Trail · from Gander (YQX)

Dead Man's Cove Trail

Mapped path: 3.1 km; One way — the two ends lie 0.71 km apart, so the way back is this path again unless you have arranged a lift.
Climbing: 57 m
To the trailhead: 4h 10m

easyderived: 3.1 km + 57 m of climb ≈ 3.6 effective km — the rule is stated in code, not opinion

Drive: 282 km from the Gander (YQX) terminal door to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal door to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-05.

The trail itself: 3.1 km, 57 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at 0 m up to red at 37 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Dead Man's Cove Trail: the mapped path is 3.1 km with 57 m of climbing, from 0 m up to 37 m. How long that takes is yours to know; what it climbs is not a matter of opinion.

to ~8% grade8–15%steepervertical stretched ~7×

Every cited segment →

OpenStreetMap way/1006502320 + way/1006502321 + way/1454827816 + way/1454827817 + way/1454827818 + way/1454827819; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-05.

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

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

4h 10m from Gander — 282 km to the trailhead.

The measured drive is YQX → Harbour Breton — 3 stops on it, with the road numbers, the surface and where to eat along it.

What has been recorded near here

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

Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in June, August, July116 reports on record
Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, June, August44 reports on record
Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, June, August35 reports on record
Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in August, September, March19 reports on record
Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in June, September, December16 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. 1 of 9 has a position two independent maps agree on.

Robin's Donuts96 Canada Drive · (709) 885-20162 min · 1.5 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Ernie's Snack Bar and Takeout110 Canada Dr · (709) 885-24063 min · 1.8 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Greco Pizza Xpress98 Canada Drive #96 · (709) 885-22833 min · 1.8 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Mary Brown's30 Canada Drive, Harbour Breton, NL A0H 1P0, Canada3 min · 2.2 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Mary Brown's Chicken and Taters30 Canada Dr · (709) 885-33003 min · 2.6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Robin's Donuts120-122 Canada Drive4 min · 3.6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Funship Internet Cafe37 Elliott Dr4 min · 3.2 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Dockside Cafe and EateryElliott Drive · (709) 885-21114 min · 3.5 kmnavigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · Waze

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 — Gander (YQX) to the start of the Dead Man's Cove Trail: 282 km, about 4h 10m by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

Machine-measured, human-checked: 3.1 km of mapped path read as an out-and-back by its own geometry, with 57 m of accumulated climb sampled from terrain elevation data. The trailhead is 250 minutes’ measured drive from the YQX 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 Gander (YQX) route this trail hangs off →

Measured September 5, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/1006502320 — the path's mapped start.