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Trail · from Gander (YQX)

Pilley's Island Lookout Trail

Mapped path
2.3 km
One way — the two ends lie 1.45 km apart, so the way back is this path again unless you have arranged a lift.
Climbing
90 m
To the trailhead
2h 53m

easyderived: 2.3 km + 90 m of climb ≈ 3 effective km — the rule is stated in code, not opinion

Drive: 214 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: 2.3 km, 90 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at 21 m up to red at 80 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Pilley's Island Lookout Trail: the mapped path is 2.3 km with 90 m of climbing, from 21 m up to 80 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 ~5×

Every cited segment →OpenStreetMap way/1007815904; 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

  • 2h 53m from Gander — 214 km to the trailhead.

The measured drive is YDF → Long Island — 2 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 Pilley's Island Lookout Trail trailhead and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.

  • Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in September, July, October39 reports on record
  • Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, June, August19 reports on record
  • Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, June17 reports on record
  • Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in July, June, August5 reports on record
  • Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in June2 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 9 have positions two independent maps agree on.

  • Causeway Express & Spencer's Diner84 Main St · (709) 869-20302 min · 0.9 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Spencer's Diner84 Main St · (709) 869-20303 min · 2 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Greco Pizza84 Main St · (709) 652-30273 min · 2 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Fudge's RestaurantMain St · (709) 263-25027 min · 6.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Nevaehs cafe dinnerHwy 380 · (709) 263-22198 min · 7.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Fudge's Restaurant & Motel10 Main St · (709) 263-25029 min · 8.6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Just Chillin Cafe / Internet Cafe / Restaurant / Greenhouse50 Main St · (709) 869-860011 min · 9.8 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
  • Triton Ocean Products363 Main St · (709) 263-629811 min · 10.8 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 Pilley's Island Lookout Trail: 214 km, about 2h 53m by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

Machine-measured, human-checked: 2.3 km of mapped path read as an out-and-back by its own geometry, with 90 m of accumulated climb sampled from terrain elevation data. The trailhead is 173 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 Deer Lake (YDF) route this trail hangs off →

Measured September 4, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/1007815904 — the path's mapped start.