Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Coochin

Coochin from minimally formed natural track off Old Gympie Road

entry is a track 470 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class coochin--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-old-gympie-road

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

A lawful approach from minimally formed natural track off Old Gympie 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 -26.87842, 152.91834

That is minimally formed natural track off Old Gympie Road, where the walk below begins — 8.4 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.

-26.87842, 152.91834

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 1560591 Old Gympie Road open 437.8 m 204.1° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1559603 Watson Road open 444.0 m 278.9° W Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1562339 Palmer Road open 19.4 m 280.1° W Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 1562833 nothing mapped 60.2 m 279.0° W Official spatial — evidence class
5 Protected estate 766AP23886 nothing mapped 932.1 m 259.8° W Official spatial — evidence class
6 Protected estate 2AP23886 nothing mapped 923.6 m 317.6° NW Official spatial — evidence class
7 Protected estate 1AP23774 nothing mapped 750.3 m 14.2° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 1559147 nothing mapped 511.9 m 52.6° NE Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 1559223 nothing mapped 392.1 m 93.1° E Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 1559375 nothing mapped 1779.8 m 92.9° E Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 1559071 an unnamed formed sealed open 64.2 m 119.3° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 1570623 nothing mapped 77.9 m 100.9° E Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 1570661 nothing mapped 228.2 m 161.7° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 1572523 nothing mapped 166.4 m 98.6° E Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 1572181 nothing mapped 33.2 m 98.6° E Official spatial — evidence class
16 Road reserve 1564999 nothing mapped 879.3 m 92.2° E Official spatial — evidence class
17 Protected estate 127NPW725 nothing mapped 659.3 m 319.9° NW Official spatial — evidence class
Total 877.6 m mapped 8359.7 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 4¾ hours out and back

at least 2½ hours there at least 2¼ hours back

470 m up and 300 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 300 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 878 m of this 8360 m chain — about 10% 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 1 Old Gympie Road Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • Leg 2 Watson Road Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • Leg 3 Palmer Road Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • Leg 11 an unnamed formed sealed Official spatial — evidence class

    46 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public .

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 8353.1 m · height 35.0 to 225.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
470.0 m
Total descent
300.0 m
Steepest sustained
73.7% over 54.3 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
88.0 m 55.0 m
299.8 m 55.0 m
527.5 m 50.0 m
589.1 m 45.0 m
677.8 m 45.0 m
725.7 m 50.0 m
786.2 m 55.0 m
879.8 m 55.0 m
966.2 m 50.0 m
1183.2 m 50.0 m
1185.4 m 50.0 m
1191.5 m 50.0 m
1193.1 m 50.0 m
1194.6 m 50.0 m
1196.6 m 50.0 m
1197.1 m 50.0 m
1222.8 m 50.0 m
1445.0 m 50.0 m
1528.3 m 50.0 m
1539.1 m 50.0 m
1721.9 m 55.0 m
1790.3 m 60.0 m
1848.7 m 65.0 m
2000.3 m 70.0 m
2030.9 m 75.0 m
2065.9 m 80.0 m
2095.1 m 80.0 m
2132.4 m 75.0 m
2204.1 m 75.0 m
2232.3 m 80.0 m
2255.4 m 85.0 m
2267.1 m 90.0 m
2276.4 m 95.0 m
2287.6 m 100.0 m
2296.5 m 105.0 m
2305.3 m 110.0 m
2315.3 m 115.0 m
2326.1 m 120.0 m
2338.6 m 125.0 m
2356.3 m 130.0 m
2370.7 m 130.0 m
2387.5 m 125.0 m
2400.9 m 120.0 m
2411.9 m 115.0 m
2414.5 m 115.0 m
2422.3 m 120.0 m
2433.2 m 125.0 m
2445.5 m 130.0 m
2476.3 m 130.0 m
2504.8 m 130.0 m
2514.7 m 135.0 m
2519.7 m 140.0 m
2531.7 m 145.0 m
2565.8 m 145.0 m
2581.5 m 140.0 m
2594.1 m 135.0 m
2601.0 m 135.0 m
2612.8 m 140.0 m
2643.4 m 140.0 m
2653.2 m 135.0 m
2671.8 m 130.0 m
2683.7 m 125.0 m
2697.1 m 120.0 m
2710.5 m 115.0 m
2724.7 m 110.0 m
2740.3 m 110.0 m
2749.9 m 115.0 m
2758.5 m 120.0 m
2767.9 m 125.0 m
2775.2 m 130.0 m
2787.5 m 135.0 m
2811.8 m 140.0 m
2825.5 m 140.0 m
2841.6 m 135.0 m
2853.7 m 130.0 m
2863.8 m 125.0 m
2871.8 m 120.0 m
2875.2 m 120.0 m
2882.7 m 125.0 m
2892.3 m 130.0 m
2904.1 m 135.0 m
2924.4 m 135.0 m
2937.5 m 130.0 m
2946.9 m 125.0 m
2955.4 m 120.0 m
2960.1 m 120.0 m
2968.8 m 125.0 m
2977.7 m 130.0 m
2986.3 m 135.0 m
2997.5 m 140.0 m
3032.7 m 140.0 m
3076.5 m 135.0 m
3084.8 m 130.0 m
3095.6 m 125.0 m
3117.0 m 120.0 m
3135.5 m 115.0 m
3147.7 m 115.0 m
3153.4 m 120.0 m
3163.8 m 125.0 m
3171.8 m 130.0 m
3185.2 m 135.0 m
3212.4 m 135.0 m
3225.7 m 130.0 m
3239.3 m 125.0 m
3256.6 m 120.0 m
3265.3 m 115.0 m
3288.8 m 115.0 m
3295.3 m 120.0 m
3301.3 m 125.0 m
3311.8 m 130.0 m
3325.1 m 135.0 m
3339.6 m 140.0 m
3353.7 m 145.0 m
3373.6 m 145.0 m
3450.9 m 140.0 m
3468.1 m 135.0 m
3480.3 m 130.0 m
3515.7 m 130.0 m
3597.4 m 130.0 m
3629.5 m 125.0 m
3660.0 m 120.0 m
3682.5 m 115.0 m
3696.1 m 110.0 m
3706.9 m 105.0 m
3717.5 m 100.0 m
3727.0 m 95.0 m
3741.7 m 90.0 m
3755.4 m 85.0 m
3770.2 m 80.0 m
3800.1 m 75.0 m
3841.6 m 70.0 m
3891.7 m 70.0 m
3930.9 m 70.0 m
4023.9 m 70.0 m
4102.9 m 75.0 m
4166.5 m 75.0 m
4202.5 m 70.0 m
4279.8 m 65.0 m
4384.0 m 65.0 m
4384.9 m 65.0 m
4388.3 m 65.0 m
4478.5 m 65.0 m
4544.4 m 60.0 m
4649.6 m 55.0 m
4782.3 m 50.0 m
5005.1 m 45.0 m
5132.9 m 45.0 m
5228.4 m 50.0 m
5232.5 m 50.0 m
5234.7 m 50.0 m
5360.6 m 55.0 m
5636.7 m 55.0 m
5710.9 m 55.0 m
5762.7 m 55.0 m
5828.9 m 55.0 m
5952.5 m 55.0 m
6032.6 m 55.0 m
6106.3 m 55.0 m
6158.0 m 50.0 m
6322.0 m 45.0 m
6378.6 m 40.0 m
6423.5 m 40.0 m
6577.1 m 40.0 m
6624.7 m 40.0 m
6631.4 m 40.0 m
6644.6 m 40.0 m
6796.4 m 40.0 m
6895.9 m 35.0 m
6896.7 m 35.0 m
7025.0 m 35.0 m
7079.4 m 35.0 m
7085.8 m 35.0 m
7090.6 m 35.0 m
7204.2 m 40.0 m
7239.3 m 40.0 m
7247.8 m 40.0 m
7271.4 m 40.0 m
7295.9 m 40.0 m
7412.5 m 40.0 m
7422.5 m 40.0 m
7429.1 m 40.0 m
7432.9 m 40.0 m
7515.4 m 40.0 m
7543.5 m 40.0 m
7559.8 m 40.0 m
7743.4 m 40.0 m
7785.7 m 45.0 m
7810.8 m 50.0 m
7828.2 m 55.0 m
7847.2 m 60.0 m
7866.2 m 65.0 m
7882.2 m 70.0 m
7891.2 m 75.0 m
7901.7 m 80.0 m
7914.0 m 85.0 m
7931.7 m 90.0 m
7973.1 m 90.0 m
7995.8 m 85.0 m
8007.4 m 80.0 m
8042.8 m 75.0 m
8056.7 m 70.0 m
8084.6 m 70.0 m
8094.5 m 75.0 m
8102.8 m 80.0 m
8110.1 m 85.0 m
8118.9 m 90.0 m
8129.0 m 95.0 m
8136.6 m 100.0 m
8144.0 m 105.0 m
8155.8 m 110.0 m
8164.2 m 115.0 m
8171.7 m 120.0 m
8178.3 m 125.0 m
8188.5 m 130.0 m
8205.0 m 135.0 m
8218.4 m 140.0 m
8230.0 m 145.0 m
8239.9 m 150.0 m
8248.5 m 155.0 m
8254.6 m 160.0 m
8262.0 m 165.0 m
8267.6 m 170.0 m
8271.7 m 175.0 m
8277.3 m 180.0 m
8285.1 m 185.0 m
8294.7 m 190.0 m
8302.8 m 195.0 m
8310.6 m 200.0 m
8320.0 m 205.0 m
8328.1 m 210.0 m
8336.0 m 215.0 m
8344.8 m 220.0 m
8353.1 m 225.0 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: 17 legs from minimally formed natural track off Old Gympie Road, 8359.7 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 National Park Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 127NPW725, 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: 1560591 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    437.8 m at 204.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1560591 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1559603 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    444.0 m at 278.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1559603 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1562339 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    19.4 m at 280.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1562339 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1562833 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    60.2 m at 279.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1562833 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 766AP23886 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    932.1 m at 259.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 766AP23886 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 2AP23886 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    923.6 m at 317.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2AP23886 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 1AP23774 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    750.3 m at 14.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1AP23774 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 1559147 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    511.9 m at 52.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1559147 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 1559223 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    392.1 m at 93.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1559223 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 1559375 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1779.8 m at 92.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1559375 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 1559071 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    64.2 m at 119.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1559071 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 1570623 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    77.9 m at 100.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1570623 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 1570661 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    228.2 m at 161.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1570661 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 1572523 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    166.4 m at 98.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1572523 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 1572181 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    33.2 m at 98.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1572181 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 1564999 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    879.3 m at 92.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1564999 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 127NPW725 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    659.3 m at 319.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 127NPW725 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
Coochin, Glass House Mountains National Park
Lot on plan
127NPW725
Coordinates
-26.86667, 152.93222 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
mountain

What this approach was read from