Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Ngungun

Ngungun from Esplanade

entry is a road 330 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class ngungun--from-esplanade

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

A lawful approach from Esplanade, 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 -26.91086, 152.94914

That is Esplanade, where the walk below begins — 8.3 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.

-26.91086, 152.94914

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 1657453 nothing mapped 146.7 m 171.2° S Official spatial — evidence class
2 Watercourse bed 1658061 nothing mapped 506.5 m 214.3° SW Statutory inference — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 979385 nothing mapped 1310.2 m 262.6° W Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 979651 nothing mapped 1066.0 m 263.0° W Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Road reserve 1505212 nothing mapped 29.8 m 234.9° SW Official spatial — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 1689031 nothing mapped 752.3 m 324.9° NW Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Road reserve 1688347 nothing mapped 773.0 m 283.1° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 1688993 Meyricks Road unassessed 21.5 m 286.8° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 1691577 Mt Beerwah Road open 435.8 m 332.1° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 1561275 nothing mapped 503.4 m 10.7° N Official spatial — evidence class
11 Protected estate 127NPW725 nothing mapped 624.0 m 68.6° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 1562643 nothing mapped 842.9 m 93.2° E Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 1503692 Old Gympie Road open 33.5 m 86.9° E Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 1651183 nothing mapped 855.2 m 94.8° E Official spatial — evidence class
15 Protected estate 127NPW725 nothing mapped 426.8 m 40.4° NE Official spatial — evidence class
Total 401.7 m mapped 8327.6 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 1657453 and 979385 is 422.63 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1658061 and 979651 is 1304.01 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 979385 and 1505212 is 1044.63 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1505212 and 1688347 is 406.53 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

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

at least 4¼ hours out and back

at least 2¼ hours there at least 2 hours back

330 m up and 130 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 130 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 402 m of this 8328 m chain — about 5% 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 8 Meyricks Road Official spatial — evidence class

    22 m along it · the authority maps it but publishes no assessment of it (Local Government Authority).

  • Leg 9 Mt Beerwah Road Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • Leg 13 Old Gympie Road Official spatial — evidence class

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

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 8324.4 m · height 30.0 to 230.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
330.0 m
Total descent
130.0 m
Steepest sustained
101.6% over 54.1 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
138.9 m 30.0 m
377.5 m 30.0 m
380.3 m 30.0 m
380.6 m 30.0 m
549.8 m 30.0 m
627.9 m 30.0 m
630.8 m 30.0 m
666.6 m 30.0 m
682.1 m 30.0 m
697.5 m 30.0 m
708.5 m 30.0 m
720.1 m 30.0 m
1645.7 m 35.0 m
1648.9 m 35.0 m
1651.8 m 35.0 m
1657.6 m 35.0 m
1658.1 m 35.0 m
1819.3 m 35.0 m
2053.5 m 35.0 m
2780.7 m 40.0 m
2897.4 m 40.0 m
3295.8 m 40.0 m
3488.0 m 40.0 m
3492.0 m 40.0 m
3588.0 m 45.0 m
3598.8 m 45.0 m
3611.7 m 40.0 m
3628.7 m 40.0 m
3673.9 m 40.0 m
3683.2 m 40.0 m
3971.8 m 45.0 m
3980.5 m 45.0 m
3981.9 m 45.0 m
4087.1 m 50.0 m
4132.7 m 55.0 m
4167.8 m 60.0 m
4204.5 m 65.0 m
4241.9 m 70.0 m
4516.0 m 75.0 m
4663.4 m 75.0 m
4671.2 m 75.0 m
4675.7 m 75.0 m
4676.2 m 75.0 m
4727.5 m 80.0 m
4811.7 m 80.0 m
4977.4 m 75.0 m
5033.8 m 70.0 m
5063.7 m 65.0 m
5081.5 m 60.0 m
5154.1 m 60.0 m
5206.7 m 65.0 m
5313.4 m 65.0 m
5333.8 m 65.0 m
5410.0 m 70.0 m
5467.7 m 75.0 m
5508.4 m 80.0 m
5629.5 m 85.0 m
5652.0 m 90.0 m
5673.8 m 95.0 m
5695.2 m 100.0 m
5726.7 m 105.0 m
5802.2 m 110.0 m
5825.8 m 115.0 m
5873.5 m 115.0 m
5897.2 m 110.0 m
5913.7 m 105.0 m
5929.6 m 100.0 m
5943.1 m 95.0 m
5960.9 m 90.0 m
5991.3 m 85.0 m
5993.4 m 85.0 m
6013.6 m 90.0 m
6035.0 m 90.0 m
6051.7 m 85.0 m
6065.4 m 80.0 m
6097.6 m 75.0 m
6126.1 m 70.0 m
6147.3 m 70.0 m
6155.1 m 70.0 m
6240.1 m 65.0 m
6253.8 m 65.0 m
6257.8 m 65.0 m
6261.8 m 65.0 m
6296.3 m 70.0 m
6350.7 m 75.0 m
6444.2 m 80.0 m
6454.3 m 80.0 m
6538.7 m 75.0 m
6566.3 m 70.0 m
6592.7 m 65.0 m
6618.6 m 60.0 m
6652.5 m 55.0 m
6687.9 m 55.0 m
6775.5 m 60.0 m
6840.2 m 65.0 m
6933.0 m 70.0 m
6938.9 m 70.0 m
7002.0 m 65.0 m
7025.6 m 60.0 m
7041.1 m 60.0 m
7155.7 m 65.0 m
7313.9 m 65.0 m
7492.7 m 60.0 m
7552.8 m 55.0 m
7603.9 m 50.0 m
7742.4 m 50.0 m
7839.0 m 55.0 m
7920.0 m 60.0 m
7961.9 m 65.0 m
7996.2 m 70.0 m
8027.7 m 75.0 m
8053.9 m 80.0 m
8072.1 m 85.0 m
8087.8 m 90.0 m
8101.9 m 95.0 m
8114.4 m 100.0 m
8126.5 m 105.0 m
8139.3 m 110.0 m
8150.7 m 115.0 m
8164.8 m 120.0 m
8174.2 m 125.0 m
8184.9 m 130.0 m
8195.3 m 135.0 m
8205.1 m 140.0 m
8214.0 m 145.0 m
8224.5 m 150.0 m
8233.7 m 155.0 m
8241.5 m 160.0 m
8247.8 m 165.0 m
8253.5 m 170.0 m
8262.9 m 175.0 m
8270.5 m 180.0 m
8276.4 m 185.0 m
8282.5 m 190.0 m
8288.9 m 195.0 m
8295.3 m 200.0 m
8299.6 m 205.0 m
8301.5 m 210.0 m
8303.1 m 215.0 m
8305.6 m 220.0 m
8309.1 m 225.0 m
8317.1 m 230.0 m
8323.4 m 230.0 m
8324.4 m 230.0 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: 15 legs from Esplanade, 8327.6 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 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: 1657453 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    146.7 m at 171.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1657453 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1658061 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    506.5 m at 214.3°. 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 1658061 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 3: 979385 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1310.2 m at 262.6°. 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 979385 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 979651 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1066.0 m at 263.0°. 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 979651 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 1505212 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    29.8 m at 234.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1505212 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 1689031 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    752.3 m at 324.9°. 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 1689031 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 1688347 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    773.0 m at 283.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1688347 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 1688993 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    21.5 m at 286.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1688993 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 1691577 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    435.8 m at 332.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1691577 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 1561275 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    503.4 m at 10.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1561275 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 127NPW725 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    624.0 m at 68.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 127NPW725 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 1562643 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    842.9 m at 93.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1562643 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 1503692 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    33.5 m at 86.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1503692 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 1651183 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    855.2 m at 94.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1651183 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 127NPW725 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    426.8 m at 40.4°. 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 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
Ngungun, Glass House Mountains National Park
Lot on plan
127NPW725
Coordinates
-26.89972, 152.93528 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
mountain

What this approach was read from