Public Trails Computed from official land records

Somerset · Chasewater Creek

Chasewater Creek from Selwyn Road

entry is a road 150 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class chasewater-creek--from-selwyn-road

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

A lawful approach from Selwyn 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 -27.27143, 152.42320

That is Selwyn Road, where the walk below begins — 13.2 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.

-27.27143, 152.42320

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 651286 nothing mapped 510.7 m 75.5° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 651400 nothing mapped 626.5 m 323.9° NW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 652958 nothing mapped 2404.2 m 103.3° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 659494 nothing mapped 20.7 m 98.1° E Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 661318 nothing mapped 788.7 m 97.2° E Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 659570 nothing mapped 338.5 m 10.6° N Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 660900 nothing mapped 422.1 m 9.8° N Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 656644 nothing mapped 20.1 m 8.2° N Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 653528 nothing mapped 1440.3 m 7.1° N Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 653604 nothing mapped 805.5 m 276.8° W Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 653224 nothing mapped 808.8 m 287.1° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 653034 nothing mapped 892.4 m 280.6° W Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 802184 nothing mapped 797.6 m 289.8° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 802146 nothing mapped 141.2 m 200.5° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 799752 nothing mapped 204.1 m 269.6° W Official spatial — evidence class
16 Road reserve 799600 nothing mapped 29.5 m 278.1° W Official spatial — evidence class
17 Road reserve 797548 nothing mapped 181.1 m 278.1° W Official spatial — evidence class
18 Road reserve 797244 nothing mapped 61.0 m 206.4° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
19 Watercourse bed 806554 nothing mapped 95.3 m 212.8° SSW Statutory inference — evidence class
20 Road reserve 802336 nothing mapped 66.6 m 218.7° SW Official spatial — evidence class
21 Watercourse bed 650488 nothing mapped 2574.9 m 186.9° S Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 13229.8 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 797244 and 802336 is 34.74 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The gap between the parcels either side of this crossing could not be measured from the geometry, which is a reason for more caution, not less.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

at least 6 hours out and back

at least 3 hours there at least 3 hours back

150 m up and 175 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 175 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 13227.8 m · height 85.0 to 200.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
150.0 m
Total descent
175.0 m
Steepest sustained
11.4% over 88.0 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
26.4 m 145.0 m
218.0 m 150.0 m
352.5 m 155.0 m
478.2 m 160.0 m
483.2 m 160.0 m
486.5 m 160.0 m
528.1 m 160.0 m
613.0 m 155.0 m
779.7 m 150.0 m
958.1 m 145.0 m
1025.3 m 140.0 m
1101.4 m 135.0 m
1195.2 m 135.0 m
1382.5 m 140.0 m
1483.2 m 145.0 m
1619.1 m 150.0 m
1746.0 m 155.0 m
1869.2 m 160.0 m
1960.6 m 165.0 m
2071.0 m 170.0 m
2181.6 m 175.0 m
2319.1 m 180.0 m
2409.0 m 185.0 m
2482.9 m 190.0 m
2543.4 m 195.0 m
2583.7 m 200.0 m
2652.1 m 200.0 m
2756.7 m 195.0 m
2892.4 m 190.0 m
2958.5 m 190.0 m
3069.6 m 190.0 m
5007.3 m 130.0 m
5061.2 m 130.0 m
5066.3 m 130.0 m
5189.6 m 125.0 m
5259.7 m 120.0 m
5326.9 m 115.0 m
5386.5 m 110.0 m
5414.9 m 105.0 m
5416.6 m 105.0 m
5431.9 m 105.0 m
5445.5 m 105.0 m
5575.0 m 105.0 m
5760.1 m 100.0 m
5920.3 m 95.0 m
6086.9 m 90.0 m
6348.7 m 85.0 m
6611.1 m 85.0 m
6671.3 m 90.0 m
6762.4 m 95.0 m
7095.5 m 95.0 m
7147.9 m 90.0 m
7203.3 m 90.0 m
7219.4 m 90.0 m
7272.9 m 90.0 m
7421.0 m 95.0 m
7592.8 m 100.0 m
8034.0 m 105.0 m
8326.6 m 105.0 m
8336.1 m 105.0 m
8451.7 m 110.0 m
8533.4 m 115.0 m
8594.4 m 120.0 m
8669.5 m 125.0 m
8748.5 m 125.0 m
8757.4 m 125.0 m
8783.6 m 130.0 m
8926.3 m 135.0 m
8944.9 m 135.0 m
8951.2 m 135.0 m
9131.8 m 135.0 m
9137.6 m 135.0 m
9442.0 m 135.0 m
9577.8 m 130.0 m
9685.8 m 125.0 m
9790.4 m 120.0 m
9985.7 m 120.0 m
10106.1 m 120.0 m
10294.9 m 115.0 m
10495.3 m 110.0 m
10567.5 m 110.0 m
10640.3 m 110.0 m
10640.6 m 110.0 m
10946.4 m 110.0 m
10949.5 m 110.0 m
11126.1 m 115.0 m
11893.9 m 115.0 m
11957.2 m 115.0 m
12135.9 m 120.0 m
12317.4 m 125.0 m
12494.2 m 125.0 m
12649.3 m 120.0 m
12653.0 m 120.0 m
12753.5 m 120.0 m
12768.7 m 120.0 m
12810.3 m 120.0 m
12936.2 m 120.0 m
12964.8 m 120.0 m
13039.1 m 120.0 m
13142.4 m 120.0 m
13152.4 m 120.0 m
13211.3 m 120.0 m
13227.8 m 120.0 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: 21 legs from Selwyn Road, 13229.8 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 the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 1RP20885, 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: 651286 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    510.7 m at 75.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 651286 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 651400 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    626.5 m at 323.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 651400 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 652958 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    2404.2 m at 103.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 652958 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 659494 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.7 m at 98.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 659494 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 661318 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    788.7 m at 97.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 661318 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 659570 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    338.5 m at 10.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 659570 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 660900 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    422.1 m at 9.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 660900 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 656644 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.1 m at 8.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 656644 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 653528 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1440.3 m at 7.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 653528 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 653604 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    805.5 m at 276.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 653604 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 653224 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    808.8 m at 287.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 653224 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 653034 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    892.4 m at 280.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 653034 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 802184 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    797.6 m at 289.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 802184 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 802146 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    141.2 m at 200.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 802146 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 799752 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    204.1 m at 269.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 799752 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 799600 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    29.5 m at 278.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 799600 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 797548 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    181.1 m at 278.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 797548 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 18: 797244 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    61.0 m at 206.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 797244 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 19: 806554 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    95.3 m at 212.8°. 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 806554 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 20: 802336 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    66.6 m at 218.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 802336 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 21: 650488 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    2574.9 m at 186.9°. 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 650488 Grade statutory_inference

  • 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
Chasewater Creek
Lot on plan
1RP20885
Coordinates
-27.27056, 152.41806 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from