Public Trails Computed from official land records

Somerset Official spatial — evidence class · Somerset · QLD

Bonney Gully

Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it

Gazetted name -27.11667, 152.51667 Deer Reserve National Park · National Park watercourse

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

Public land — inside Deer Reserve National Park. No published track reaches it — the lawful ground to it is a chain of parcels.

Being at this point is lawful on the records below. Getting there is a separate question, answered route by route — and each route carries its own verdict and its own caveats.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

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

What this place is A definition, then the record

A watercourse — the channel a creek or river runs in, named at one coordinate along a length that may run for kilometres. Whether there is water in it is not recorded, and neither is whether its bed may be walked — that is a question about the land the channel crosses, answered on this site by the tenure chain rather than by the name.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Bonney Gully. The layer maps far more creeks than it has ever named, so that is a gap in the record rather than dry ground.

The point falls inside Deer Reserve National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is mafic volcanic rock, mapped as Neara Volcanics (Rtn) , middle triassic in age. The survey describes it as: Volcaniclastic conglomerate; andesite, sandstone Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 100% — Eucalyptus tereticornis, Corymbia intermedia, E. crebra +/- Lophostemon suaveolens woodland on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.12 · Of concern Official spatial — evidence class

On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "Bonney Gully" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 207NPW756 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Somerset, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate Deer Reserve National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 3,228 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 2 Jun 2006; first gazetted 3 Apr 2001; no encumbrance recorded. Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse No named watercourse in the snapshot runs within range of this point. The layer maps many creeks it has never named. —
Feature Recorded as a watercourse in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Bonney Gully and the starts of the 2 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

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.

Is there a track to it No published way within range

No vetted way the managing authority publishes comes within range of this point. That is a fact about the access record, not about the ground: an unmapped pad may well exist, and this site will not invent one on the strength of that.

Approaches — one page each 2 computed from lawful entry candidates

Bonney Gully from Bonney Gully Break

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class bonney-gully--from-bonney-gully-break
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1809.8 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Bonney Gully from Cooeeimbardi Road

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class bonney-gully--from-cooeeimbardi-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
4171.7 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Jinibara People — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. Official spatial — evidence class

A cultural heritage party boundary and a native title claim are different legal things. This page never conflates them, and it publishes neither as a permission.

All land and waters in Queensland carry a duty of care under s.23 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) — including here. Cultural heritage site locations are restricted by law (ss.38–46), deliberately, for site protection. This site holds party boundaries only and will never republish site locations. Check the public register and, where in doubt, seek guidance from the Aboriginal party for the area.

Searching a register does not of itself satisfy the duty of care.

Rules here — derived from tenure National Park · statutory inference

This point sits on protected estate. In Queensland that ordinarily means no dogs or pets, no open fires outside provided facilities, no camping outside designated areas, no drones without authority, and nothing taken. These follow from the tenure and the legislation that governs it — they are statutory inference, not a copy of a sign.

Statutes relied on: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld) and its regulations for protected estate; Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 for watercourse beds; Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) ss.23 and 38–46 for the duty of care and for why site locations are never republished here.

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Bonney Gully, Deer Reserve National Park
Lot on plan
207NPW756
Coordinates
-27.11667, 152.51667 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this place was read from