Public Trails Computed from official land records

Sunshine Coast · Tatnell Creek

Tatnell Creek from Hill Link

entry is a track 50 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class tatnell-creek--from-hill-link

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

A lawful approach from Hill Link, 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 -26.48092, 152.96926

That is Hill Link, where the walk below begins — 3.8 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.

-26.48092, 152.96926

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 Protected estate 351NPW791 Hill Link open 20.8 m 294.9° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1098326 nothing mapped 15.6 m 271.3° W Official spatial — evidence class
3 Road reserve 1098364 nothing mapped 389.4 m 268.8° W Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 1096502 nothing mapped 83.2 m 278.7° W Official spatial — evidence class
5 Road reserve 1096388 nothing mapped 219.7 m 273.2° W Official spatial — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 1100758 nothing mapped 51.7 m 289.8° WNW Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Road reserve 1100720 nothing mapped 575.0 m 279.5° W Official spatial — evidence class
8 Road reserve 1100948 nothing mapped 47.6 m 302.3° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
9 Road reserve 1101024 nothing mapped 128.0 m 346.1° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 1046076 nothing mapped 69.8 m 328.1° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 1046000 nothing mapped 240.0 m 322.6° NW Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 1044670 nothing mapped 22.3 m 297.2° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 1045886 nothing mapped 86.6 m 301.9° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 1050332 nothing mapped 8.0 m 323.0° NW Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 1044784 nothing mapped 171.2 m 326.1° NW Official spatial — evidence class
16 Road reserve 1049306 nothing mapped 111.8 m 221.5° SW Official spatial — evidence class
17 Road reserve 1049040 nothing mapped 51.6 m 136.7° SE Official spatial — evidence class
18 Road reserve 1049116 nothing mapped 5.1 m 53.7° NE Official spatial — evidence class
19 Road reserve 1052194 nothing mapped 152.4 m 139.9° SE Official spatial — evidence class
20 Road reserve 1050370 nothing mapped 15.0 m 142.7° SE Official spatial — evidence class
21 Road reserve 1050408 nothing mapped 81.5 m 163.5° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
22 Road reserve 2516205 nothing mapped 30.7 m 141.8° SE Official spatial — evidence class
23 Road reserve 1051890 nothing mapped 102.0 m 142.8° SE Official spatial — evidence class
24 Road reserve 2517307 nothing mapped 189.3 m 201.0° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
25 Road reserve 2516737 nothing mapped 152.2 m 221.2° SW Official spatial — evidence class
26 Road reserve 2520309 nothing mapped 121.7 m 164.7° SSE Official spatial — evidence class
27 Road reserve 2520347 nothing mapped 133.3 m 133.8° SE Official spatial — evidence class
28 Road reserve 1724134 nothing mapped 333.7 m 219.7° SW Official spatial — evidence class
29 Road reserve 2522665 nothing mapped 186.8 m 342.8° NNW Official spatial — evidence class
Total 20.8 m mapped 3796.0 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 1096388 and 1100720 is 48.81 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 1¾ hours out and back

at least three quarters of an hour there at least 1 hour back

50 m up and 80 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 80 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 21 m of this 3796 m chain — about 1% 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 1 Hill Link Official spatial — evidence class

    21 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service).

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 3775.5 m · height 20.0 to 60.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
50.0 m
Total descent
80.0 m
Steepest sustained
28.9% over 51.9 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
7.5 m 55.0 m
25.8 m 60.0 m
45.7 m 60.0 m
63.8 m 55.0 m
79.4 m 50.0 m
97.6 m 45.0 m
125.4 m 40.0 m
258.2 m 35.0 m
374.2 m 35.0 m
396.4 m 40.0 m
439.4 m 40.0 m
465.1 m 35.0 m
489.2 m 30.0 m
511.8 m 25.0 m
663.9 m 20.0 m
714.1 m 20.0 m
719.1 m 20.0 m
748.8 m 20.0 m
1447.6 m 25.0 m
1454.7 m 30.0 m
1475.0 m 30.0 m
1496.2 m 25.0 m
1528.9 m 25.0 m
1530.2 m 25.0 m
1537.0 m 25.0 m
1548.2 m 25.0 m
1950.2 m 25.0 m
1956.5 m 25.0 m
1974.6 m 25.0 m
2106.6 m 30.0 m
2160.4 m 30.0 m
2218.6 m 30.0 m
2290.5 m 30.0 m
2462.2 m 30.0 m
2613.6 m 35.0 m
2711.8 m 40.0 m
2742.7 m 45.0 m
2784.6 m 50.0 m
2935.2 m 55.0 m
2944.6 m 55.0 m
2946.4 m 55.0 m
2954.9 m 55.0 m
3070.5 m 50.0 m
3100.6 m 45.0 m
3125.6 m 40.0 m
3159.3 m 35.0 m
3220.4 m 30.0 m
3266.8 m 25.0 m
3430.7 m 25.0 m
3775.5 m 25.0 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: 29 legs from Hill Link, 3796.0 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: 351NPW791 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.8 m at 294.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 351NPW791 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1098326 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    15.6 m at 271.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1098326 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1098364 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    389.4 m at 268.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1098364 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 1096502 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    83.2 m at 278.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1096502 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 1096388 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    219.7 m at 273.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1096388 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 1100758 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    51.7 m at 289.8°. 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 1100758 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 1100720 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    575.0 m at 279.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1100720 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 1100948 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    47.6 m at 302.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1100948 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 9: 1101024 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    128.0 m at 346.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1101024 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 1046076 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    69.8 m at 328.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1046076 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 1046000 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    240.0 m at 322.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1046000 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 1044670 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    22.3 m at 297.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1044670 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 1045886 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    86.6 m at 301.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1045886 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 1050332 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    8.0 m at 323.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1050332 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 1044784 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    171.2 m at 326.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1044784 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 16: 1049306 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    111.8 m at 221.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1049306 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 17: 1049040 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

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

    Leg reference 1049040 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 18: 1049116 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    5.1 m at 53.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1049116 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 19: 1052194 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    152.4 m at 139.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1052194 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 20: 1050370 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    15.0 m at 142.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1050370 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 21: 1050408 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    81.5 m at 163.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1050408 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 22: 2516205 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    30.7 m at 141.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2516205 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 23: 1051890 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    102.0 m at 142.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1051890 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 24: 2517307 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    189.3 m at 201.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2517307 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 25: 2516737 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    152.2 m at 221.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2516737 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 26: 2520309 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    121.7 m at 164.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2520309 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 27: 2520347 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    133.3 m at 133.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2520347 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 28: 1724134 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    333.7 m at 219.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1724134 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 29: 2522665 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    186.8 m at 342.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2522665 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
Tatnell Creek
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-26.48333, 152.95000 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from