Public Trails Computed from official land records

Logan · Saltwater Creek

Saltwater Creek from Church Street

entry is a road 10 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-church-street

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

A lawful approach from Church Street, 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 -27.72080, 153.20555

That is Church Street, where the walk below begins — 2.2 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.

-27.72080, 153.20555

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 3018891 nothing mapped 15.1 m 309.2° NW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 3025503 nothing mapped 98.8 m 321.3° NW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 3026605 nothing mapped 62.3 m 285.9° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 3013077 nothing mapped 126.0 m 219.4° SW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 3012735 nothing mapped 10.1 m 242.4° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 3012925 nothing mapped 193.4 m 278.5° W Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 3009733 nothing mapped 228.7 m 4.0° N Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 3008327 nothing mapped 26.6 m 9.1° N Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 3007947 nothing mapped 212.4 m 14.5° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 3009695 nothing mapped 13.0 m 327.2° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 3009619 nothing mapped 14.8 m 314.3° NW Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 3054079 nothing mapped 22.8 m 10.5° N Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 3066239 nothing mapped 20.2 m 99.2° E Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 3068709 nothing mapped 80.6 m 113.5° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 3024819 nothing mapped 62.8 m 99.0° E Official spatial — evidence class
16 Road reserve 3067835 nothing mapped 114.4 m 99.0° E Official spatial — evidence class
17 Road reserve 3024515 nothing mapped 7.1 m 99.0° E Official spatial — evidence class
18 Road reserve 3230285 nothing mapped 348.2 m 100.2° E Official spatial — evidence class
19 Road reserve 3190233 nothing mapped 36.3 m 64.4° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
20 Road reserve 2832 nothing mapped 52.7 m 47.5° NE Official spatial — evidence class
21 Road reserve 2832 nothing mapped 52.7 m 47.5° NE Official spatial — evidence class
22 Road reserve 3189853 nothing mapped 46.5 m 51.0° NE Official spatial — evidence class
23 Road reserve 3896 nothing mapped 58.8 m 53.7° NE Official spatial — evidence class
24 Road reserve 3229943 nothing mapped 92.0 m 111.7° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
25 Watercourse bed 13548 nothing mapped 134.2 m 42.4° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
26 Watercourse bed 22212 nothing mapped 45.0 m 57.1° ENE Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 2175.5 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 3229943 and 22212 is 118.38 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 published way to follow

at least 1 hour out and back

at least half an hour there at least half an hour back

10 m up and 15 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 15 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 1966.6 m · height 5.0 to 15.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
10.0 m
Total descent
15.0 m
Steepest sustained
7.5% over 66.7 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
81.5 m 10.0 m
166.0 m 5.0 m
393.5 m 5.0 m
510.9 m 10.0 m
649.3 m 15.0 m
700.3 m 15.0 m
1218.0 m 10.0 m
1790.5 m 10.0 m
1799.1 m 10.0 m
1899.9 m 10.0 m
1957.2 m 10.0 m
1966.6 m 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

Map

Route map: 26 legs from Church Street, 2175.5 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 22212, 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: 3018891 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    15.1 m at 309.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3018891 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 3025503 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    98.8 m at 321.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3025503 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 3026605 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    62.3 m at 285.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3026605 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 3013077 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    126.0 m at 219.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3013077 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 3012735 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    10.1 m at 242.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3012735 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 3012925 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    193.4 m at 278.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3012925 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 3009733 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    228.7 m at 4.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3009733 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 3008327 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    26.6 m at 9.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3008327 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 3007947 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    212.4 m at 14.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3007947 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 3009695 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    13.0 m at 327.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3009695 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 3009619 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    14.8 m at 314.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3009619 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 3054079 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    22.8 m at 10.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3054079 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 3066239 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.2 m at 99.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3066239 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 3068709 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    80.6 m at 113.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3068709 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 3024819 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    62.8 m at 99.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3024819 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 3067835 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    114.4 m at 99.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3067835 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 3024515 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    7.1 m at 99.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3024515 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 18: 3230285 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    348.2 m at 100.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3230285 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 19: 3190233 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    36.3 m at 64.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3190233 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 20: 2832 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    52.7 m at 47.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2832 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 21: 2832 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    52.7 m at 47.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2832 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 22: 3189853 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    46.5 m at 51.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3189853 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 23: 3896 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    58.8 m at 53.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3896 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 24: 3229943 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    92.0 m at 111.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3229943 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 25: 13548 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    134.2 m at 42.4°. 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 13548 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 26: 22212 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    45.0 m at 57.1°. 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 22212 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
Saltwater Creek
Lot on plan
22212
Coordinates
-27.71495, 153.21237 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from