Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Picnic Point

Picnic Point from Fourth Avenue

entry is a road chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class picnic-point--from-fourth-avenue

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

A lawful approach from Fourth Avenue, 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 -26.65529, 153.09875

That is Fourth Avenue, where the walk below begins — 3.2 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.

-26.65529, 153.09875

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 1900662 nothing mapped 113.7 m 125.6° SE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1901498 nothing mapped 142.2 m 56.7° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 693707 nothing mapped 105.0 m 343.4° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 693859 nothing mapped 181.0 m 56.7° ENE Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 693897 nothing mapped 160.6 m 95.8° E Official spatial — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 522647 nothing mapped 322.9 m 356.6° N Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 845667 nothing mapped 1108.2 m 302.9° WNW Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Protected estate 509NPW594 nothing mapped 42.8 m 298.6° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 845515 nothing mapped 618.5 m 285.3° WNW Statutory inference — evidence class
10 Watercourse bed 845477 nothing mapped 250.2 m 259.4° W Statutory inference — evidence class
11 Road reserve 1884170 nothing mapped 112.5 m 286.4° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
Total no way mapped 3157.6 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 693897 and 845667 is 21.88 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 522647 and 509NPW594 is 777.85 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 509NPW594 and 845477 is 329.31 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 845515 and 1884170 is 151.20 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

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

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: 11 legs from Fourth Avenue, 3157.6 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

    Parcel not resolved, recorded tenure "unresolved". 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: 1900662 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    113.7 m at 125.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1900662 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1901498 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    142.2 m at 56.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1901498 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 693707 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    105.0 m at 343.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 693707 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 693859 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    181.0 m at 56.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 693859 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 693897 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    160.6 m at 95.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 693897 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 522647 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    322.9 m at 356.6°. 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 522647 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 845667 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1108.2 m at 302.9°. 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 845667 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 509NPW594 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    42.8 m at 298.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 509NPW594 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 845515 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    618.5 m at 285.3°. 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 845515 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 10: 845477 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    250.2 m at 259.4°. 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 845477 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 11: 1884170 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    112.5 m at 286.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1884170 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
Picnic Point
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-26.64366, 153.08423 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
point

What this approach was read from