Public Trails Computed from official land records

Moreton Bay · Rose Creek

Rose Creek from minimally formed natural track off Bruce Highway

entry is a track 5 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class rose-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-bruce-highway-6

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

A lawful approach from minimally formed natural track off Bruce Highway.

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 -26.98405, 152.98054

That is minimally formed natural track off Bruce Highway, where the walk below begins — 2.1 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.

-26.98405, 152.98054

Four-wheel-drive only The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as four-wheel-drive. A vehicle that gets most of the way along a road like this can still be stopped by the last of it.

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 985809 nothing mapped 339.0 m 201.0° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 985505 nothing mapped 39.5 m 211.5° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 985543 nothing mapped 435.3 m 210.7° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Protected estate 1AP23631 nothing mapped 1276.2 m 268.7° W Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 2090.0 m Chain confidence Official spatial — 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.

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

5 m up and 25 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 25 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 2028.1 m · height 15.0 to 35.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
5.0 m
Total descent
25.0 m
Steepest sustained
6.2% over 81.1 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
56.9 m 35.0 m
57.6 m 35.0 m
58.3 m 35.0 m
60.4 m 35.0 m
61.9 m 35.0 m
163.8 m 30.0 m
276.6 m 25.0 m
367.8 m 25.0 m
532.3 m 25.0 m
577.6 m 25.0 m
697.9 m 25.0 m
824.3 m 20.0 m
905.4 m 15.0 m
1018.2 m 15.0 m
1231.3 m 20.0 m
1245.9 m 20.0 m
1248.9 m 20.0 m
1273.4 m 20.0 m
1297.2 m 20.0 m
1774.0 m 20.0 m
2028.1 m 15.0 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: 4 legs from minimally formed natural track off Bruce Highway, 2090.0 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 Beerburrum East State Forest Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 1AP23631, recorded tenure "State Forest". 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: 985809 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    339.0 m at 201.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 985809 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 985505 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    39.5 m at 211.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 985505 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 985543 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    435.3 m at 210.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 985543 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1AP23631 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1276.2 m at 268.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1AP23631 Grade official_spatial

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Rose Creek, Beerburrum East State Forest
Lot on plan
1AP23631
Coordinates
-26.99085, 152.96402 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from