Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Mellum Creek

Mellum Creek from Track

entry is a road 0 m of climb chain confidence Official spatial — evidence class mellum-creek--from-track

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

A lawful approach from Track, 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 -26.86088, 153.02648

That is Track, where the walk below begins — 2.0 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.

-26.86088, 153.02648

Four-wheel-drive only The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as four-wheel-drive. A vehicle that gets most of the way along a road like this can still be stopped by the last of it.

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 1588369 nothing mapped 223.7 m 121.6° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Protected estate 561AP22457 nothing mapped 1795.5 m 158.0° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 2019.2 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 published way to follow

at least 1 hour out and back

at least half an hour there at least half 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 1892.6 m · height 5.0 to 5.0 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 77.5 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
150.2 m 5.0 m
154.0 m 5.0 m
157.3 m 5.0 m
197.8 m 5.0 m
361.5 m 5.0 m
998.2 m 5.0 m
1075.7 m 5.0 m
1589.5 m 5.0 m
1892.6 m 5.0 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 Track, 2019.2 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 1603607, 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: 1588369 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    223.7 m at 121.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1588369 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 561AP22457 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1795.5 m at 158.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 561AP22457 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
Mellum Creek
Lot on plan
1603607
Coordinates
-26.87696, 153.03517 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from