Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Bluegum Creek (South Branch)

Bluegum Creek (South Branch) from minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

entry is a track 0 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class bluegum-creek-south-branch--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service-5

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 -26.84185, 152.97182

That is minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service), where the walk below begins — 1.5 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.

-26.84185, 152.97182

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 Protected estate 561AP22457 nothing mapped 574.4 m 225.7° SW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Protected estate 561AP22457 nothing mapped 966.6 m 248.9° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1541.0 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 No published way to follow

at least half an hour out and back

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

0 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

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 1477.2 m · height 25.0 to 25.0 m Read off an unstated interval along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
0.0 m
Total descent
0.0 m
Steepest sustained
0.0% over 54.0 m
Contour interval
not stated by the layer
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
6.1 m 25.0 m
739.3 m 25.0 m
743.5 m 25.0 m
745.0 m 25.0 m
749.9 m 25.0 m
760.5 m 25.0 m
803.9 m 25.0 m
1198.1 m 25.0 m
1209.3 m 25.0 m
1477.2 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 an unstated interval cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 2 legs from minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service), 1541.0 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 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: 561AP22457 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    574.4 m at 225.7°. 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 2: 561AP22457 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    966.6 m at 248.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 561AP22457 Grade official_spatial

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Bluegum Creek (South Branch), Beerwah State Forest
Lot on plan
561AP22457
Coordinates
-26.84861, 152.95861 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from