Public Trails Computed from official land records

Somerset · Moonarrumbi Creek

Moonarrumbi Creek from minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

entry is a track chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class moonarrumbi-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service

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

A lawful approach from minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service).

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 -26.54841, 152.28019

That is minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service), where the walk below begins — 247 m 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.

-26.54841, 152.28019

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 Track minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service) nothing mapped 247.0 m 327.8° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 247.0 m Chain confidence Official spatial — 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.

Following it on the ground Every step ends at something you can check

under a quarter hour out and back

at least under a quarter hour there at least under a quarter 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

The way passes this place Official spatial — evidence class

The nearest published way passes 47 m from the recorded point. The contour layer does not cover this ground, so the height between the two is unmeasured — and an unmeasured gap is never read as no gap.

The way comes close enough to be a way to this place without the record establishing that it ends at it. A register gives a feature one coordinate and a feature is not a point, so the two measurements above are the whole of the claim: how far off the way passes, and what height separates the two. Nothing here says the last of that gap can be crossed. The walk below runs along the surveyed way and ends on it. Leaving it to close the rest of the gap is not something any record here describes, and this page does not suggest it.

  1. Follow the way for 191 m, setting off NW (324°), to where it crosses Cowwah Creek.

    Back: 144° along the way, 191 m from the start.

  2. Follow the way for 56 m, setting off NNW (341°), to arrive.

    Back: 161° along the way, 247 m from the start.

247 m in total, along the way the managing authority publishes. The record carries no name for it, so the steps above say only “the way” rather than guessing one. Every step above ends at something the records let you check on the ground. Bearings are true, not magnetic: they match a phone compass with no conversion. In this part of Queensland a magnetic bezel reads about 11° east of them, so an analogue compass needs that taken off before you set it.

What each step ends at, and why Official spatial — evidence class
watercourse
A named watercourse crossing, from the official watercourse layer.
destination
The place itself, which is always where the last step ends.

A cadastral parcel boundary is never one of them. It is invisible on the ground, so a step that ended at one could never be checked — however convenient it looks in the data.

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: 1 legs from minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service), 247.0 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 Elgin Vale State Forest Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 673AP23889, recorded tenure "State Forest". 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: minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service) carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    247.0 m at 327.8°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service) Grade official_spatial

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Moonarrumbi Creek, Elgin Vale State Forest
Lot on plan
673AP23889
Coordinates
-26.54694, 152.27861 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

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