Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · North Maroochy River

North Maroochy River from Central Park Drive

entry is a road 100 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class north-maroochy-river--from-central-park-drive

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

A lawful approach from Central Park Drive, 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 -26.57234, 152.96186

That is Central Park Drive, where the walk below begins — 7.3 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.

-26.57234, 152.96186

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 2178702 nothing mapped 543.2 m 280.4° W Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 2178664 nothing mapped 59.1 m 178.8° S Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 2185618 nothing mapped 246.0 m 161.6° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 2185276 nothing mapped 153.8 m 154.8° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 2187328 nothing mapped 191.9 m 147.8° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
6 Road reserve 2166504 nothing mapped 450.1 m 142.5° SE Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 2166238 nothing mapped 63.1 m 156.5° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 2167340 nothing mapped 69.4 m 211.2° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 2167834 nothing mapped 30.3 m 192.9° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 2166314 nothing mapped 511.9 m 201.9° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 2167264 nothing mapped 40.9 m 180.4° S Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 2164566 nothing mapped 429.9 m 201.6° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 2164756 nothing mapped 21.6 m 168.8° S Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 2165782 nothing mapped 175.0 m 112.9° ESE Official spatial — evidence class
15 Watercourse bed 2164680 nothing mapped 112.4 m 9.3° N Statutory inference — evidence class
16 Road reserve 2163996 nothing mapped 890.4 m 99.2° E Official spatial — evidence class
17 Road reserve 2164870 nothing mapped 139.0 m 2.3° N Official spatial — evidence class
18 Road reserve 2165934 nothing mapped 455.4 m 337.7° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
19 Road reserve 2190900 nothing mapped 48.3 m 32.9° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
20 Protected estate 559NPW814 nothing mapped 757.2 m 1.1° N Official spatial — evidence class
21 Road reserve 2188088 nothing mapped 1316.7 m 8.0° N Official spatial — evidence class
22 Road reserve 2187860 nothing mapped 44.1 m 358.1° N Official spatial — evidence class
23 Road reserve 2191470 nothing mapped 182.5 m 53.0° NE Official spatial — evidence class
24 Road reserve 2192078 nothing mapped 194.6 m 61.1° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
25 Watercourse bed 2192040 nothing mapped 127.0 m 51.1° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
26 Watercourse bed 2191622 nothing mapped 14.3 m 15.1° NNE Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 7268.1 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 2165782 and 2163996 is 69.12 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2192078 and 2191622 is 100.63 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 3 hours out and back

at least 1½ hours there at least 1½ hours back

100 m up and 110 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 110 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 6933.5 m · height 5.0 to 40.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
100.0 m
Total descent
110.0 m
Steepest sustained
21.6% over 69.5 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
398.6 m 15.0 m
463.1 m 20.0 m
607.6 m 20.0 m
613.2 m 20.0 m
996.9 m 25.0 m
1094.5 m 30.0 m
1213.6 m 30.0 m
1274.7 m 25.0 m
1320.6 m 20.0 m
1330.9 m 20.0 m
1353.9 m 20.0 m
1436.5 m 20.0 m
1614.4 m 20.0 m
1657.0 m 15.0 m
1721.6 m 15.0 m
1732.7 m 20.0 m
1747.2 m 20.0 m
1835.0 m 15.0 m
2033.6 m 15.0 m
2108.0 m 20.0 m
2254.8 m 20.0 m
2994.0 m 15.0 m
3005.7 m 15.0 m
3088.0 m 15.0 m
3106.8 m 15.0 m
3122.2 m 20.0 m
3148.7 m 25.0 m
3181.2 m 30.0 m
3231.8 m 30.0 m
3262.2 m 25.0 m
3317.8 m 20.0 m
3381.2 m 15.0 m
3604.9 m 15.0 m
3644.5 m 20.0 m
3675.9 m 25.0 m
3711.0 m 30.0 m
3766.1 m 30.0 m
3805.5 m 25.0 m
3939.7 m 25.0 m
3966.7 m 30.0 m
4067.5 m 30.0 m
4156.4 m 25.0 m
4256.6 m 20.0 m
4349.6 m 15.0 m
4424.4 m 15.0 m
4519.4 m 15.0 m
4581.7 m 15.0 m
4585.6 m 15.0 m
4621.9 m 10.0 m
4631.1 m 10.0 m
4687.0 m 15.0 m
4711.3 m 20.0 m
4734.1 m 25.0 m
4756.5 m 30.0 m
4878.0 m 35.0 m
4908.3 m 35.0 m
4909.9 m 35.0 m
4956.4 m 40.0 m
4994.8 m 40.0 m
5073.8 m 35.0 m
5106.9 m 30.0 m
5108.2 m 30.0 m
5141.3 m 35.0 m
5194.9 m 40.0 m
5416.1 m 40.0 m
5445.9 m 35.0 m
5470.3 m 30.0 m
5499.0 m 25.0 m
5538.0 m 20.0 m
5595.0 m 15.0 m
5644.6 m 15.0 m
5693.7 m 15.0 m
5777.4 m 10.0 m
5851.5 m 5.0 m
5857.3 m 5.0 m
6585.4 m 5.0 m
6595.4 m 5.0 m
6897.7 m 5.0 m
6924.6 m 5.0 m
6926.7 m 5.0 m
6930.4 m 5.0 m
6933.5 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 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 26 legs from Central Park Drive, 7268.1 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 2191622, 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: 2178702 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    543.2 m at 280.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2178702 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 2178664 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    59.1 m at 178.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2178664 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 2185618 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    246.0 m at 161.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2185618 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 2185276 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    153.8 m at 154.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2185276 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 2187328 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    191.9 m at 147.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2187328 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 2166504 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    450.1 m at 142.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2166504 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 2166238 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    63.1 m at 156.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2166238 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 2167340 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    69.4 m at 211.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2167340 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 2167834 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    30.3 m at 192.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2167834 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 2166314 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    511.9 m at 201.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2166314 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 2167264 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    40.9 m at 180.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2167264 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 2164566 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    429.9 m at 201.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2164566 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 2164756 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    21.6 m at 168.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2164756 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 2165782 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    175.0 m at 112.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2165782 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 2164680 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    112.4 m at 9.3°. 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 2164680 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 16: 2163996 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    890.4 m at 99.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2163996 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 2164870 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    139.0 m at 2.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2164870 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 18: 2165934 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    455.4 m at 337.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2165934 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 19: 2190900 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    48.3 m at 32.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2190900 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 20: 559NPW814 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    757.2 m at 1.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 559NPW814 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 21: 2188088 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1316.7 m at 8.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2188088 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 22: 2187860 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    44.1 m at 358.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2187860 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 23: 2191470 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    182.5 m at 53.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2191470 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 24: 2192078 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    194.6 m at 61.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2192078 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 25: 2192040 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    127.0 m at 51.1°. 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 2192040 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 26: 2191622 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    14.3 m at 15.1°. 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 2191622 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
North Maroochy River
Lot on plan
2191622
Coordinates
-26.56361, 152.97347 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from