Trail · from Gander (YQX)

Purcell's Harbour to Little Harbour Trail

Mapped path: 2.3 km; One way — the two ends lie 1.66 km apart, so the way back is this path again unless you have arranged a lift.
Climbing: 96 m
To the trailhead: 1h 41m

easyderived: 2.3 km + 96 m of climb ≈ 3.1 effective km — the rule is stated in code, not opinion

Drive: 107.7 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, 96 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at -1 m up to red at 46 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Purcell's Harbour to Little Harbour Trail: the mapped path is 2.3 km with 96 m of climbing, from -1 m up to 46 m. How long that takes is yours to know; what it climbs is not a matter of opinion.

to ~8% grade8–15%steepervertical stretched ~3×

Every cited segment →

OpenStreetMap way/1007810916 + way/1007810917; 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 41m from Gander — 107.7 km to the trailhead.

It sits on the Rocky Harbour ↔ Twillingate corridor, with the road numbers, the surface and where to eat along it. That route is not the drive from the airport; the figure above is.

What has been recorded near here

Species reported within 50 km of Purcell's Harbour to Little Harbour 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, August412 reports on record
Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in October, August, September184 reports on record
Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June108 reports on record
Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, June, October70 reports on record
Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in July, June, August8 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. 2 of 17 have positions two independent maps agree on.

Mary Brown's Chicken & Taters28 Toulinquet St · (709) 884-59906 min · 5.6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Lickety Split128 Main St6 min · 5.6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Robin's12a Toulinquet Rd · (709) 884-16467 min · 6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
D&T Seafood Restaurant78 Main St · (709) 884-92117 min · 6.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
TastyThai & Pizza120 Main St · (709) 893-21207 min · 6.5 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Crow's Nest Twillingate127 Main St · (709) 893-20297 min · 6.5 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
Golden Restaurant60 Main St · (709) 884-27478 min · 6.5 kmnavigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · Waze
D&T Restaurant68 Main St · (709) 884-92118 min · 6.7 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 Purcell's Harbour to Little Harbour Trail: 107.7 km, about 1h 41m 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 96 m of accumulated climb sampled from terrain elevation data. The trailhead is 101 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 measured route this trail hangs off →

Measured September 4, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/1007810916 — the path's mapped start.