Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Crohamhurst Creek

Crohamhurst Creek from Crohamhurst Road

entry is a road 175 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class crohamhurst-creek--from-crohamhurst-road-2

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

A lawful approach from Crohamhurst 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 -26.81120, 152.86459

That is Crohamhurst Road, where the walk below begins — 5.9 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.

-26.81120, 152.86459

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 1508607 nothing mapped 722.6 m 288.9° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1508569 nothing mapped 807.7 m 329.1° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1508531 McCarthy Shute Road open 61.3 m 264.9° W Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 1507657 nothing mapped 541.8 m 211.8° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 1507619 nothing mapped 1144.8 m 225.6° SW Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 1507999 nothing mapped 260.5 m 174.6° S Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 1506631 nothing mapped 844.6 m 185.8° S Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 1506669 nothing mapped 809.2 m 98.6° E Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Road reserve 1530191 nothing mapped 14.9 m 102.2° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
10 Watercourse bed 1531977 nothing mapped 712.9 m 109.9° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
Total 43.8 m mapped 5920.3 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 1507657 and 1507999 is 581.74 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1507619 and 1506631 is 196.15 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1507999 and 1506669 is 727.89 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1506631 and 1530191 is 801.34 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The gap between the parcels either side of this crossing could not be measured from the geometry, which is a reason for more caution, not less.

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

at least 3 hours out and back

at least 1½ hours there at least 1½ hours back

175 m up and 210 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 210 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 44 m of this 5920 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 3 McCarthy Shute Road Official spatial — evidence class

    44 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 5846.6 m · height 150.0 to 245.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
175.0 m
Total descent
210.0 m
Steepest sustained
44.2% over 56.5 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
51.3 m 185.0 m
92.9 m 180.0 m
234.9 m 175.0 m
274.3 m 175.0 m
291.8 m 180.0 m
323.2 m 185.0 m
336.0 m 190.0 m
346.5 m 195.0 m
356.9 m 200.0 m
367.6 m 205.0 m
379.7 m 210.0 m
394.1 m 215.0 m
413.5 m 220.0 m
445.5 m 225.0 m
466.3 m 225.0 m
547.5 m 220.0 m
560.8 m 220.0 m
581.0 m 225.0 m
606.6 m 230.0 m
626.6 m 235.0 m
643.2 m 240.0 m
661.1 m 245.0 m
694.2 m 245.0 m
710.4 m 240.0 m
727.1 m 235.0 m
767.0 m 230.0 m
851.2 m 225.0 m
873.0 m 225.0 m
906.6 m 225.0 m
917.1 m 225.0 m
947.1 m 230.0 m
1079.3 m 230.0 m
1111.1 m 225.0 m
1167.2 m 225.0 m
1195.8 m 230.0 m
1249.5 m 230.0 m
1274.6 m 225.0 m
1300.7 m 220.0 m
1350.2 m 215.0 m
1355.6 m 215.0 m
1359.2 m 215.0 m
1425.6 m 210.0 m
1489.4 m 205.0 m
1509.1 m 200.0 m
1524.9 m 195.0 m
1581.2 m 195.0 m
1582.5 m 195.0 m
1583.4 m 195.0 m
1603.4 m 200.0 m
1620.8 m 205.0 m
1652.3 m 205.0 m
1671.4 m 200.0 m
1684.9 m 195.0 m
1696.9 m 190.0 m
1709.5 m 185.0 m
1723.3 m 180.0 m
1743.5 m 175.0 m
1799.9 m 175.0 m
1827.0 m 180.0 m
1853.5 m 185.0 m
1876.0 m 185.0 m
1900.3 m 180.0 m
1925.3 m 175.0 m
1943.7 m 175.0 m
2042.4 m 175.0 m
2084.2 m 170.0 m
2117.8 m 165.0 m
2139.6 m 160.0 m
2153.9 m 160.0 m
2177.5 m 165.0 m
2283.2 m 165.0 m
2319.7 m 160.0 m
2334.8 m 160.0 m
2353.4 m 165.0 m
2382.5 m 170.0 m
2447.6 m 170.0 m
2491.5 m 165.0 m
2504.1 m 165.0 m
2585.2 m 170.0 m
2671.3 m 175.0 m
2713.5 m 180.0 m
2737.6 m 180.0 m
2801.3 m 180.0 m
2830.1 m 185.0 m
2861.0 m 190.0 m
2895.9 m 190.0 m
2912.9 m 185.0 m
2925.5 m 180.0 m
2938.5 m 175.0 m
2953.1 m 170.0 m
2980.6 m 165.0 m
3094.2 m 165.0 m
3111.8 m 170.0 m
3130.2 m 175.0 m
3151.5 m 180.0 m
3205.3 m 180.0 m
3220.9 m 175.0 m
3237.8 m 170.0 m
3250.4 m 165.0 m
3263.6 m 160.0 m
3310.3 m 160.0 m
3312.6 m 160.0 m
3317.2 m 160.0 m
3334.0 m 160.0 m
3622.3 m 160.0 m
3632.4 m 165.0 m
3645.5 m 170.0 m
3678.6 m 170.0 m
3738.0 m 165.0 m
3831.8 m 160.0 m
3988.3 m 155.0 m
3990.5 m 155.0 m
3993.5 m 155.0 m
3999.0 m 155.0 m
4344.9 m 155.0 m
4420.2 m 155.0 m
4448.0 m 155.0 m
4554.3 m 155.0 m
4595.3 m 155.0 m
4659.8 m 155.0 m
4786.8 m 155.0 m
4799.4 m 155.0 m
4842.5 m 155.0 m
5215.3 m 150.0 m
5250.6 m 150.0 m
5263.9 m 155.0 m
5449.0 m 155.0 m
5600.0 m 150.0 m
5623.1 m 150.0 m
5716.1 m 150.0 m
5757.6 m 150.0 m
5764.5 m 150.0 m
5766.6 m 150.0 m
5782.3 m 150.0 m
5837.7 m 150.0 m
5846.6 m 150.0 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 Crohamhurst Road, 5920.3 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 Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 1531977, recorded tenure "Watercourse". 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: 1508607 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    722.6 m at 288.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1508607 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1508569 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    807.7 m at 329.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1508569 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1508531 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    61.3 m at 264.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1508531 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1507657 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    541.8 m at 211.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1507657 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 1507619 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1144.8 m at 225.6°. 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 1507619 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 1507999 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    260.5 m at 174.6°. 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 1507999 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 1506631 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    844.6 m at 185.8°. 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 1506631 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 1506669 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    809.2 m at 98.6°. 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 1506669 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 1530191 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    14.9 m at 102.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1530191 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 1531977 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    712.9 m at 109.9°. 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 1531977 Grade statutory_inference

  • 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
Crohamhurst Creek
Lot on plan
1531977
Coordinates
-26.82750, 152.85615 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from