Public Trails Computed from official land records

Lockyer Valley · Nelsons Spur

Nelsons Spur from Boundary Road

entry is a road 165 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class nelsons-spur--from-boundary-road

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

A lawful approach from Boundary 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 -27.63228, 151.94198

That is Boundary Road, where the walk below begins — 4.3 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.

-27.63228, 151.94198

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 2498328 nothing mapped 72.4 m 278.1° W Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 2497606 nothing mapped 269.9 m 353.8° N Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 2497530 nothing mapped 22.1 m 344.0° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 2497454 nothing mapped 306.3 m 12.1° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 2506270 nothing mapped 34.8 m 35.4° NE Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 2497340 nothing mapped 71.2 m 65.5° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 2490158 nothing mapped 35.9 m 58.3° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 2490614 nothing mapped 59.6 m 42.2° NE Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 2490044 nothing mapped 1364.0 m 102.1° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
10 Watercourse bed 2491526 nothing mapped 142.4 m 91.4° E Statutory inference — evidence class
11 Watercourse bed 2489398 nothing mapped 901.0 m 118.7° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
12 Road reserve 2490234 nothing mapped 479.6 m 326.5° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 2490272 nothing mapped 569.0 m 303.6° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 4328.2 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 2490044 and 2489398 is 2.93 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2491526 and 2490234 is 337.08 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

at least 2¼ hours out and back

at least 1 hour there at least 1¼ hours back

165 m up and 245 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 245 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 4253.6 m · height 425.0 to 640.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
165.0 m
Total descent
245.0 m
Steepest sustained
39.6% over 50.6 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
171.2 m 630.0 m
247.3 m 635.0 m
334.4 m 640.0 m
543.9 m 640.0 m
605.9 m 635.0 m
644.4 m 630.0 m
656.5 m 630.0 m
670.8 m 630.0 m
703.2 m 625.0 m
822.2 m 625.0 m
871.0 m 625.0 m
879.2 m 625.0 m
905.9 m 625.0 m
997.0 m 620.0 m
1056.4 m 615.0 m
1089.2 m 610.0 m
1147.9 m 605.0 m
1164.3 m 600.0 m
1295.4 m 600.0 m
1312.9 m 605.0 m
1328.9 m 610.0 m
1341.1 m 610.0 m
1359.8 m 605.0 m
1428.6 m 600.0 m
1441.8 m 595.0 m
1455.4 m 590.0 m
1467.2 m 585.0 m
1479.2 m 580.0 m
1492.7 m 575.0 m
1508.3 m 570.0 m
1531.2 m 565.0 m
1553.1 m 560.0 m
1565.0 m 555.0 m
1595.3 m 555.0 m
1638.0 m 555.0 m
1658.5 m 550.0 m
1671.1 m 545.0 m
1683.7 m 540.0 m
1704.1 m 535.0 m
1719.7 m 530.0 m
1728.5 m 525.0 m
1737.8 m 520.0 m
1752.6 m 515.0 m
1846.6 m 510.0 m
1931.8 m 505.0 m
1981.2 m 500.0 m
2000.8 m 495.0 m
2017.5 m 490.0 m
2033.1 m 485.0 m
2049.9 m 480.0 m
2132.4 m 475.0 m
2194.8 m 470.0 m
2241.9 m 465.0 m
2257.4 m 465.0 m
2260.1 m 465.0 m
2374.5 m 460.0 m
2415.9 m 460.0 m
2429.0 m 465.0 m
2456.5 m 465.0 m
2473.1 m 465.0 m
2499.4 m 470.0 m
2520.0 m 475.0 m
2583.1 m 475.0 m
2601.8 m 470.0 m
2615.3 m 465.0 m
2638.3 m 460.0 m
2651.1 m 455.0 m
2659.1 m 450.0 m
2696.1 m 450.0 m
2745.7 m 450.0 m
2823.2 m 445.0 m
2867.8 m 440.0 m
2874.8 m 440.0 m
2896.1 m 445.0 m
2930.9 m 445.0 m
2985.3 m 440.0 m
3027.4 m 435.0 m
3093.2 m 430.0 m
3248.2 m 425.0 m
3303.0 m 425.0 m
3338.4 m 430.0 m
3361.9 m 435.0 m
3397.2 m 440.0 m
3420.9 m 445.0 m
3436.6 m 450.0 m
3453.2 m 455.0 m
3468.2 m 460.0 m
3481.9 m 465.0 m
3507.9 m 470.0 m
3543.5 m 475.0 m
3651.0 m 480.0 m
3665.9 m 485.0 m
3687.5 m 490.0 m
3720.5 m 495.0 m
3795.5 m 500.0 m
3834.0 m 505.0 m
3868.1 m 505.0 m
3928.6 m 505.0 m
3942.2 m 510.0 m
3960.0 m 515.0 m
3979.4 m 520.0 m
3993.9 m 525.0 m
4006.0 m 530.0 m
4052.9 m 535.0 m
4071.2 m 535.0 m
4129.1 m 535.0 m
4155.7 m 540.0 m
4176.3 m 545.0 m
4200.1 m 550.0 m
4253.6 m 550.0 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: 13 legs from Boundary Road, 4328.2 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

    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: 2498328 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    72.4 m at 278.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2498328 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 2497606 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    269.9 m at 353.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2497606 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 2497530 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    22.1 m at 344.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2497530 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 2497454 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    306.3 m at 12.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2497454 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 2506270 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    34.8 m at 35.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2506270 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 2497340 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    71.2 m at 65.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2497340 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 2490158 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    35.9 m at 58.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2490158 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 2490614 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    59.6 m at 42.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2490614 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 2490044 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1364.0 m at 102.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2490044 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 2491526 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    142.4 m at 91.4°. 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 2491526 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 11: 2489398 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    901.0 m at 118.7°. 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 2489398 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 12: 2490234 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    479.6 m at 326.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2490234 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 2490272 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    569.0 m at 303.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2490272 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
Nelsons Spur
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-27.62583, 151.95861 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
ridge

What this approach was read from