Trail · from Deer Lake (YDF)

The Alexander Murray Trail

Mapped path: 6.2 km; The ends meet: that is the whole walk.
Climbing: 345 m
To the trailhead: 1h 43m

moderatederived: 6.2 km + 345 m of climb ≈ 9 effective km — the rule is stated in code, not opinion

Drive: 130.8 km from the Deer Lake (YDF) terminal door to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal door to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-01.

The trail itself: 6.2 km, 345 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at 15 m up to red at 310 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Alexander Murray Trail: the mapped path is 6.2 km with 345 m of climbing, from 15 m up to 310 m. How long that takes is yours to know; what it climbs is not a matter of opinion.

to ~8% grade8–15%steepervertical stretched ~4×

Every cited segment →

OpenStreetMap way/705789505 + way/1328631019 + way/1328631020; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-01.

The shape is the fact worth reading: a climb that descends to a different low is a loop, not an out-and-back.

terrain from open elevation data — the same source as the profile above

Conditions are the day's — trip-plan basics →

Drive it with your own nav:Organic Maps →OsmAnd →Apple →Google →Waze →The first two run on OpenStreetMap and don't track you — the same map this site is built from.

Download the GPX → works in Organic Maps, OsmAnd, Garmin and Strava alike — it's just a file, no account, nothing tracked.

No one has sent a recording of this walk yet.Be the first — send the track →

Getting here

1h 43m from Deer Lake — 130.8 km to the trailhead.

The measured drive is YDF → King's Point, with the road numbers, the surface and where to eat along it.

What has been recorded near here

Species reported within 50 km of Alexander Murray Trail trailhead and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.

Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in October, November, June30 reports on record
Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in August, July, October30 reports on record
Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, September, June21 reports on record
Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in July, September18 reports on record
Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in August2 reports on record

What this is not

Not how many there are. A report means somebody looked, saw and wrote it down. A busy harbour with tour boats reports more than an empty coast with the same animals in it.
Not a sighting you are promised. Nothing here says you will see one.
Not complete. Only species we ask GBIF about appear, and only where somebody reported them.

From GBIF, queried 2026-09-14 — their record, not a copy of it.

Eating, when you come off

Everything the open map data records within 20 minutes' drive of the trailhead, measured by road and ordered by nothing but how long it takes to reach. 2 of 9 have positions two independent maps agree on.

Roy's Pub, Dining, Motel and Event Centre33 Main St · (709) 481-20301 min · 0.9 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Subway70 Little Bay Rd · (709) 673-282418 min · 19 kmnavigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · Waze
Top Shelf Bar & Games Room43 Little Bay Rd · (709) 673-393118 min · 19.2 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Springdale Wing N It43 Little Bay Rd · (709) 867-207018 min · 19.2 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Bo Jo's Restaurant117 Main St · (709) 673-373318 min · 19.7 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Mary Brown's Chicken and Taters194 Main St · (709) 673-384719 min · 20.2 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Tim Hortons15 Little Bay Rd · (709) 673-453919 min · 19.4 kmnavigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · Waze
Roberts’ Drive ‘N’ Dine197 Main St · (709) 293-067819 min · 20.6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address

No opening hours anywhere on this site, for anywhere — the open data holds none, which is an absence in the source rather than caution on our part. The telephone number is the only reliable answer to whether a kitchen is serving. Built 2026-09-14.

No photograph yet — the profile and the map are the honest visuals until someone who has walked it sends theirs.

Getting to the trailhead — Deer Lake (YDF) to the start of the Alexander Murray Trail: 130.8 km, about 1h 43m by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trailhead sits on Route 391 just south of King’s Point — about two minutes before the town itself, which is why this page measures the drive to the trailhead rather than borrowing the town figure. The mapped path climbs one side and comes down the other: a loop, not an out-and-back, which the profile below shows better than any sentence.

What the mountain is on the day — wind on the exposed top, the state of the stairs, whether it is in shape at all — is local knowledge, not something this page can promise. Ask in King’s Point, and check the roads before you turn off the Trans-Canada.

The full drive, with stops, moose notes and road links: the Deer Lake (YDF) route this trail hangs off →

Measured September 1, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap node/6631798777 — start of the access path off Route 391.