Public Trails Computed from official land records

Somerset · Byron Gully

Byron Gully from Stirlings Road

entry is a road chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class byron-gully--from-stirlings-road

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

A lawful approach from Stirlings 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 -27.13781, 152.65867

That is Stirlings Road, where the walk below begins — 4.5 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.

-27.13781, 152.65867

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 750048 nothing mapped 647.9 m 239.3° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Watercourse bed 751492 nothing mapped 1525.8 m 292.7° WNW Statutory inference — evidence class
3 Road reserve 754646 nothing mapped 553.3 m 5.7° N Official spatial — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 754532 nothing mapped 107.1 m 39.3° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 752860 nothing mapped 1597.3 m 69.3° ENE Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Road reserve 3544073 nothing mapped 27.3 m 25.8° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 4458.7 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 750048 and 754646 is 1438.35 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 754646 and 752860 is 77.40 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 754532 and 3544073 is 999.19 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

at least 2 hours out and back

at least 1 hour there at least 1 hour back

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track. The climb on this route could not be measured, so the figure is flat-ground time and the real walk is longer.

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 No contour cover along this line

No profile is published for this route. The contour layer does not cross its line often enough to describe a climb, and a profile drawn from anything else would be a guess about the ground.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 6 legs from Stirlings Road, 4458.7 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 87S311820, recorded tenure "Freehold". 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: 750048 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    647.9 m at 239.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 750048 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 751492 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1525.8 m at 292.7°. 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 751492 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 3: 754646 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    553.3 m at 5.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 754646 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 754532 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    107.1 m at 39.3°. 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 754532 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 752860 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1597.3 m at 69.3°. 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 752860 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 3544073 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    27.3 m at 25.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3544073 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
Byron Gully
Lot on plan
87S311820
Coordinates
-27.12444, 152.65528 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from