.0 m
2856.4 m 190.0 m
2878.6 m 185.0 m
2901.8 m 180.0 m
3182.0 m 180.0 m
3206.2 m 185.0 m
3419.8 m 185.0 m
3506.1 m 180.0 m
3568.9 m 180.0 m
3628.6 m 185.0 m
3670.5 m 190.0 m
3818.7 m 195.0 m
3848.7 m 195.0 m
4025.2 m 190.0 m
4064.3 m 185.0 m
4134.2 m 185.0 m
4142.0 m 190.0 m
4166.0 m 195.0 m
4176.7 m 200.0 m
4187.3 m 205.0 m
4203.4 m 210.0 m
4219.7 m 215.0 m
4256.3 m 215.0 m
4283.6 m 210.0 m
4316.2 m 205.0 m
4384.2 m 200.0 m
4400.8 m 195.0 m
4438.6 m 190.0 m
4520.1 m 190.0 m
4661.0 m 195.0 m
4806.9 m 200.0 m
4811.1 m 200.0 m
4819.7 m 200.0 m
4839.6 m 200.0 m
4855.0 m 200.0 m
4887.3 m 200.0 m
4887.5 m 200.0 m
4902.9 m 200.0 m
4968.6 m 195.0 m
5126.9 m 195.0 m
5152.6 m 200.0 m
5255.7 m 205.0 m
5350.2 m 210.0 m
5492.9 m 215.0 m
5641.9 m 215.0 m
5732.6 m 210.0 m
5768.5 m 205.0 m
5794.2 m 200.0 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: 12 legs from Thomas Road, 5975.3 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

    Parcel not resolved, recorded tenure "unresolved". 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: 1306194 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    630.1 m at 228.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1306194 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1305700 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    745.1 m at 187.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1305700 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1305776 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.1 m at 189.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1305776 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1305966 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    115.2 m at 208.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1305966 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 1306156 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    14.9 m at 173.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1306156 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 1305852 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1392.5 m at 123.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1305852 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 1305282 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    186.8 m at 24.2°. 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 1305282 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 1306498 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1400.6 m at 5.6°. 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 1306498 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 1307220 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    617.6 m at 358.1°. 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 1307220 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 10: 1307942 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    803.7 m at 337.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1307942 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 1307486 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    39.8 m at 41.1°. 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 1307486 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 12: 1307752 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    8.9 m at 132.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1307752 Grade official_spatial

  • 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
Fifteen Mile Creek
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-27.46806, 152.08888 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from