Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Bellbird Creek

Bellbird Creek from Clarkes Road

entry is a road 55 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class bellbird-creek-2171--from-clarkes-road

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

A lawful approach from Clarkes 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 -26.84177, 152.95738

That is Clarkes Road, where the walk below begins — 9.9 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.

-26.84177, 152.95738

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 1578375 nothing mapped 449.5 m 293.3° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1573055 nothing mapped 1315.2 m 298.6° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1573017 nothing mapped 904.9 m 199.0° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 4749733 nothing mapped 379.4 m 175.8° S Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 4731417 nothing mapped 42.3 m 180.9° S Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 4727123 nothing mapped 980.9 m 176.9° S Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 1401181 nothing mapped 29.8 m 189.2° S Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 4727275 nothing mapped 152.1 m 188.3° S Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 3256789 nothing mapped 337.1 m 153.1° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
10 Watercourse bed 3288519 nothing mapped 1723.5 m 121.5° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
11 Watercourse bed 1130207 nothing mapped 560.1 m 88.2° E Statutory inference — evidence class
12 Road reserve 1122493 nothing mapped 320.7 m 11.7° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 2190743 nothing mapped 139.6 m 341.0° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 2179039 nothing mapped 79.6 m 341.7° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 2178317 nothing mapped 424.6 m 358.9° N Official spatial — evidence class
16 Road reserve 2180141 Mawhinney Street open 30.0 m 342.6° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
17 Road reserve 2193897 nothing mapped 96.8 m 25.7° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
18 Protected estate 561AP22457 nothing mapped 1173.8 m 7.0° N Official spatial — evidence class
19 Protected estate 2AP23777 nothing mapped 768.7 m 132.2° SE Official spatial — evidence class
Total 30.0 m mapped 9908.6 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 3256789 and 1130207 is 1337.91 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3288519 and 1122493 is 551.57 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No steps, but the record maps ground here

at least 4 hours out and back

at least 2 hours there at least 2 hours back

55 m up and 70 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 70 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

What is mapped along this chain

A managing authority has surveyed a way along 30 m of this 9909 m chain — about 0% of it. That is a statement about what is on the ground, not about your right to be there, which the parcels above already settled, and not a direction: no step below is measured along any of these ways.

  • Leg 16 Mawhinney Street Official spatial — evidence class

    30 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Local Government Authority).

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 9903.8 m · height 20.0 to 60.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
55.0 m
Total descent
70.0 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
31.6 m 35.0 m
32.5 m 35.0 m
33.4 m 35.0 m
230.3 m 40.0 m
502.5 m 45.0 m
698.4 m 45.0 m
701.1 m 45.0 m
1036.4 m 45.0 m
1127.2 m 45.0 m
1242.4 m 45.0 m
1422.0 m 45.0 m
1516.3 m 50.0 m
1571.6 m 55.0 m
1618.9 m 60.0 m
1773.7 m 60.0 m
1817.7 m 55.0 m
1897.5 m 55.0 m
1914.4 m 55.0 m
1980.2 m 50.0 m
2052.9 m 45.0 m
2083.5 m 45.0 m
2163.2 m 50.0 m
2165.0 m 50.0 m
2165.6 m 50.0 m
2231.7 m 50.0 m
2400.8 m 45.0 m
2652.0 m 40.0 m
2654.6 m 40.0 m
2975.7 m 45.0 m
2990.3 m 45.0 m
3011.7 m 45.0 m
3232.9 m 45.0 m
3268.3 m 45.0 m
3445.0 m 45.0 m
3445.3 m 45.0 m
3447.3 m 45.0 m
3469.3 m 45.0 m
3492.4 m 45.0 m
3494.8 m 45.0 m
3495.4 m 45.0 m
3498.2 m 45.0 m
3742.7 m 45.0 m
3803.7 m 40.0 m
3803.9 m 40.0 m
3806.3 m 40.0 m
3917.5 m 40.0 m
4113.5 m 40.0 m
4167.5 m 35.0 m
4201.4 m 30.0 m
4601.3 m 25.0 m
4631.2 m 25.0 m
4656.9 m 25.0 m
4687.7 m 25.0 m
4709.3 m 30.0 m
4754.6 m 30.0 m
4837.2 m 25.0 m
4878.4 m 25.0 m
4885.2 m 25.0 m
4890.7 m 25.0 m
4911.2 m 25.0 m
4928.8 m 25.0 m
5058.4 m 25.0 m
5067.5 m 25.0 m
5138.8 m 25.0 m
5243.4 m 25.0 m
5270.0 m 25.0 m
5288.1 m 25.0 m
5300.4 m 25.0 m
5318.8 m 25.0 m
5957.8 m 25.0 m
5987.6 m 25.0 m
6022.0 m 25.0 m
6044.0 m 25.0 m
6071.9 m 25.0 m
6114.0 m 25.0 m
6119.7 m 25.0 m
6210.6 m 25.0 m
6241.8 m 25.0 m
6303.5 m 20.0 m
6326.5 m 20.0 m
6333.2 m 20.0 m
6364.4 m 20.0 m
6567.0 m 20.0 m
6598.3 m 20.0 m
6606.1 m 25.0 m
6614.9 m 25.0 m
6622.6 m 20.0 m
6638.1 m 20.0 m
6802.0 m 20.0 m
6946.6 m 20.0 m
6974.0 m 25.0 m
7201.6 m 25.0 m
7214.8 m 25.0 m
7221.9 m 25.0 m
7248.3 m 25.0 m
7304.6 m 30.0 m
7314.5 m 30.0 m
7338.3 m 30.0 m
7596.3 m 30.0 m
8161.3 m 25.0 m
8335.8 m 25.0 m
8597.7 m 25.0 m
8999.6 m 25.0 m
9002.6 m 25.0 m
9005.8 m 25.0 m
9368.0 m 25.0 m
9375.2 m 25.0 m
9378.3 m 25.0 m
9381.2 m 25.0 m
9388.2 m 25.0 m
9858.5 m 20.0 m
9862.9 m 20.0 m
9903.8 m 20.0 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: 19 legs from Clarkes Road, 9908.6 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 Glass House Mountains Conservation Park Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 2AP23777, 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: 1578375 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    449.5 m at 293.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1578375 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1573055 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1315.2 m at 298.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1573055 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1573017 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    904.9 m at 199.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1573017 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 4749733 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    379.4 m at 175.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 4749733 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 4731417 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    42.3 m at 180.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 4731417 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 4727123 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    980.9 m at 176.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 4727123 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 1401181 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    29.8 m at 189.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1401181 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 4727275 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    152.1 m at 188.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 4727275 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 3256789 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    337.1 m at 153.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 3256789 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 3288519 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1723.5 m at 121.5°. 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 3288519 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 11: 1130207 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    560.1 m at 88.2°. 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 1130207 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 12: 1122493 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    320.7 m at 11.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1122493 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 2190743 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    139.6 m at 341.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2190743 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 2179039 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    79.6 m at 341.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2179039 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 2178317 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    424.6 m at 358.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2178317 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 2180141 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    30.0 m at 342.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2180141 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 2193897 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    96.8 m at 25.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2193897 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 18: 561AP22457 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1173.8 m at 7.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 561AP22457 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 19: 2AP23777 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    768.7 m at 132.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2AP23777 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
Bellbird Creek, Glass House Mountains Conservation Park
Lot on plan
2AP23777
Coordinates
-26.85170, 152.96850 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from