Public Trails Computed from official land records

Scenic Rim · Hendersons Knob

Hendersons Knob from Waterfall Break

entry is a track 370 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class hendersons-knob--from-waterfall-break

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

A lawful approach from Waterfall 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 -27.91135, 153.17209

That is Waterfall Break, where the walk below begins — 1.8 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.

-27.91135, 153.17209

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 66.6 m 266.1° W Official spatial — evidence class
2 Watercourse bed 1684177 nothing mapped 172.9 m 145.3° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
3 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 351.1 m 184.9° S Official spatial — evidence class
4 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 1213.4 m 253.8° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1804.0 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

  • 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 441NPW909 and 441NPW909 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

at least 1½ hours out and back

at least 1 hour there at least half an hour back

370 m up and 85 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 85 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 1739.7 m · height 245.0 to 550.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
370.0 m
Total descent
85.0 m
Steepest sustained
109.6% over 50.2 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
4.7 m 260.0 m
12.4 m 255.0 m
22.9 m 250.0 m
38.1 m 245.0 m
50.4 m 245.0 m
61.0 m 250.0 m
70.2 m 255.0 m
80.5 m 260.0 m
97.2 m 260.0 m
101.7 m 255.0 m
131.0 m 255.0 m
144.6 m 260.0 m
178.5 m 265.0 m
184.5 m 265.0 m
185.9 m 265.0 m
200.4 m 270.0 m
217.5 m 275.0 m
231.2 m 280.0 m
246.8 m 285.0 m
262.3 m 290.0 m
273.8 m 295.0 m
283.3 m 300.0 m
294.6 m 305.0 m
308.3 m 310.0 m
315.0 m 315.0 m
321.1 m 320.0 m
324.7 m 325.0 m
328.2 m 330.0 m
332.5 m 335.0 m
338.6 m 340.0 m
345.2 m 345.0 m
349.7 m 350.0 m
354.3 m 355.0 m
358.5 m 360.0 m
362.6 m 365.0 m
366.6 m 370.0 m
371.3 m 375.0 m
376.9 m 380.0 m
383.7 m 385.0 m
391.7 m 390.0 m
400.0 m 395.0 m
408.4 m 400.0 m
420.6 m 405.0 m
431.2 m 410.0 m
439.1 m 415.0 m
449.9 m 420.0 m
454.2 m 425.0 m
457.8 m 430.0 m
462.3 m 435.0 m
473.0 m 440.0 m
492.7 m 445.0 m
511.8 m 450.0 m
520.4 m 455.0 m
526.3 m 460.0 m
540.7 m 465.0 m
555.6 m 470.0 m
566.9 m 475.0 m
624.1 m 480.0 m
643.3 m 485.0 m
656.7 m 490.0 m
674.0 m 495.0 m
685.8 m 500.0 m
707.2 m 505.0 m
709.9 m 510.0 m
720.0 m 515.0 m
729.2 m 520.0 m
742.0 m 525.0 m
763.1 m 530.0 m
793.9 m 535.0 m
814.1 m 540.0 m
830.1 m 545.0 m
853.9 m 550.0 m
893.3 m 550.0 m
940.6 m 545.0 m
962.2 m 540.0 m
969.2 m 535.0 m
1023.5 m 530.0 m
1048.2 m 525.0 m
1075.0 m 520.0 m
1092.2 m 520.0 m
1110.8 m 520.0 m
1126.7 m 515.0 m
1142.7 m 510.0 m
1156.6 m 505.0 m
1170.1 m 500.0 m
1189.3 m 495.0 m
1332.8 m 490.0 m
1367.7 m 490.0 m
1390.7 m 495.0 m
1399.9 m 500.0 m
1407.4 m 505.0 m
1416.0 m 510.0 m
1432.3 m 515.0 m
1442.0 m 520.0 m
1450.7 m 525.0 m
1461.3 m 530.0 m
1477.6 m 535.0 m
1545.5 m 535.0 m
1581.3 m 530.0 m
1594.5 m 530.0 m
1638.1 m 535.0 m
1690.4 m 540.0 m
1739.7 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: 4 legs from Waterfall Break, 1804.0 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: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    66.6 m at 266.1°. 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 2: 1684177 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    172.9 m at 145.3°. 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 1684177 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 3: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    351.1 m at 184.9°. 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 4: 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