Public Trails Computed from official land records

Lockyer Valley Official spatial — evidence class · Lockyer Valley · QLD

Shady Creek

Track to the watercourse a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Unclassified -27.94081, 152.29906 Main Range National Park · National Park watercourse

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

Public land — inside Main Range National Park. A published track reaches it.

Being at this point is lawful on the records below. Getting there is a separate question, answered route by route — and each route carries its own verdict and its own caveats.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A watercourse — the channel a creek or river runs in, named at one coordinate along a length that may run for kilometres. Whether there is water in it is not recorded, and neither is whether its bed may be walked — that is a question about the land the channel crosses, answered on this site by the tenure chain rather than by the name.

Shady Creek sits on Blackfellow Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 1.3 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside Main Range National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is basalt, mapped as Main Range Volcanics (Tm) , eocene - miocene in age. The survey describes it as: Olivine basalt Official spatial — evidence class

The remnant vegetation mapping records no ecosystem over this point. That covers remnant vegetation only, so it is what the register says about ground that has been cleared, or is water, sand or rock — not a statement that nothing grows here.

On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "Shady Creek" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 105CH312522 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Lockyer Valley, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate Main Range National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 38,283 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 18 Dec 2025; first gazetted 8 Aug 1908; no encumbrance recorded. Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse Blackfellow Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 1.3 m away. Official spatial — evidence class
Feature Recorded as a watercourse in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Shady Creek and the start of the one published approach to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

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.

Is there a track to it Measured in plan and in section

The way reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

Black Fellow Creek passes 14 m from the recorded point. The gap crosses no contour, which is as level as this layer can evidence — not a survey saying the ground is flat.

Both gaps are small enough that the way is a way to this place, not merely one near it.

Approaches — one page each 1 published of 2 computed

2 ways in were computed and 1 is published here. The rest either reach the same ground from a few hundred metres away — the same drive and the same walk — or reach no lawful chain at all, which is only worth saying when nothing else does.

Shady Creek from Western Break

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class shady-creek--from-western-break
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
6479.9 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Yuggera Ugarapul People — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. Official spatial — evidence class

A cultural heritage party boundary and a native title claim are different legal things. This page never conflates them, and it publishes neither as a permission.

All land and waters in Queensland carry a duty of care under s.23 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) — including here. Cultural heritage site locations are restricted by law (ss.38–46), deliberately, for site protection. This site holds party boundaries only and will never republish site locations. Check the public register and, where in doubt, seek guidance from the Aboriginal party for the area.

Searching a register does not of itself satisfy the duty of care.

Rules here — derived from tenure National Park · statutory inference

This point sits on protected estate. In Queensland that ordinarily means no dogs or pets, no open fires outside provided facilities, no camping outside designated areas, no drones without authority, and nothing taken. These follow from the tenure and the legislation that governs it — they are statutory inference, not a copy of a sign.

Statutes relied on: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld) and its regulations for protected estate; Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 for watercourse beds; Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) ss.23 and 38–46 for the duty of care and for why site locations are never republished here.

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Shady Creek, Main Range National Park
Lot on plan
105CH312522
Coordinates
-27.94081, 152.29906 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this place was read from