Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Bulls Forehead

Bulls Forehead from Panorama Drive

entry is a road 45 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class bulls-forehead--from-panorama-drive

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

A lawful approach from Panorama Drive, 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 -26.62262, 152.98425

That is Panorama Drive, where the walk below begins — 2.3 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.

-26.62262, 152.98425

An ordinary car reaches the start The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as trafficable by an ordinary vehicle.

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 429339 nothing mapped 27.7 m 65.9° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 431543 nothing mapped 183.3 m 92.8° E Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 2272258 nothing mapped 263.9 m 325.8° NW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 376747 nothing mapped 227.3 m 314.5° NW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 376709 nothing mapped 163.9 m 13.3° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 375683 nothing mapped 137.0 m 328.5° NNW Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Road reserve 273501 nothing mapped 159.0 m 331.2° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 273425 nothing mapped 681.5 m 312.4° NW Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 273197 nothing mapped 116.4 m 313.6° NW Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 277035 nothing mapped 297.4 m 316.9° NW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 2257.4 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 376747 and 375683 is 23.46 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 376709 and 273501 is 15.89 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

at least 1 hour out and back

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

45 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

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 2244.8 m · height 5.0 to 50.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
45.0 m
Total descent
10.0 m
Steepest sustained
19.9% over 50.2 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
61.7 m 15.0 m
88.5 m 10.0 m
203.2 m 10.0 m
220.3 m 10.0 m
337.6 m 10.0 m
464.1 m 10.0 m
481.8 m 10.0 m
619.4 m 10.0 m
679.9 m 5.0 m
1012.7 m 5.0 m
1849.6 m 10.0 m
1879.4 m 15.0 m
1967.8 m 20.0 m
2065.0 m 25.0 m
2093.5 m 30.0 m
2124.4 m 35.0 m
2143.6 m 40.0 m
2169.9 m 45.0 m
2244.8 m 50.0 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 Panorama Drive, 2257.4 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 the parcel below

    Parcel not resolved, recorded tenure "unresolved". 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: 429339 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    27.7 m at 65.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 429339 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 431543 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    183.3 m at 92.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 431543 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 2272258 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    263.9 m at 325.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2272258 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 376747 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    227.3 m at 314.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 376747 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 376709 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    163.9 m at 13.3°. 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 376709 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 375683 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    137.0 m at 328.5°. 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 375683 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 273501 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    159.0 m at 331.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 273501 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 273425 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    681.5 m at 312.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 273425 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 273197 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    116.4 m at 313.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 273197 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 277035 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    297.4 m at 316.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 277035 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
Bulls Forehead
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-26.60861, 152.97417 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
hill

What this approach was read from