Public Trails Computed from official land records

Redland · Wallum Creek

Wallum Creek from minimally formed natural track off Beehive Road

entry is a track 145 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class wallum-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-beehive-road-2

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

A lawful approach from minimally formed natural track off Beehive 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 -27.42230, 153.45386

That is minimally formed natural track off Beehive Road, where the walk below begins — 13.8 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.

-27.42230, 153.45386

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 Protected estate 2NPW1121 nothing mapped 1807.2 m 162.1° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1979626 nothing mapped 1894.3 m 207.3° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 3649757 nothing mapped 2569.7 m 238.0° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 2127408 an unnamed formed sealed open 371.2 m 213.7° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 2126496 an unnamed formed sealed open 48.9 m 225.2° SW Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 2127446 an unnamed formed sealed open 254.9 m 232.4° SW Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 2128320 nothing mapped 40.4 m 14.6° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 528537 nothing mapped 435.3 m 344.7° NNW Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 528499 nothing mapped 2158.0 m 11.0° N Statutory inference — evidence class
10 Watercourse bed 528613 nothing mapped 2011.2 m 20.4° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
11 Watercourse bed 529031 nothing mapped 1573.2 m 14.3° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
12 Watercourse bed 528993 nothing mapped 616.8 m 9.4° N Statutory inference — evidence class
Total 665.2 m mapped 13781.1 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 2128320 and 528499 is 361.44 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 528537 and 528613 is 2159.18 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 528499 and 529031 is 1914.02 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 528613 and 528993 is 1548.06 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 steps, but the record maps ground here

at least 6 hours out and back

at least 3 hours there at least 3 hours back

145 m up and 200 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 200 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

What is mapped along this chain

A managing authority has surveyed a way along 665 m of this 13781 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 4–6 an unnamed formed sealed Official spatial — evidence class

    665 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public .

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 13775.0 m · height 0.0 to 75.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
145.0 m
Total descent
200.0 m
Steepest sustained
33.4% over 59.8 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
14.2 m 55.0 m
66.7 m 50.0 m
146.2 m 45.0 m
219.5 m 40.0 m
307.6 m 35.0 m
312.0 m 35.0 m
318.8 m 35.0 m
418.4 m 35.0 m
486.1 m 40.0 m
652.7 m 40.0 m
697.1 m 40.0 m
755.9 m 40.0 m
801.8 m 35.0 m
1041.6 m 30.0 m
1142.1 m 25.0 m
1231.2 m 25.0 m
1397.9 m 30.0 m
1399.1 m 30.0 m
1403.2 m 30.0 m
1495.9 m 35.0 m
1539.6 m 35.0 m
1657.6 m 35.0 m
1687.5 m 40.0 m
1722.4 m 45.0 m
1746.9 m 45.0 m
1794.0 m 40.0 m
2125.4 m 40.0 m
2173.7 m 45.0 m
2228.6 m 50.0 m
2295.4 m 50.0 m
2409.4 m 45.0 m
2727.9 m 40.0 m
2899.1 m 40.0 m
2920.6 m 45.0 m
2937.8 m 50.0 m
2952.9 m 55.0 m
2966.9 m 60.0 m
2982.0 m 65.0 m
2997.6 m 70.0 m
3056.5 m 70.0 m
3112.3 m 65.0 m
3146.0 m 60.0 m
3176.2 m 55.0 m
3214.3 m 50.0 m
3257.1 m 45.0 m
3305.7 m 40.0 m
3428.0 m 35.0 m
3478.8 m 30.0 m
3530.4 m 25.0 m
3633.0 m 20.0 m
3662.5 m 15.0 m
3680.0 m 15.0 m
3876.1 m 20.0 m
3916.5 m 25.0 m
3963.4 m 30.0 m
4050.1 m 35.0 m
4075.7 m 40.0 m
4095.9 m 45.0 m
4113.6 m 50.0 m
4129.7 m 55.0 m
4145.7 m 60.0 m
4160.9 m 65.0 m
4175.8 m 70.0 m
4193.5 m 75.0 m
4270.1 m 75.0 m
4410.9 m 70.0 m
4475.8 m 65.0 m
4496.2 m 60.0 m
4512.4 m 55.0 m
4528.3 m 50.0 m
4544.2 m 45.0 m
4562.7 m 40.0 m
4583.3 m 35.0 m
4609.0 m 30.0 m
4639.5 m 25.0 m
4961.2 m 25.0 m
5009.8 m 25.0 m
5053.6 m 20.0 m
5074.2 m 15.0 m
5109.8 m 15.0 m
5132.6 m 20.0 m
5422.3 m 25.0 m
5566.4 m 30.0 m
5605.2 m 30.0 m
5742.2 m 25.0 m
5913.5 m 25.0 m
6101.8 m 30.0 m
6235.1 m 30.0 m
6305.7 m 25.0 m
6440.3 m 25.0 m
6447.1 m 25.0 m
6448.0 m 25.0 m
6484.0 m 25.0 m
6570.0 m 20.0 m
6630.9 m 15.0 m
6681.5 m 10.0 m
6728.6 m 5.0 m
7235.6 m 0.0 m
7247.7 m 0.0 m
7253.5 m 0.0 m
12742.1 m 0.0 m
12754.5 m 0.0 m
12972.8 m 0.0 m
12980.5 m 0.0 m
13048.2 m 0.0 m
13054.4 m 0.0 m
13063.3 m 0.0 m
13073.5 m 0.0 m
13114.3 m 0.0 m
13135.1 m 0.0 m
13146.4 m 0.0 m
13151.5 m 0.0 m
13154.8 m 0.0 m
13228.3 m 0.0 m
13241.1 m 0.0 m
13248.3 m 0.0 m
13536.2 m 0.0 m
13545.0 m 0.0 m
13555.0 m 0.0 m
13586.6 m 0.0 m
13601.3 m 0.0 m
13775.0 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: 12 legs from minimally formed natural track off Beehive Road, 13781.1 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 528993, 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: 2NPW1121 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1807.2 m at 162.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2NPW1121 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1979626 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1894.3 m at 207.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1979626 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 3649757 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    2569.7 m at 238.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3649757 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 2127408 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    371.2 m at 213.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2127408 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 2126496 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    48.9 m at 225.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2126496 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 2127446 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    254.9 m at 232.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2127446 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 2128320 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    40.4 m at 14.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2128320 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 528537 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    435.3 m at 344.7°. 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 528537 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 528499 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    2158.0 m at 11.0°. 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 528499 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 10: 528613 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    2011.2 m at 20.4°. 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 528613 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 11: 529031 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1573.2 m at 14.3°. 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 529031 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 12: 528993 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    616.8 m at 9.4°. 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 528993 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
Wallum Creek
Lot on plan
528993
Coordinates
-27.41027, 153.43929 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from