Public Trails Computed from official land records

Moreton Bay · Yellow Creek

Yellow Creek from Rucker Road

entry is a road 250 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class yellow-creek--from-rucker-road

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

A lawful approach from Rucker Road, 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 -27.06171, 152.85677

That is Rucker Road, where the walk below begins — 10.0 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.

-27.06171, 152.85677

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 1539013 nothing mapped 264.7 m 343.3° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1551059 nothing mapped 28.0 m 8.4° N Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1551439 nothing mapped 83.3 m 354.2° N Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 1538975 nothing mapped 637.9 m 280.0° W Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 1555771 nothing mapped 579.6 m 319.1° NW Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 1522559 nothing mapped 35.1 m 304.4° NW Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 1513667 nothing mapped 165.9 m 306.5° NW Official spatial — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 1520127 nothing mapped 6.4 m 280.6° W Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 1520127 nothing mapped 6.4 m 280.6° W Statutory inference — evidence class
10 Watercourse bed 1514959 nothing mapped 7.6 m 266.5° W Statutory inference — evidence class
11 Watercourse bed 1520165 nothing mapped 7.6 m 266.5° W Statutory inference — evidence class
12 Road reserve 1513705 nothing mapped 71.2 m 266.5° W Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 1517771 nothing mapped 34.4 m 266.5° W Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 1513819 nothing mapped 371.5 m 261.9° W Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 1513857 nothing mapped 24.6 m 296.3° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
16 Road reserve 1514693 nothing mapped 1310.9 m 325.2° NW Official spatial — evidence class
17 Road reserve 1514731 nothing mapped 42.6 m 21.5° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
18 Road reserve 1514769 nothing mapped 106.7 m 40.0° NE Official spatial — evidence class
19 Road reserve 1517391 nothing mapped 1598.3 m 58.5° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
20 Road reserve 1518227 nothing mapped 855.4 m 76.8° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
21 Road reserve 1517353 nothing mapped 249.9 m 148.4° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
22 Road reserve 1529171 nothing mapped 768.2 m 143.9° SE Official spatial — evidence class
23 Road reserve 1533427 nothing mapped 32.8 m 109.7° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
24 Road reserve 1532211 nothing mapped 92.3 m 136.3° SE Official spatial — evidence class
25 Road reserve 1531527 nothing mapped 20.1 m 173.2° S Official spatial — evidence class
26 Road reserve 1531641 nothing mapped 162.6 m 176.1° S Official spatial — evidence class
27 Road reserve 1536201 nothing mapped 2313.3 m 153.1° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
28 Watercourse bed 1540153 nothing mapped 169.8 m 105.7° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 10047.1 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 1513667 and 1520127 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1520127 and 1514959 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1520127 and 1520165 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1514959 and 1513705 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 published way to follow

at least 5 hours out and back

at least 2½ hours there at least 2½ hours back

250 m up and 270 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 270 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 10046.7 m · height 20.0 to 130.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
250.0 m
Total descent
270.0 m
Steepest sustained
28.3% over 52.9 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
2.7 m 40.0 m
127.9 m 40.0 m
167.8 m 45.0 m
332.5 m 50.0 m
499.0 m 50.0 m
576.4 m 45.0 m
621.1 m 45.0 m
768.0 m 50.0 m
1037.4 m 50.0 m
1121.8 m 50.0 m
1145.4 m 55.0 m
1229.3 m 60.0 m
1355.8 m 60.0 m
1529.5 m 55.0 m
1551.0 m 55.0 m
1572.7 m 55.0 m
1675.9 m 50.0 m
1769.8 m 45.0 m
1795.0 m 40.0 m
1814.0 m 40.0 m
1865.5 m 45.0 m
1890.5 m 50.0 m
2133.9 m 55.0 m
2213.9 m 60.0 m
2274.6 m 65.0 m
2435.5 m 65.0 m
2565.7 m 60.0 m
2642.3 m 60.0 m
2746.2 m 65.0 m
2794.8 m 65.0 m
2844.0 m 65.0 m
2900.2 m 70.0 m
2906.7 m 70.0 m
2907.2 m 70.0 m
2941.0 m 70.0 m
2966.6 m 65.0 m
2974.4 m 65.0 m
3009.5 m 70.0 m
3031.4 m 75.0 m
3054.3 m 80.0 m
3080.9 m 85.0 m
3118.1 m 90.0 m
3134.8 m 90.0 m
3169.1 m 85.0 m
3205.7 m 80.0 m
3241.7 m 75.0 m
3330.4 m 75.0 m
3404.8 m 80.0 m
3435.9 m 85.0 m
3469.4 m 90.0 m
3500.2 m 95.0 m
3524.8 m 100.0 m
3545.6 m 105.0 m
3562.4 m 110.0 m
3586.0 m 115.0 m
3617.1 m 120.0 m
3671.6 m 125.0 m
3701.9 m 130.0 m
3718.1 m 130.0 m
3745.6 m 125.0 m
3761.1 m 120.0 m
3773.6 m 120.0 m
3806.3 m 125.0 m
3836.0 m 125.0 m
3859.3 m 120.0 m
3919.8 m 115.0 m
3947.1 m 110.0 m
3964.4 m 105.0 m
3978.0 m 100.0 m
4000.1 m 95.0 m
4019.9 m 90.0 m
4047.2 m 85.0 m
4084.1 m 80.0 m
4221.3 m 75.0 m
4252.6 m 75.0 m
4279.4 m 80.0 m
4321.4 m 85.0 m
4347.2 m 90.0 m
4368.7 m 95.0 m
4429.5 m 95.0 m
4532.0 m 90.0 m
4657.6 m 85.0 m
4734.1 m 80.0 m
4741.8 m 80.0 m
4752.2 m 80.0 m
4789.2 m 80.0 m
4814.2 m 80.0 m
4870.2 m 75.0 m
4953.8 m 70.0 m
5090.6 m 65.0 m
5156.8 m 60.0 m
5226.9 m 55.0 m
5271.2 m 50.0 m
5371.9 m 45.0 m
5376.8 m 45.0 m
5495.6 m 45.0 m
5524.0 m 40.0 m
5545.6 m 35.0 m
5549.0 m 35.0 m
5628.2 m 40.0 m
5730.5 m 40.0 m
5745.0 m 35.0 m
5766.7 m 35.0 m
5854.3 m 40.0 m
5886.3 m 45.0 m
6011.2 m 50.0 m
6134.5 m 55.0 m
6231.4 m 60.0 m
6272.2 m 60.0 m
6548.3 m 60.0 m
6747.0 m 65.0 m
6986.2 m 70.0 m
7324.6 m 75.0 m
7386.4 m 80.0 m
7593.0 m 80.0 m
7676.1 m 75.0 m
7757.8 m 70.0 m
7787.3 m 65.0 m
7807.9 m 60.0 m
7824.2 m 55.0 m
7840.9 m 50.0 m
7879.9 m 50.0 m
7901.4 m 55.0 m
7944.2 m 60.0 m
7982.5 m 60.0 m
8018.7 m 55.0 m
8036.6 m 50.0 m
8054.6 m 45.0 m
8076.7 m 40.0 m
8098.1 m 35.0 m
8111.9 m 35.0 m
8145.5 m 40.0 m
8171.6 m 45.0 m
8264.2 m 45.0 m
8277.6 m 40.0 m
8280.7 m 40.0 m
8300.0 m 45.0 m
8330.7 m 45.0 m
8360.7 m 40.0 m
8374.8 m 35.0 m
8397.4 m 30.0 m
8497.5 m 25.0 m
8527.0 m 25.0 m
8605.8 m 30.0 m
8854.5 m 30.0 m
8862.7 m 30.0 m
8894.6 m 30.0 m
8926.7 m 25.0 m
8974.8 m 25.0 m
8991.7 m 25.0 m
9005.7 m 25.0 m
9009.7 m 25.0 m
9225.8 m 25.0 m
9254.6 m 25.0 m
9358.5 m 25.0 m
9379.8 m 30.0 m
9479.9 m 30.0 m
9627.2 m 30.0 m
9685.3 m 30.0 m
9847.0 m 25.0 m
9956.6 m 25.0 m
9987.7 m 25.0 m
10046.7 m 20.0 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: 28 legs from Rucker Road, 10047.1 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 1540153, 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: 1539013 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    264.7 m at 343.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1539013 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1551059 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    28.0 m at 8.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1551059 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1551439 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    83.3 m at 354.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1551439 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1538975 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    637.9 m at 280.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1538975 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 1555771 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    579.6 m at 319.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1555771 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 1522559 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    35.1 m at 304.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1522559 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 1513667 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    165.9 m at 306.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1513667 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 1520127 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    6.4 m at 280.6°. 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 1520127 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 1520127 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    6.4 m at 280.6°. 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 1520127 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 10: 1514959 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    7.6 m at 266.5°. 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 1514959 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 11: 1520165 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    7.6 m at 266.5°. 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 1520165 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 12: 1513705 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    71.2 m at 266.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1513705 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 1517771 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    34.4 m at 266.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1517771 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 1513819 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    371.5 m at 261.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1513819 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 1513857 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    24.6 m at 296.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1513857 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 1514693 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1310.9 m at 325.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1514693 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 1514731 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    42.6 m at 21.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1514731 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 18: 1514769 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    106.7 m at 40.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1514769 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 19: 1517391 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1598.3 m at 58.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1517391 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 20: 1518227 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    855.4 m at 76.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1518227 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 21: 1517353 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    249.9 m at 148.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1517353 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 22: 1529171 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    768.2 m at 143.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1529171 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 23: 1533427 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    32.8 m at 109.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1533427 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 24: 1532211 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    92.3 m at 136.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1532211 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 25: 1531527 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.1 m at 173.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1531527 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 26: 1531641 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    162.6 m at 176.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1531641 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 27: 1536201 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    2313.3 m at 153.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1536201 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 28: 1540153 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    169.8 m at 105.7°. 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 1540153 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
Yellow Creek
Lot on plan
1540153
Coordinates
-27.06160, 152.87350 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from