Public Trails Legal access to wild places, computed from official records

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Legal access to wild places, computed from official records

Public Trails answers one question: may the public lawfully get to this place, and on what evidence? Every answer is a chain of records — cadastre, protected-area estate, road reserves, statute — and every link in that chain carries the grade of the record it rests on. Where the chain breaks, the site publishes the refusal instead of a route.

  • A Gazetted / register — The fact is itself a statutory record.
  • B Official spatial record — Read from a maintained government layer.
  • C Statutory inference — Law applied to B-grade records; not ground-truthed.
  • D Community record — Community sources; labelled, never blended into A–C.

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

The verdict ladder

  1. 1 · Formal track A managed track on public estate, end to end. Walk it.
  2. 2 · Public estate, no track Lawful to be there; unmanaged terrain and route caveats below. This page is here.
  3. 3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published.
  4. 4 · No lawful route Enclosed by land the public has no right to cross. No route published.

Tiers 3 and 4 carry no legs, no distances and no map line. A refusal that leaked half a route would read as half a permission, so refusals are structurally empty by design.

Regions

What this page will never do

  • No user pins

    Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute and carries a grade, A to C. Community names are quarantined at grade D and labelled as such. Nothing on this page was dropped on a map by a stranger.

  • No invented lawfulness

    Where tenure cannot be confirmed from the public record, the page says so instead of endorsing the route or quietly hiding it. Where no lawful corridor exists at all, none is published — the refusal is the answer.

  • No safety pretence

    A tier is a tenure verdict, not a difficulty or safety rating. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.