Trail · from Deer Lake (YDF)

Sandbanks Beaches Loop

Mapped path: 4.5 km; The ends meet: that is the whole walk.
Climbing: 16 m
To the trailhead: 3h 56m

easyderived: 4.5 km + 16 m of climb ≈ 4.6 effective km — the rule is stated in code, not opinion

Drive: 267.5 km from the Deer Lake (YDF) terminal door to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal door to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-05.

The trail itself: 4.5 km, 16 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at -1 m up to red at 15 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Sandbanks Beaches Loop: the mapped path is 4.5 km with 16 m of climbing, from -1 m up to 15 m. How long that takes is yours to know; what it climbs is not a matter of opinion.

to ~8% grade8–15%steepervertical stretched ~5×

Every cited segment →

OpenStreetMap way/1006259933 + way/1235094257; 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

3h 56m from Deer Lake — 267.5 km to the trailhead.

The measured drive is YDF → Burgeo — 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 Sandbanks Beaches Loop trailhead and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.

Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August202 reports on record
Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in January, July, June14 reports on record
Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, June, September12 reports on record
Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in July1 reports on record
Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in January1 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.

No photograph yet — the profile and the map are the honest visuals until someone who has walked it sends theirs.

Getting to the trailhead — Deer Lake (YDF) to the start of the Sandbanks Beaches Loop: 267.5 km, about 3h 56m by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

Machine-measured, human-checked: 4.5 km of mapped path read as an out-and-back by its own geometry, with 16 m of accumulated climb sampled from terrain elevation data. The trailhead is 236 minutes’ measured drive from the YDF 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 5, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/1006259933 — the path's mapped start.