Public Trails Computed from official land records

Noosa · Cooroibah Creek

Cooroibah Creek from Read Street

entry is a road 0 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class cooroibah-creek--from-read-street

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

A lawful approach from Read 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 -26.37890, 153.02745

That is Read Street, where the walk below begins — 2.8 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.

-26.37890, 153.02745

An ordinary car reaches the start The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as trafficable by an ordinary vehicle.

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 1291863 nothing mapped 273.3 m 278.6° W Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1292015 nothing mapped 52.8 m 311.9° NW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 1350687 nothing mapped 803.2 m 34.2° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Protected estate 9AP23771 nothing mapped 755.6 m 310.9° NW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 1352853 nothing mapped 398.6 m 232.7° SW Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 877782 nothing mapped 35.6 m 324.0° NW Official spatial — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 867826 nothing mapped 429.6 m 10.5° N Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Road reserve 871284 nothing mapped 94.2 m 113.7° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 2842.9 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 1292015 and 9AP23771 is 13.46 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 877782 and 871284 is 10.26 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

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

0 m up and 5 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 5 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 2799.4 m · height 0.0 to 5.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
0.0 m
Total descent
5.0 m
Steepest sustained
0.5% over 910.9 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
16.3 m 5.0 m
177.2 m 5.0 m
203.2 m 5.0 m
1114.2 m 0.0 m
1127.5 m 0.0 m
2310.3 m 0.0 m
2344.0 m 0.0 m
2799.4 m 0.0 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: 8 legs from Read Street, 2842.9 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

    Parcel not resolved, recorded tenure "unresolved". 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: 1291863 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    273.3 m at 278.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1291863 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1292015 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    52.8 m at 311.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1292015 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1350687 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    803.2 m at 34.2°. 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 1350687 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 9AP23771 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    755.6 m at 310.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 9AP23771 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 1352853 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    398.6 m at 232.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1352853 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 877782 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    35.6 m at 324.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 877782 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 867826 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    429.6 m at 10.5°. 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 867826 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 871284 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    94.2 m at 113.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 871284 Grade official_spatial

  • 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
Cooroibah Creek
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-26.36620, 153.02140 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from