Shady Creek from Western Break

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 Caravan for 85 m, setting off ENE (68°), to the junction with Track.

   Back: 248° along Caravan, 85 m from the start.

2. Follow Caravan for 93 m, setting off NE (50°), to the junction with Track.

   Back: 230° along Caravan, 178 m from the start.

3. Follow Caravan for 106 m, setting off ENE (77°), to the junction with Track.

   Back: 257° along Caravan, 283 m from the start.

4. Follow Caravan for 86 m, setting off ESE (103°), to the junction with Track.

   Back: 283° along Caravan, 369 m from the start.

5. Follow Caravan for 82 m, setting off ESE (103°), to the junction with Track.

   Back: 283° along Caravan, 450 m from the start.

6. Follow Caravan for 97 m, setting off ENE (78°), to the junction with Track.

   Back: 258° along Caravan, 548 m from the start.

7. Follow Caravan for 103 m, setting off ESE (108°), to the junction with Track.

   Back: 288° along Caravan, 650 m from the start.

8. Follow Caravan for 116 m, setting off SE (128°), to the junction with Track.

   Back: 308° along Caravan, 766 m from the start.

9. Follow Caravan for 87 m, setting off SE (140°), to the junction with Track.

   Back: 320° along Caravan, 853 m from the start.

10. Follow Caravan for 101 m, setting off SE (131°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 311° along Caravan, 954 m from the start.

11. Follow Caravan for 85 m, setting off ESE (120°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 300° along Caravan, 1039 m from the start.

12. Follow Caravan for 97 m, setting off SSE (162°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 342° along Caravan, 1136 m from the start.

13. Follow Caravan for 91 m, setting off SSE (153°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 333° along Caravan, 1227 m from the start.

14. Follow Caravan for 102 m, setting off E (91°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 271° along Caravan, 1329 m from the start.

15. Follow Caravan for 89 m, setting off ESE (108°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 288° along Caravan, 1418 m from the start.

16. Follow Caravan for 90 m, setting off SE (130°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 310° along Caravan, 1508 m from the start.

17. Follow Caravan for 85 m, setting off SE (137°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 317° along Caravan, 1593 m from the start.

18. Follow Caravan for 97 m, setting off ESE (122°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 302° along Caravan, 1689 m from the start.

19. Follow Caravan for 117 m, setting off ESE (122°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 302° along Caravan, 1806 m from the start.

20. Follow Caravan for 118 m, setting off ESE (115°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 295° along Caravan, 1923 m from the start.

21. Follow Caravan for 101 m, setting off ESE (122°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 302° along Caravan, 2024 m from the start.

22. Follow Caravan for 91 m, setting off E (99°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 279° along Caravan, 2116 m from the start.

23. Follow Caravan for 164 m, setting off NNW (334°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 154° along Caravan, 2280 m from the start.

24. Follow Caravan for 96 m, setting off ESE (107°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 287° along Caravan, 2376 m from the start.

25. Follow Caravan for 142 m, setting off ESE (113°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 293° along Caravan, 2518 m from the start.

26. Follow Caravan for 85 m, setting off E (81°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 261° along Caravan, 2603 m from the start.

27. Follow Caravan for 164 m, setting off ESE (109°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 289° along Caravan, 2767 m from the start.

28. Follow Caravan for 399 m, setting off NNE (15°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 195° along Caravan, 3166 m from the start.

29. Follow Caravan for 83 m, setting off E (90°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 270° along Caravan, 3249 m from the start.

30. Follow Caravan for 386 m, setting off N (1°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 181° along Caravan, 3635 m from the start.

31. Follow Caravan for 328 m, setting off N (359°), to the junction with Track.

    Back: 179° along Caravan, 3963 m from the start.

32. Follow Caravan for 95 m, setting off NNW (337°), to the junction with East Haldon Road.

    Back: 157° along Caravan, 4058 m from the start.

33. Follow Caravan for 118 m, setting off WNW (285°), to the 505 m contour.

    Back: 105° along Caravan, 4175 m from the start.

34. Follow Caravan for 112 m, setting off WNW (282°), to the 505 m contour.

    Back: 102° along Caravan, 4287 m from the start.

35. Follow Caravan for 85 m, setting off W (270°), to the 500 m contour.

    Back: 90° along Caravan, 4372 m from the start.

36. Follow Caravan for 316 m, setting off NW (308°), to the 500 m contour.

    Back: 128° along Caravan, 4688 m from the start.

37. Follow Caravan for 590 m, setting off NW (314°), to the junction with East Haldon Road.

    Back: 134° along Caravan, 5278 m from the start.

38. Follow Caravan for 706 m, setting off NW (317°), to where it crosses Blackfellow Creek.

    Back: 137° along Caravan, 5984 m from the start.

39. Follow Caravan for 431 m, setting off NNW (338°), to where it crosses Blackfellow Creek.

    Back: 158° along Caravan, 6415 m from the start.

40. Follow Caravan for 65 m, setting off WNW (284°), to arrive.

    Back: 104° along Caravan, 6480 m from the start.

6480 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

70.0 m

Total descent

595.0 m

Steepest sustained

39.0% over 64.1 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 Main Range National Park Official spatial — evidence class

  Parcel 105CH312522, 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: Caravan carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  40.6 m at 87.6°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

  Leg reference Caravan Grade official_spatial

• Leg 2: formed natural track (Authority or Lease holder) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  2067.4 m at 113.2°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

  Leg reference formed natural track (Authority or Lease holder) Grade official_spatial

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

  1903.1 m at 27.7°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

  Leg reference Sphincter Grade official_spatial

• Leg 4: Black Fellow Creek carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

  2468.8 m at 312.7°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

  Leg reference Black Fellow Creek Grade official_spatial

If something goes wrong

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 2026-08-27
• 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