Public Trails Computed from official land records

Scenic Rim · Black Rock Creek

Black Rock Creek from Ganthorpe Road

entry is a road 105 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class black-rock-creek--from-ganthorpe-road

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

A lawful approach from Ganthorpe 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 -28.06911, 152.59496

That is Ganthorpe Road, where the walk below begins — 9.1 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.

-28.06911, 152.59496

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 3027427 nothing mapped 1951.2 m 144.5° SE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1209057 nothing mapped 1345.0 m 190.9° S Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1208411 nothing mapped 1345.8 m 11.8° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 3027541 nothing mapped 499.9 m 98.0° E Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 3027389 nothing mapped 502.3 m 98.5° E Official spatial — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 2377325 nothing mapped 654.3 m 9.3° N Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 3027313 nothing mapped 1159.2 m 293.0° WNW Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 3027275 nothing mapped 1135.0 m 321.9° NW Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Road reserve 3027237 nothing mapped 37.8 m 12.8° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
10 Watercourse bed 3027199 nothing mapped 429.9 m 20.7° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 9060.4 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 3027389 and 3027313 is 451.17 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2377325 and 3027275 is 1127.16 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3027313 and 3027237 is 678.28 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 4 hours out and back

at least 2 hours there at least 2 hours back

105 m up and 115 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 115 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 9036.1 m · height 110.0 to 150.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
105.0 m
Total descent
115.0 m
Steepest sustained
14.6% over 68.6 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
258.8 m 120.0 m
313.5 m 125.0 m
370.9 m 130.0 m
429.6 m 135.0 m
473.6 m 135.0 m
522.6 m 130.0 m
582.7 m 125.0 m
645.4 m 120.0 m
941.0 m 120.0 m
1127.0 m 120.0 m
1140.1 m 120.0 m
1199.2 m 125.0 m
1249.5 m 130.0 m
1362.1 m 130.0 m
1432.7 m 125.0 m
1575.7 m 120.0 m
1913.2 m 120.0 m
2168.0 m 125.0 m
2235.1 m 130.0 m
2295.0 m 130.0 m
2432.3 m 130.0 m
2494.2 m 130.0 m
2527.6 m 130.0 m
2576.2 m 135.0 m
2615.2 m 140.0 m
2663.0 m 145.0 m
2701.6 m 145.0 m
2721.0 m 140.0 m
2736.3 m 135.0 m
2898.1 m 135.0 m
2943.0 m 140.0 m
2991.1 m 145.0 m
3041.9 m 150.0 m
3375.5 m 150.0 m
3385.6 m 150.0 m
3545.0 m 150.0 m
3602.5 m 145.0 m
3652.1 m 140.0 m
3698.6 m 135.0 m
3866.5 m 135.0 m
3877.5 m 140.0 m
3892.1 m 145.0 m
3935.0 m 145.0 m
3979.1 m 140.0 m
4016.2 m 135.0 m
4244.4 m 130.0 m
4280.1 m 130.0 m
4379.3 m 130.0 m
4456.0 m 125.0 m
4665.3 m 125.0 m
4709.6 m 130.0 m
4752.3 m 135.0 m
4795.0 m 140.0 m
4845.1 m 145.0 m
4971.4 m 145.0 m
5031.3 m 140.0 m
5076.1 m 140.0 m
5121.7 m 145.0 m
5167.2 m 150.0 m
5308.7 m 150.0 m
5364.5 m 145.0 m
5412.5 m 140.0 m
5455.1 m 135.0 m
5541.6 m 130.0 m
5644.0 m 125.0 m
5645.5 m 125.0 m
5816.6 m 125.0 m
5839.8 m 125.0 m
5934.3 m 125.0 m
6331.2 m 125.0 m
6386.7 m 125.0 m
7048.8 m 120.0 m
8284.5 m 115.0 m
9036.1 m 110.0 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: 10 legs from Ganthorpe Road, 9060.4 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 3027161, 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: 3027427 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1951.2 m at 144.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3027427 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1209057 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1345.0 m at 190.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1209057 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1208411 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1345.8 m at 11.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1208411 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 3027541 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    499.9 m at 98.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3027541 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 3027389 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    502.3 m at 98.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3027389 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 2377325 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    654.3 m at 9.3°. 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 2377325 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 3027313 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1159.2 m at 293.0°. 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 3027313 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 3027275 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1135.0 m at 321.9°. 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 3027275 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 3027237 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    37.8 m at 12.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3027237 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 3027199 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    429.9 m at 20.7°. 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 3027199 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
Black Rock Creek
Lot on plan
3027161
Coordinates
-28.06283, 152.60151 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse