Public Trails Computed from official land records

Noosa · North Head

North Head from minimally formed natural track off Track

entry is a track chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class north-head--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-track

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

A lawful approach from minimally formed natural track off Track, 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 -26.37131, 153.07220

That is minimally formed natural track off Track, where the walk below begins — 1.0 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.

-26.37131, 153.07220

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 1241285 nothing mapped 466.7 m 154.0° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Protected estate 16AP23771 nothing mapped 54.2 m 196.1° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1241019 nothing mapped 39.9 m 207.6° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 1242159 Frying Pan Track unassessed 37.1 m 203.7° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 1242121 Frying Pan Track unassessed 13.9 m 203.7° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 1241057 nothing mapped 421.3 m 145.4° SE Official spatial — evidence class
Total 51.0 m mapped 1033.1 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.

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.

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

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track. The climb on this route could not be measured, so the figure is flat-ground time and the real walk is longer.

Naismith's rule, and what it does not account for

What is mapped along this chain

A managing authority has surveyed a way along 51 m of this 1033 m chain — about 5% 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 4–5 Frying Pan Track Official spatial — evidence class

    51 m along it · the authority maps it but publishes no assessment of it (Local Government Authority).

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 No contour cover along this line

No profile is published for this route. The contour layer does not cross its line often enough to describe a climb, and a profile drawn from anything else would be a guess about the ground.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 6 legs from minimally formed natural track off Track, 1033.1 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

    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: 1241285 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    466.7 m at 154.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1241285 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 16AP23771 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    54.2 m at 196.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 16AP23771 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1241019 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    39.9 m at 207.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1241019 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1242159 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    37.1 m at 203.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1242159 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 1242121 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    13.9 m at 203.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1242121 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 1241057 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    421.3 m at 145.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1241057 Grade official_spatial

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Official spatial — 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
North Head
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-26.37944, 153.07611 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
cape

What this approach was read from