Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Lake Dunethin

Lake Dunethin from River Road

entry is a road chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class lake-dunethin--from-river-road

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

A lawful approach from River 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 -26.57117, 153.02261

That is River Road, where the walk below begins — 3.5 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.

-26.57117, 153.02261

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 1696256 nothing mapped 796.6 m 136.7° SE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1699448 nothing mapped 110.6 m 186.7° S Official spatial — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 1699486 nothing mapped 381.0 m 318.0° NW Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 1700208 nothing mapped 485.9 m 321.8° NW Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 1699980 nothing mapped 98.6 m 273.0° W Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 1700018 nothing mapped 856.2 m 241.7° WSW Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 5384029 nothing mapped 261.0 m 239.9° WSW Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Road reserve 1700664 nothing mapped 338.8 m 209.2° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 1700702 nothing mapped 131.9 m 281.8° WNW Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 3460.6 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 1699448 and 1700208 is 318.69 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1699486 and 1699980 is 474.11 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1700208 and 1700018 is 96.21 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1699980 and 5384029 is 787.82 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1700018 and 1700664 is 247.90 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 published way to follow

at least 1½ hours out and back

at least three quarters of an hour there at least three quarters of an hour back

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track. The climb on this route could not be measured, so the figure is flat-ground time and the real walk is longer.

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 No contour cover along this line

No profile is published for this route. The contour layer does not cross its line often enough to describe a climb, and a profile drawn from anything else would be a guess about the ground.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 9 legs from River Road, 3460.6 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 1700702, 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: 1696256 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    796.6 m at 136.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1696256 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1699448 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    110.6 m at 186.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1699448 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1699486 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    381.0 m at 318.0°. 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 1699486 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 1700208 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    485.9 m at 321.8°. 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 1700208 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 1699980 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    98.6 m at 273.0°. 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 1699980 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 1700018 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    856.2 m at 241.7°. 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 1700018 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 5384029 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    261.0 m at 239.9°. 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 5384029 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 1700664 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    338.8 m at 209.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1700664 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 1700702 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    131.9 m at 281.8°. 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 1700702 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
Lake Dunethin
Lot on plan
1700702
Coordinates
-26.57861, 153.00861 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
lake

What this approach was read from