Public Trails Computed from official land records

Scenic Rim · Harold Jenyns Lookout

Harold Jenyns Lookout from minimally formed natural track off Tamborine Mountain Road

entry is a track 985 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class harold-jenyns-lookout--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-tamborine-mountain-road

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

A lawful approach from minimally formed natural track off Tamborine Mountain Road, 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 -27.90047, 153.17880

That is minimally formed natural track off Tamborine Mountain Road, where the walk below begins — 9.3 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.

-27.90047, 153.17880

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 1684063 an unnamed minimally formed natural open 35.4 m 30.9° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1274413 an unnamed minimally formed natural open 115.5 m 14.8° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
3 Protected estate 326NPW909 an unnamed minimally formed natural open 115.5 m 14.8° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
4 Road reserve 573275 an unnamed minimally formed natural open 102.4 m 8.4° N Official spatial — evidence class
5 Protected estate 326NPW909 nothing mapped 1075.7 m 24.2° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
6 Protected estate 441NPW909 nothing mapped 1967.7 m 36.3° NE Official spatial — evidence class
7 Road reserve 2537692 Cedar Creek Break open 101.8 m 27.4° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 2537806 nothing mapped 948.2 m 42.8° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Road reserve 2547192 nothing mapped 1488.3 m 136.7° SE Official spatial — evidence class
10 Road reserve 2590246 nothing mapped 140.3 m 176.3° S Official spatial — evidence class
11 Road reserve 2588802 nothing mapped 638.6 m 188.4° S Official spatial — evidence class
12 Road reserve 2579302 nothing mapped 33.5 m 221.8° SW Official spatial — evidence class
13 Road reserve 2579378 nothing mapped 1815.8 m 203.3° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
14 Road reserve 52385 nothing mapped 112.3 m 250.5° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
15 Road reserve 1313785 nothing mapped 649.6 m 234.1° SW Official spatial — evidence class
Total 442.7 m mapped 9340.6 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 2537692 and 2547192 is 509.53 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 6½ hours out and back

at least 3½ hours there at least 3 hours back

985 m up and 740 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 740 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 443 m of this 9341 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.

  • Legs 1–4 an unnamed minimally formed natural Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • Leg 7 Cedar Creek Break Official spatial — evidence class

    93 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public .

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 9292.2 m · height 60.0 to 505.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
985.0 m
Total descent
740.0 m
Steepest sustained
80.5% over 55.9 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
22.8 m 260.0 m
72.5 m 255.0 m
107.5 m 250.0 m
161.8 m 245.0 m
165.6 m 245.0 m
167.3 m 245.0 m
230.8 m 240.0 m
354.6 m 240.0 m
406.8 m 245.0 m
463.6 m 245.0 m
481.6 m 245.0 m
522.9 m 245.0 m
567.3 m 245.0 m
637.5 m 250.0 m
681.1 m 255.0 m
737.3 m 260.0 m
764.0 m 260.0 m
773.9 m 260.0 m
851.0 m 265.0 m
870.5 m 270.0 m
915.6 m 275.0 m
930.5 m 280.0 m
1013.1 m 285.0 m
1028.8 m 290.0 m
1040.7 m 295.0 m
1055.2 m 300.0 m
1072.7 m 305.0 m
1087.4 m 310.0 m
1108.1 m 315.0 m
1123.6 m 320.0 m
1135.7 m 325.0 m
1144.0 m 330.0 m
1154.4 m 335.0 m
1162.8 m 340.0 m
1171.8 m 345.0 m
1181.8 m 350.0 m
1190.1 m 355.0 m
1199.4 m 360.0 m
1210.0 m 365.0 m
1223.5 m 370.0 m
1239.5 m 375.0 m
1258.2 m 380.0 m
1272.8 m 385.0 m
1288.3 m 390.0 m
1304.1 m 395.0 m
1320.3 m 400.0 m
1339.6 m 405.0 m
1410.9 m 410.0 m
1496.0 m 410.0 m
1525.0 m 405.0 m
1554.2 m 400.0 m
1576.7 m 395.0 m
1592.6 m 390.0 m
1606.0 m 385.0 m
1621.3 m 380.0 m
1636.0 m 375.0 m
1648.5 m 370.0 m
1659.6 m 365.0 m
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1676.4 m 355.0 m
1684.2 m 350.0 m
1692.5 m 345.0 m
1701.1 m 340.0 m
1708.1 m 335.0 m
1715.3 m 330.0 m
1722.1 m 325.0 m
1728.7 m 320.0 m
1735.7 m 315.0 m
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1750.9 m 305.0 m
1758.5 m 300.0 m
1766.0 m 295.0 m
1773.4 m 290.0 m
1781.6 m 285.0 m
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1794.2 m 275.0 m
1800.5 m 270.0 m
1835.3 m 265.0 m
1849.3 m 260.0 m
1866.0 m 255.0 m
1881.3 m 250.0 m
1897.0 m 245.0 m
1908.2 m 240.0 m
1916.3 m 235.0 m
1924.7 m 230.0 m
1932.4 m 225.0 m
1939.2 m 220.0 m
1946.0 m 215.0 m
1952.0 m 210.0 m
1959.0 m 205.0 m
1968.6 m 205.0 m
1978.6 m 210.0 m
1989.2 m 215.0 m
2000.5 m 220.0 m
2017.3 m 225.0 m
2035.0 m 230.0 m
2045.8 m 230.0 m
2064.4 m 225.0 m
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2104.6 m 205.0 m
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2303.3 m 155.0 m
2313.2 m 150.0 m
2321.4 m 145.0 m
2358.9 m 145.0 m
2397.5 m 145.0 m
2411.6 m 140.0 m
2424.7 m 135.0 m
2440.3 m 130.0 m
2455.0 m 125.0 m
2470.5 m 120.0 m
2487.9 m 115.0 m
2507.2 m 110.0 m
2529.5 m 105.0 m
2552.9 m 100.0 m
2578.5 m 100.0 m
2584.1 m 105.0 m
2589.7 m 110.0 m
2594.3 m 115.0 m
2599.5 m 120.0 m
2604.4 m 125.0 m
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2681.8 m 170.0 m
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2742.1 m 200.0 m
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2832.1 m 195.0 m
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2861.5 m 180.0 m
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2881.0 m 170.0 m
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2921.3 m 145.0 m
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2976.2 m 105.0 m
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2994.4 m 90.0 m
3000.1 m 85.0 m
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3084.3 m 100.0 m
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3133.8 m 105.0 m
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3144.6 m 95.0 m
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3166.5 m 80.0 m
3496.2 m 75.0 m
3533.5 m 75.0 m
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3705.6 m 90.0 m
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3716.0 m 100.0 m
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3852.3 m 125.0 m
3866.7 m 120.0 m
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4118.1 m 85.0 m
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4168.6 m 75.0 m
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4230.5 m 75.0 m
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4323.0 m 65.0 m
4424.2 m 60.0 m
4491.0 m 60.0 m
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4660.7 m 70.0 m
4673.2 m 75.0 m
4687.7 m 80.0 m
4713.8 m 85.0 m
4795.6 m 90.0 m
4849.4 m 95.0 m
4875.0 m 100.0 m
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4916.0 m 110.0 m
4934.3 m 115.0 m
4954.0 m 120.0 m
4969.6 m 125.0 m
4983.7 m 130.0 m
5000.4 m 135.0 m
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5032.2 m 145.0 m
5056.1 m 150.0 m
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5128.3 m 140.0 m
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5187.5 m 150.0 m
5202.6 m 155.0 m
5218.3 m 160.0 m
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5315.3 m 175.0 m
5324.6 m 180.0 m
5370.2 m 185.0 m
5378.5 m 190.0 m
5393.6 m 195.0 m
5408.7 m 200.0 m
5422.5 m 205.0 m
5436.2 m 210.0 m
5468.9 m 215.0 m
5478.9 m 220.0 m
5502.3 m 225.0 m
5512.3 m 230.0 m
5528.2 m 235.0 m
5550.4 m 240.0 m
5571.7 m 245.0 m
5602.5 m 250.0 m
5636.5 m 255.0 m
5656.8 m 260.0 m
5690.7 m 265.0 m
5718.8 m 270.0 m
5732.6 m 275.0 m
5752.7 m 280.0 m
5773.3 m 285.0 m
5792.1 m 290.0 m
5823.6 m 295.0 m
5878.5 m 300.0 m
5928.8 m 305.0 m
5973.6 m 310.0 m
6096.2 m 315.0 m
6214.3 m 315.0 m
6326.2 m 310.0 m
6429.1 m 305.0 m
6506.4 m 305.0 m
6540.1 m 305.0 m
6552.1 m 305.0 m
6554.2 m 305.0 m
6583.8 m 300.0 m
6584.9 m 300.0 m
6594.1 m 305.0 m
6621.7 m 310.0 m
6633.7 m 315.0 m
6741.2 m 320.0 m
6788.0 m 325.0 m
6860.2 m 330.0 m
6882.9 m 335.0 m
6902.8 m 340.0 m
6917.7 m 345.0 m
6932.3 m 350.0 m
6948.6 m 355.0 m
7000.7 m 355.0 m
7014.9 m 350.0 m
7034.2 m 345.0 m
7048.1 m 340.0 m
7059.0 m 335.0 m
7072.5 m 330.0 m
7086.4 m 325.0 m
7098.3 m 320.0 m
7115.9 m 315.0 m
7133.8 m 310.0 m
7154.8 m 305.0 m
7173.8 m 305.0 m
7184.9 m 310.0 m
7198.4 m 315.0 m
7211.1 m 320.0 m
7223.5 m 325.0 m
7238.0 m 330.0 m
7251.1 m 335.0 m
7267.5 m 340.0 m
7286.4 m 345.0 m
7308.2 m 350.0 m
7341.4 m 355.0 m
7388.3 m 360.0 m
7411.5 m 360.0 m
7437.8 m 355.0 m
7454.5 m 350.0 m
7468.2 m 345.0 m
7480.5 m 345.0 m
7487.5 m 350.0 m
7495.5 m 355.0 m
7504.6 m 360.0 m
7512.9 m 365.0 m
7522.4 m 370.0 m
7534.7 m 375.0 m
7545.3 m 380.0 m
7556.7 m 385.0 m
7568.0 m 390.0 m
7578.9 m 395.0 m
7591.1 m 400.0 m
7602.2 m 405.0 m
7618.8 m 410.0 m
7641.6 m 415.0 m
7754.1 m 420.0 m
7809.5 m 425.0 m
7868.0 m 430.0 m
7910.2 m 435.0 m
7992.8 m 440.0 m
7993.8 m 440.0 m
8007.7 m 440.0 m
8103.0 m 440.0 m
8136.8 m 435.0 m
8157.3 m 430.0 m
8176.1 m 425.0 m
8190.1 m 420.0 m
8206.3 m 415.0 m
8218.8 m 410.0 m
8230.0 m 405.0 m
8245.5 m 400.0 m
8256.9 m 400.0 m
8317.2 m 400.0 m
8347.0 m 400.0 m
8354.4 m 405.0 m
8362.9 m 410.0 m
8373.2 m 415.0 m
8385.0 m 420.0 m
8396.9 m 425.0 m
8408.9 m 430.0 m
8424.2 m 435.0 m
8444.5 m 440.0 m
8529.2 m 445.0 m
8555.4 m 450.0 m
8706.6 m 455.0 m
8749.7 m 460.0 m
8776.2 m 465.0 m
8853.6 m 465.0 m
8888.5 m 460.0 m
8940.5 m 455.0 m
8954.8 m 455.0 m
8993.5 m 460.0 m
9040.7 m 465.0 m
9044.5 m 465.0 m
9079.9 m 460.0 m
9089.2 m 460.0 m
9109.5 m 465.0 m
9127.0 m 470.0 m
9145.0 m 475.0 m
9162.3 m 480.0 m
9184.2 m 485.0 m
9205.9 m 490.0 m
9231.3 m 495.0 m
9258.7 m 500.0 m
9292.2 m 505.0 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 — covers Scenic Rim

Route map: 15 legs from minimally formed natural track off Tamborine Mountain Road, 9340.6 m in total.

Panning stops just outside Scenic Rim, because the map archive is published one council area at a time. Every other council area Public Trails covers has a map of its own.

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: 1684063 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    35.4 m at 30.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1684063 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1274413 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    115.5 m at 14.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1274413 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 326NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    115.5 m at 14.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 326NPW909 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 4: 573275 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    102.4 m at 8.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 573275 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 5: 326NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1075.7 m at 24.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 326NPW909 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 6: 441NPW909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1967.7 m at 36.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 441NPW909 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 2537692 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    101.8 m at 27.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2537692 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 2537806 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    948.2 m at 42.8°. 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 2537806 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 2547192 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1488.3 m at 136.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2547192 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 10: 2590246 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    140.3 m at 176.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2590246 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 11: 2588802 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    638.6 m at 188.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2588802 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 12: 2579302 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    33.5 m at 221.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2579302 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 13: 2579378 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    1815.8 m at 203.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2579378 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 14: 52385 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    112.3 m at 250.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 52385 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 15: 1313785 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    649.6 m at 234.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1313785 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
Harold Jenyns Lookout
Lot on plan
not established from the cadastre
Coordinates
-27.90278, 153.19861 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
lookout

What this approach was read from