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Trail · from Gander (YQX)

Peter's River Hiking Trail

Mapped path
2.5 km
One way — the two ends lie 2.04 km apart, so the way back is this path again unless you have arranged a lift.
Climbing
28 m
To the trailhead
1h 13m

easyderived: 2.5 km + 28 m of climb ≈ 2.7 effective km — the rule is stated in code, not opinion

Drive: 90.3 km from the Gander (YQX) terminal door to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal door to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-04.

The trail itself: 2.5 km, 28 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at 14 m up to red at 26 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Peter's River Hiking Trail: the mapped path is 2.5 km with 28 m of climbing, from 14 m up to 26 m. How long that takes is yours to know; what it climbs is not a matter of opinion.

01000 km12
to ~8% grade8–15%steepervertical stretched ~6×

Every cited segment →OpenStreetMap way/865997351; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-04.
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 13m from Gander — 90.3 km to the trailhead.

The measured drive is YQX → Botwood — 1 stop 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 Peter's River Hiking 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, July, August14 reports on record
  • Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, June10 reports on record
  • Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in 5 reports on record
  • Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in June, October4 reports on record
  • Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in June, July2 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. 3 of 14 have positions two independent maps agree on.

  • Donninis Express and Railway Cafe250 Water St · (709) 389-13136 min · 5.5 kmnavigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · Waze
  • Mary Brown's Chicken and Taters35 Commonwealth Dr · (709) 257-24446 min · 5.7 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • the landing pub258 Water St · (709) 257-37176 min · 5.7 kmnavigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · Waze
  • Mary Brown'sCommonwealth Drive (P.O. Box 422), Botwood, NL A0H 1E0, Canada6 min · 6.2 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Graceland The Kings Pub NL134 Main Street.....Northern Arm · (709) 257-35519 min · 8.8 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • The Gravy Train Take-Out - Whitbourne500 Main St · (709) 759-355911 min · 7.8 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Tim Hortons8 Trans Canada Highway · (709) 258-215614 min · 15.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Bishop's Falls Irving Circle K RestaurantTrans Canada HWY · (709) 258-685214 min · 15.3 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 — Gander (YQX) to the start of the Peter's River Hiking Trail: 90.3 km, about 1h 13m by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

Machine-measured, human-checked: 2.5 km of mapped path read as an out-and-back by its own geometry, with 28 m of accumulated climb sampled from terrain elevation data. The trailhead is 73 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 4, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/865997351 — the path's mapped start.