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Scenic Rim · Cameron Falls

Cameron Falls from Geissmann Drive

entry is a road 85 m of climb chain confidence C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference cameron-falls--from-geissmann-drive
  • A Gazetted / register — The fact is itself a statutory record.
  • B Official spatial record — Read from a maintained government layer.
  • C Statutory inference — Law applied to B-grade records; not ground-truthed.
  • D Community record — Community sources; labelled, never blended into A–C.

Access verdict · tier 2 of 4 · confidence C (statutory inference, the weakest grade in the chain)

A lawful approach from Geissmann Drive, 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.

  1. 1 · Lawful, nothing to flag Every leg is ground the public may cross, and nothing about the chain needs a warning. Whether a built track runs along it is said separately.
  2. 2 · Lawful, with caveats A lawful chain with at least one thing about it that has to be said first. This page is here.
  3. 3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published.
  4. 4 · No lawful route Enclosed by land the public has no right to cross. No route published.

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -27.92739, 153.18516

That is Geissmann Drive, where the walk below begins — 3.3 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.

-27.92739, 153.18516

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 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 395.5 m 110.2° ESE B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
2 Road reserve 625221 nothing mapped 424.1 m 45.3° NE B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
3 Watercourse bed 627729 an unnamed formed sealed open 31.3 m 56.6° ENE C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference
4 Road reserve 1977834 nothing mapped 323.6 m 5.0° N B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
5 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 518.4 m 286.0° WNW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
6 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 761.9 m 311.7° NW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
7 Road reserve 1681973 an unnamed formed sealed open 44.0 m 172.4° S B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
8 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 846.6 m 298.7° WNW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total 75.3 m mapped 3345.4 m Chain confidence C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

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 kept this off tier 1

  • 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 625221 and 1977834 is 31.51 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No steps, but the record maps ground here

at least 1¾ hours out and back

at least three quarters of an hour there at least 1 hour back

85 m up and 275 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 275 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 75 m of this 3345 m chain — about 2% 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.

  • Leg 3 an unnamed formed sealed B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    31 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service).

  • Leg 7 an unnamed formed sealed B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    44 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 3343.9 m · height 350.0 to 540.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total climb
85.0 m
Total descent
275.0 m
Steepest sustained
97.4% over 51.3 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
7.5 m 540.0 m
197.3 m 535.0 m
256.0 m 530.0 m
314.7 m 525.0 m
373.0 m 520.0 m
506.8 m 515.0 m
547.8 m 510.0 m
712.4 m 505.0 m
767.8 m 500.0 m
845.4 m 495.0 m
859.3 m 495.0 m
879.1 m 500.0 m
1034.7 m 500.0 m
1107.4 m 495.0 m
1122.6 m 495.0 m
1128.6 m 495.0 m
1160.1 m 490.0 m
1171.8 m 485.0 m
1180.4 m 485.0 m
1200.2 m 490.0 m
1216.8 m 495.0 m
1234.4 m 500.0 m
1254.6 m 500.0 m
1290.7 m 495.0 m
1319.9 m 495.0 m
1326.9 m 495.0 m
1350.2 m 490.0 m
1372.5 m 485.0 m
1468.6 m 485.0 m
1474.3 m 485.0 m
1553.5 m 485.0 m
1566.9 m 485.0 m
1571.5 m 485.0 m
1598.9 m 490.0 m
1639.9 m 495.0 m
1656.3 m 500.0 m
1672.6 m 505.0 m
1723.8 m 510.0 m
1734.9 m 510.0 m
1778.9 m 505.0 m
1833.9 m 505.0 m
1868.7 m 505.0 m
1914.7 m 505.0 m
1923.8 m 505.0 m
1948.0 m 505.0 m
1978.0 m 510.0 m
1984.9 m 510.0 m
2006.8 m 510.0 m
2028.0 m 510.0 m
2039.7 m 510.0 m
2106.5 m 515.0 m
2127.5 m 515.0 m
2146.9 m 510.0 m
2185.7 m 510.0 m
2199.2 m 515.0 m
2222.9 m 520.0 m
2249.8 m 525.0 m
2273.2 m 530.0 m
2299.4 m 535.0 m
2363.8 m 540.0 m
2536.6 m 540.0 m
2553.9 m 540.0 m
2625.9 m 540.0 m
2646.6 m 535.0 m
2669.8 m 530.0 m
2735.4 m 525.0 m
2767.6 m 520.0 m
2786.4 m 520.0 m
2821.3 m 520.0 m
2838.1 m 515.0 m
2863.1 m 510.0 m
2869.1 m 505.0 m
2874.2 m 500.0 m
2889.2 m 495.0 m
2903.2 m 490.0 m
2950.7 m 490.0 m
2973.6 m 490.0 m
3018.7 m 485.0 m
3051.5 m 480.0 m
3089.9 m 475.0 m
3099.9 m 470.0 m
3108.4 m 465.0 m
3122.1 m 460.0 m
3134.6 m 455.0 m
3144.3 m 450.0 m
3174.2 m 445.0 m
3185.6 m 440.0 m
3188.9 m 435.0 m
3190.0 m 430.0 m
3191.2 m 425.0 m
3192.7 m 420.0 m
3194.1 m 415.0 m
3202.5 m 410.0 m
3207.4 m 405.0 m
3226.5 m 400.0 m
3231.9 m 395.0 m
3236.9 m 390.0 m
3243.0 m 385.0 m
3255.5 m 380.0 m
3267.9 m 375.0 m
3280.4 m 370.0 m
3294.2 m 365.0 m
3303.7 m 360.0 m
3329.9 m 355.0 m
3343.9 m 350.0 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 Geissmann Drive, 3345.4 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 Tamborine National Park B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    Parcel 441NPW909, recorded tenure "National Park". 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; see the footer

  • Leg 1: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    395.5 m at 110.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B

  • Leg 2: 625221 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    424.1 m at 45.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 625221 Grade B

  • Leg 3: 627729 carries a right of passage C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

    31.3 m at 56.6°. 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 627729 Grade C

  • Leg 4: 1977834 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    323.6 m at 5.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1977834 Grade B

  • Leg 5: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    518.4 m at 286.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B

  • Leg 6: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    761.9 m at 311.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B

  • Leg 7: 1681973 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    44.0 m at 172.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1681973 Grade B

  • Leg 8: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    846.6 m at 298.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade B

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

    Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest grade in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at grade C.

    Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Cameron Falls, Tamborine National Park
Lot on plan
441NPW909
Coordinates
-27.91373, 153.17422 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
waterfall

What this page will never do

  • No user pins

    Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute and carries a grade, A to C. Community names are quarantined at grade D and labelled as such. Nothing on this page was dropped on a map by a stranger.

  • No invented lawfulness

    Where tenure cannot be confirmed from the public record, the page says so instead of endorsing the route or quietly hiding it. Where no lawful corridor exists at all, none is published — the refusal is the answer.

  • No safety pretence

    A tier is a tenure verdict, not a difficulty or safety rating. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.

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