Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Bluegum Creek (North Branch)

Bluegum Creek (North Branch) from Roys Road

entry is a road 5 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class bluegum-creek-north-branch--from-roys-road

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

A lawful approach from Roys 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 -26.86356, 152.96246

That is Roys Road, where the walk below begins — 2.6 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.

-26.86356, 152.96246

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 2181813 nothing mapped 32.7 m 201.4° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1122493 nothing mapped 75.0 m 226.4° SW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 2190743 nothing mapped 139.6 m 341.0° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 2179039 nothing mapped 79.6 m 341.7° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 2178317 nothing mapped 424.6 m 358.9° N Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 2180141 Mawhinney Street open 30.0 m 342.6° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 2193897 nothing mapped 96.8 m 25.7° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
8 Protected estate 561AP22457 nothing mapped 1173.8 m 7.0° N Official spatial — evidence class
9 Protected estate 2AP23777 nothing mapped 249.0 m 284.6° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
10 Protected estate 561AP22457 nothing mapped 293.3 m 216.0° SW Official spatial — evidence class
Total 30.0 m mapped 2594.4 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.

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.

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

at least 1 hour out and back

at least half an hour there at least half an hour back

5 m up and 10 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 10 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 2594 m chain — about 1% 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 6 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 2559.3 m · height 25.0 to 30.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
5.0 m
Total descent
10.0 m
Steepest sustained
8.9% over 56.3 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
56.3 m 30.0 m
113.8 m 25.0 m
127.0 m 25.0 m
134.1 m 25.0 m
160.5 m 25.0 m
216.8 m 30.0 m
226.6 m 30.0 m
250.5 m 30.0 m
508.5 m 30.0 m
1073.4 m 25.0 m
1248.0 m 25.0 m
1509.9 m 25.0 m
1911.8 m 25.0 m
1914.8 m 25.0 m
1917.9 m 25.0 m
2550.4 m 25.0 m
2552.8 m 25.0 m
2559.3 m 25.0 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: 10 legs from Roys Road, 2594.4 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 Beerwah State Forest Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 561AP22457, 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: 2181813 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    32.7 m at 201.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2181813 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1122493 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    75.0 m at 226.4°. 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 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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 9: 2AP23777 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    249.0 m at 284.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2AP23777 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 561AP22457 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    293.3 m at 216.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 561AP22457 Grade official_spatial

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Official spatial — 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
Bluegum Creek (North Branch), Beerwah State Forest
Lot on plan
561AP22457
Coordinates
-26.84861, 152.95861 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from