Trail · from Deer Lake (YDF)
Caribou Trail
- Mapped path
- 2.6 km
- One way — the two ends lie 2.5 km apart, so the way back is this path again unless you have arranged a lift.
- Climbing
- 54 m
- To the trailhead
- 1h 52m
easyderived: 2.6 km + 54 m of climb ≈ 3 effective km — the rule is stated in code, not opinion
Drive: 139.1 km from the Deer Lake (YDF) terminal door to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal door to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-04.
The trail, measured
Caribou Trail: the mapped path is 2.6 km with 54 m of climbing, from 2 m up to 59 m. How long that takes is yours to know; what it climbs is not a matter of opinion.
Every cited segment →
OpenStreetMap way/1006235851; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-04.
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 52m from Deer Lake — 139.1 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 Caribou Trail trailhead and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, September, June34 reports on record
- Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in September, June, July26 reports on record
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, August, October25 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in October, June, July19 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. 0 of 1 have positions two independent maps agree on.
- Roy's Pub, Dining, Motel and Event Centre33 Main St · (709) 481-20308 min · 7.4 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.
Machine-measured, human-checked: 2.6 km of mapped path read as an out-and-back by its own geometry, with 54 m of accumulated climb sampled from terrain elevation data. The trailhead is 112 minutes’ measured drive from the YDF terminal door. Every path segment is cited above; what the trail is on the day — conditions, maintenance, whether the brook crossing has a bridge this year — is local knowledge this page does not pretend to have. Walk it and tell us what the numbers can’t.
The full drive, with stops, moose notes and road links: the Deer Lake (YDF) route this trail hangs off →
Measured September 4, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/1006235851 — the path's mapped start.