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Trail · from St. John's (YYT)

Father Troy's Path

Length
8.9 km one way
The association's length. Most walk it one way with a lift waiting; there and back is 17.8 km.
Our mapped line reads 6.4 km; our map has only part of it, so the figure above is the association's.
Climbing
293 m
Every up added together; the highest point is 121 m.
To the trailhead
12 km

Type of trail

Point to point

A trailhead at each end: walk it one way with a car or a lift waiting, or turn round and walk it back.

Source: East Coast Trail Association, “Route: Flatrock to Torbay”.

easyThe East Coast Trail Association's rating, for the path walked one way: 8.9 km and about 293 m of climbing. How

Access: the rating measures effort only. The map records the surface as earth 6.4 km. Step-free access isn't recorded; ask the park before you go.

East Coast Trail, path 6 of 25. The association allows 2 to 4 hours and rates it easy. It joins Stiles Cove Path to the north and Silver Mine Head Path to the south. Walking it one way, your lift waits where the next path starts: that end is 16 km by road from St. John's airport. The GPX marks it "Path end". Every path →

Drive: 12.1 km from the St. John's (YYT) terminal to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal door to the trailhead, checked 2026-10-06.

The trail itself: 6.4 km, 293 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at -7 m up to red at 121 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Father Troy's Path: the mapped path is 6.4 km with 293 m of climbing, from -7 m up to 121 m.

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Every cited segment →OpenStreetMap way/438878576 + way/1548652730 + way/1548652731, members of relation/2199386 (East Coast Trail, operator The East Coast Trail Association); elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-10-06.
A line that ends at a different height from where it starts is a loop, not an out and back.

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Take it on your phone or watch

Only useful with a hiking app or a GPS watch. Just heading to the start? Use the directions above.

Save the track for a hiking or watch app (GPX)

The file follows the mapped line, 6.4 km; the signed path is 8.9 km. Expect your watch to read about 2.5 km short at the finish.

  • Garmin: import it as a Course in Garmin Connect, then send it to your watch.
  • Apple Watch: open it in a route app that runs on the watch, such as WorkOutDoors or Footpath.
  • Suunto, COROS, Polar: import it as a route in the watch's app, then sync.
  • Phone, offline: open it in Organic Maps or OsmAnd and download the map area before you lose signal.

Just a file: no account, nothing tracked.

No recorded track yet.Walked it? Send yours →

Getting here

  • 12 km from St. John's to the trailhead.

The measured drive is YYT → Portugal Cove ferry terminal, with the road numbers, the surface and where to eat along it.

What has been recorded near here

Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Father Troy's Path trailhead, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.

  • Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in June, July, May366 reports on record
  • Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in August, July, June83 reports on record
  • Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, June, August57 reports on record

Reports, not counts: busy harbours report more. No sighting is promised, and the list covers only the species we look up. Source: GBIF, the international record of wildlife sightings, checked 2026-10-07.

Eating, when you come off

Places to eat within 25 km by road of the trailhead, nearest first. 9 of 24 have a confirmed position.

No opening hours: the map data for these places has none. Phone ahead. Built 2026-10-11.

No photo yet. Walked it? Send yours.

Getting to the trailhead — St. John's (YYT) to the start of the Father Troy's Path: 12 km by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

6.4 km of path, with 293 m of climb in total. The trailhead is 12 km by road from St. John’s airport. The numbers come from the map. Mud, washouts or a missing bridge are local knowledge we don’t have. Walk it and tell us.

The full drive from St. John's (YYT), with stops and moose notes →

Measured October 6, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/438878576 — the path's mapped start.

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