Public Trails Computed from official land records

Lockyer Valley · Stony Creek

Stony Creek from Laurel Lane West

entry is a road 0 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class stony-creek--from-laurel-lane-west

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

A lawful approach from Laurel Lane West, 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 -27.86142, 152.38589

That is Laurel Lane West, where the walk below begins — 1.4 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.

-27.86142, 152.38589

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 2155101 an unnamed closed road closed 1280.8 m 21.1° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 2155823 an unnamed closed road closed 41.7 m 352.0° N Official spatial — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 2155671 an unnamed closed road closed 7.7 m 7.4° N Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 2155709 an unnamed closed road closed 7.7 m 7.4° N Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 1188319 nothing mapped 78.0 m 296.8° WNW Statutory inference — evidence class
Total 1159.2 m mapped 1415.9 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 2155823 and 2155709 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2155671 and 1188319 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 steps, but the record maps ground here

at least half an hour out and back

at least a quarter of an hour there at least a quarter of an hour back

0 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

What is mapped along this chain

A managing authority has surveyed a way along 1159 m of this 1416 m chain — about 82% 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.

  • Legs 1–4 an unnamed closed road Official spatial — evidence class

    1159 m along it · the authority publishes this way as closed .

One of the ways above is published as closed. The parcels still carry a right of passage, so this route is not withdrawn — but the authority that manages the way has shut it, and its reason is not in the record. Treat it as the answer to a question you would otherwise have had to ask on the ground.

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 1328.2 m · height 200.0 to 220.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
0.0 m
Total descent
20.0 m
Steepest sustained
2.0% over 245.0 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
65.0 m 220.0 m
310.1 m 215.0 m
657.5 m 210.0 m
1040.0 m 205.0 m
1328.2 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: 5 legs from Laurel Lane West, 1415.9 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 1188319, 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: 2155101 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1280.8 m at 21.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2155101 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 2155823 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    41.7 m at 352.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2155823 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 2155671 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    7.7 m at 7.4°. 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 2155671 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 2155709 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    7.7 m at 7.4°. 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 2155709 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 1188319 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    78.0 m at 296.8°. 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 1188319 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
Stony Creek
Lot on plan
1188319
Coordinates
-27.84981, 152.38983 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from