Public Trails Computed from official land records

Scenic Rim · Hendersons Knob

Hendersons Knob from North West Escarpment Break

entry is a road 550 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class hendersons-knob--from-north-west-escarpment-break-2

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

A lawful approach from North West Escarpment Break, 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 -27.93031, 153.16155

That is North West Escarpment Break, where the walk below begins — 7.8 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.

-27.93031, 153.16155

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 2468154 nothing mapped 411.0 m 89.7° E Official spatial — evidence class
2 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 1556.8 m 116.6° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1874094 an unnamed formed sealed open 316.7 m 0.8° N Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 1874132 nothing mapped 37.9 m 56.8° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 1874170 nothing mapped 549.2 m 41.6° NE Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 1876032 nothing mapped 28.5 m 12.5° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 1876070 nothing mapped 132.2 m 30.2° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 1982470 nothing mapped 11.5 m 26.8° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 755447 nothing mapped 78.5 m 25.1° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 599229 an unnamed formed sealed open 79.0 m 112.2° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
11 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 312.8 m 101.1° E Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 625221 nothing mapped 424.1 m 45.3° NE Official spatial — evidence class
13 Watercourse bed 627729 an unnamed formed sealed open 31.3 m 56.6° ENE Statutory inference — evidence class
14 Road reserve 1977834 nothing mapped 323.6 m 5.0° N Official spatial — evidence class
15 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 518.4 m 286.0° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
16 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 761.9 m 311.7° NW Official spatial — evidence class
17 Road reserve 1681973 an unnamed formed sealed open 44.0 m 172.4° S Official spatial — evidence class
18 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 966.0 m 280.4° W Official spatial — evidence class
19 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 1213.4 m 253.8° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
Total 431.4 m mapped 7796.8 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 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 4½ hours out and back

at least 2½ hours there at least 2 hours back

550 m up and 290 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 290 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 431 m of this 7797 m chain — about 6% 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 Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • Leg 10 an unnamed formed sealed Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • Leg 13 an unnamed formed sealed Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • Leg 17 an unnamed formed sealed Official spatial — evidence class

    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 7732.6 m · height 285.0 to 555.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
550.0 m
Total descent
290.0 m
Steepest sustained
70.3% over 64.0 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
5.6 m 285.0 m
18.3 m 290.0 m
39.6 m 295.0 m
84.4 m 300.0 m
105.1 m 305.0 m
144.0 m 310.0 m
211.6 m 315.0 m
228.7 m 320.0 m
246.2 m 325.0 m
266.4 m 330.0 m
294.7 m 335.0 m
307.6 m 340.0 m
319.6 m 345.0 m
335.9 m 350.0 m
366.3 m 355.0 m
386.1 m 360.0 m
403.8 m 365.0 m
421.0 m 370.0 m
435.6 m 375.0 m
445.1 m 380.0 m
454.5 m 385.0 m
466.3 m 390.0 m
478.8 m 395.0 m
592.7 m 400.0 m
601.0 m 405.0 m
614.8 m 410.0 m
623.4 m 415.0 m
641.5 m 420.0 m
659.5 m 425.0 m
670.7 m 430.0 m
681.3 m 435.0 m
688.9 m 440.0 m
695.6 m 445.0 m
699.1 m 450.0 m
701.8 m 455.0 m
706.0 m 460.0 m
720.5 m 465.0 m
800.4 m 465.0 m
906.6 m 460.0 m
915.0 m 460.0 m
992.2 m 465.0 m
1058.9 m 465.0 m
1091.1 m 460.0 m
1117.1 m 455.0 m
1124.0 m 450.0 m
1128.2 m 445.0 m
1131.7 m 440.0 m
1135.2 m 435.0 m
1139.4 m 430.0 m
1149.1 m 425.0 m
1162.1 m 420.0 m
1179.4 m 420.0 m
1212.0 m 425.0 m
1261.2 m 430.0 m
1273.1 m 435.0 m
1307.3 m 440.0 m
1315.0 m 445.0 m
1324.0 m 450.0 m
1339.0 m 455.0 m
1361.2 m 460.0 m
1386.3 m 465.0 m
1595.5 m 470.0 m
1751.8 m 475.0 m
1785.3 m 480.0 m
1802.2 m 485.0 m
1822.1 m 490.0 m
1836.3 m 495.0 m
1845.0 m 500.0 m
1852.1 m 505.0 m
1858.6 m 510.0 m
1865.3 m 515.0 m
1872.0 m 520.0 m
1876.0 m 525.0 m
1879.5 m 530.0 m
1886.2 m 535.0 m
1905.0 m 540.0 m
1934.9 m 545.0 m
2027.9 m 550.0 m
2140.4 m 555.0 m
2356.3 m 555.0 m
2666.6 m 550.0 m
2770.9 m 545.0 m
2843.5 m 540.0 m
2893.0 m 540.0 m
3048.7 m 540.0 m
3161.1 m 535.0 m
3214.3 m 535.0 m
3311.6 m 535.0 m
3377.0 m 530.0 m
3431.3 m 525.0 m
3486.1 m 520.0 m
3625.5 m 515.0 m
3666.5 m 510.0 m
3831.1 m 505.0 m
3886.5 m 500.0 m
3964.1 m 495.0 m
3978.0 m 495.0 m
3997.8 m 500.0 m
4153.4 m 500.0 m
4226.1 m 495.0 m
4241.3 m 495.0 m
4247.2 m 495.0 m
4278.8 m 490.0 m
4290.4 m 485.0 m
4299.1 m 485.0 m
4318.9 m 490.0 m
4335.4 m 495.0 m
4353.1 m 500.0 m
4373.3 m 500.0 m
4409.3 m 495.0 m
4438.6 m 495.0 m
4445.6 m 495.0 m
4468.8 m 490.0 m
4491.2 m 485.0 m
4587.3 m 485.0 m
4593.0 m 485.0 m
4672.2 m 485.0 m
4685.6 m 485.0 m
4690.2 m 485.0 m
4717.6 m 490.0 m
4758.6 m 495.0 m
4775.0 m 500.0 m
4791.3 m 505.0 m
4842.5 m 510.0 m
4853.6 m 510.0 m
4897.6 m 505.0 m
4952.5 m 505.0 m
4987.4 m 505.0 m
5033.4 m 505.0 m
5042.5 m 505.0 m
5066.7 m 505.0 m
5096.6 m 510.0 m
5103.5 m 510.0 m
5125.5 m 510.0 m
5146.7 m 510.0 m
5158.4 m 510.0 m
5225.2 m 515.0 m
5246.2 m 515.0 m
5265.6 m 510.0 m
5304.4 m 510.0 m
5317.9 m 515.0 m
5341.6 m 520.0 m
5368.5 m 525.0 m
5391.8 m 530.0 m
5418.1 m 535.0 m
5482.5 m 540.0 m
5630.3 m 540.0 m
5764.1 m 535.0 m
5795.0 m 530.0 m
5820.8 m 525.0 m
5842.0 m 520.0 m
5863.2 m 515.0 m
5880.8 m 510.0 m
5897.6 m 505.0 m
5909.2 m 500.0 m
5922.1 m 495.0 m
5940.1 m 490.0 m
5953.1 m 485.0 m
5979.1 m 480.0 m
6004.8 m 485.0 m
6040.4 m 485.0 m
6065.8 m 485.0 m
6076.3 m 485.0 m
6121.4 m 480.0 m
6169.8 m 475.0 m
6180.5 m 475.0 m
6196.3 m 480.0 m
6258.6 m 485.0 m
6310.1 m 485.0 m
6359.1 m 480.0 m
6471.1 m 480.0 m
6478.5 m 480.0 m
6482.7 m 480.0 m
6487.9 m 480.0 m
6617.0 m 480.0 m
6636.2 m 485.0 m
6649.6 m 490.0 m
6666.9 m 495.0 m
6678.7 m 500.0 m
6700.1 m 505.0 m
6702.8 m 510.0 m
6712.9 m 515.0 m
6722.1 m 520.0 m
6734.9 m 525.0 m
6756.0 m 530.0 m
6786.8 m 535.0 m
6807.0 m 540.0 m
6823.0 m 545.0 m
6846.8 m 550.0 m
6886.2 m 550.0 m
6933.5 m 545.0 m
6955.1 m 540.0 m
6962.1 m 535.0 m
7016.3 m 530.0 m
7041.1 m 525.0 m
7067.9 m 520.0 m
7085.1 m 520.0 m
7103.7 m 520.0 m
7119.6 m 515.0 m
7135.6 m 510.0 m
7149.5 m 505.0 m
7163.0 m 500.0 m
7182.2 m 495.0 m
7325.6 m 490.0 m
7360.6 m 490.0 m
7383.6 m 495.0 m
7392.8 m 500.0 m
7400.3 m 505.0 m
7408.9 m 510.0 m
7425.2 m 515.0 m
7434.9 m 520.0 m
7443.5 m 525.0 m
7454.2 m 530.0 m
7470.4 m 535.0 m
7538.4 m 535.0 m
7574.2 m 530.0 m
7587.4 m 530.0 m
7631.0 m 535.0 m
7683.3 m 540.0 m
7732.6 m 545.0 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: 19 legs from North West Escarpment Break, 7796.8 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 Official spatial — evidence class

    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

  • Leg 1: 2468154 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    411.0 m at 89.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2468154 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1556.8 m at 116.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1874094 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    316.7 m at 0.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1874094 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1874132 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    37.9 m at 56.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1874132 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 1874170 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    549.2 m at 41.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1874170 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 1876032 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    28.5 m at 12.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1876032 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 1876070 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    132.2 m at 30.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1876070 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 1982470 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    11.5 m at 26.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1982470 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 755447 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    78.5 m at 25.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 755447 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 599229 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    79.0 m at 112.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 599229 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    312.8 m at 101.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 625221 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    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 official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 627729 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    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 statutory_inference

  • Leg 14: 1977834 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    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 official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    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 official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    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 official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 1681973 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    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 official_spatial

  • Leg 18: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    966.0 m at 280.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 19: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1213.4 m at 253.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 441NPW909 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
Hendersons Knob, Tamborine National Park
Lot on plan
441NPW909
Coordinates
-27.91889, 153.16028 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
point