Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Blackall Range

Blackall Range from Horse Trail Network

entry is a track 105 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class blackall-range--from-horse-trail-network

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

A lawful approach from Horse Trail Network.

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 -26.61301, 152.87728

That is Horse Trail Network, where the walk below begins — 891 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.

-26.61301, 152.87728

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 Horse Trail Network nothing mapped 200.7 m 281.1° W Official spatial — evidence class
2 Track Palm Break nothing mapped 689.8 m 339.7° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 890.5 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

at least three quarters of an hour out and back

at least half an hour there at least a quarter of an hour back

105 m up and 0 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 0 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

The way reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

Horse Trail Network passes 11 m from the recorded point. The gap crosses no contour, which is as level as this layer can evidence — not a survey saying the ground is flat.

Both gaps are small enough that the way is a way to this place, not merely one near it.

  1. Follow Horse Trail Network for 203 m, setting off WNW (282°), to the junction with Palm Break.

    Back: 102° along Horse Trail Network, 203 m from the start.

  2. Follow Horse Trail Network for 90 m, setting off NNW (346°), to the junction with Palm Break.

    Back: 166° along Horse Trail Network, 293 m from the start.

  3. Follow Horse Trail Network for 80 m, setting off NNW (331°), to the junction with Palm Break.

    Back: 151° along Horse Trail Network, 373 m from the start.

  4. Follow Horse Trail Network for 91 m, setting off NNW (330°), to the junction with Palm Break.

    Back: 150° along Horse Trail Network, 464 m from the start.

  5. Follow Horse Trail Network for 89 m, setting off NNW (340°), to the junction with Palm Break.

    Back: 160° along Horse Trail Network, 553 m from the start.

  6. Follow Horse Trail Network for 83 m, setting off NNW (332°), to the junction with Palm Break.

    Back: 152° along Horse Trail Network, 636 m from the start.

  7. Follow Horse Trail Network for 104 m, setting off NNW (337°), to the junction with another published way.

    Back: 157° along Horse Trail Network, 740 m from the start.

  8. Follow Horse Trail Network for 83 m, setting off N (354°), to the junction with Palm Break.

    Back: 174° along Horse Trail Network, 823 m from the start.

  9. Follow Horse Trail Network for 68 m, setting off N (352°), to arrive.

    Back: 172° along Horse Trail Network, 891 m from the start.

891 m in total, along the way the managing authority publishes. 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
junction
A junction with another published way. Unmissable on the ground, and the place a wrong turn happens.
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 Read off the published contour layer

Distance along the route, 0 to 821.3 m · height 260.0 to 365.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
105.0 m
Total descent
0.0 m
Steepest sustained
42.0% over 59.5 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
23.0 m 260.0 m
43.9 m 265.0 m
59.7 m 270.0 m
71.5 m 275.0 m
82.9 m 280.0 m
95.4 m 285.0 m
107.6 m 290.0 m
119.2 m 295.0 m
132.3 m 300.0 m
143.7 m 305.0 m
155.0 m 310.0 m
168.5 m 315.0 m
184.3 m 320.0 m
225.0 m 325.0 m
268.2 m 330.0 m
304.5 m 335.0 m
342.9 m 340.0 m
376.5 m 345.0 m
494.8 m 350.0 m
551.8 m 355.0 m
777.0 m 360.0 m
821.3 m 365.0 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: 2 legs from Horse Trail Network, 890.5 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 Mapleton National Park Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 1239NPW1106, 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: Horse Trail Network carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    200.7 m at 281.1°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Horse Trail Network Grade official_spatial

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

    689.8 m at 339.7°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Palm Break Grade official_spatial

If something goes wrong

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Location
Blackall Range, Mapleton National Park
Lot on plan
1239NPW1106
Coordinates
-26.60702, 152.87286 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
range

What this approach was read from