Trail · from Gander (YQX)

Sandy Pond Trail

A sandy beach with sand bars in shallow water, spruce forest round the shore.Photo: Mgifford · source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Length: 3 km loop; Parks Canada's figure for the whole loop.; Our mapped line reads 3.2 km; a mapped line under-reads a winding path, so the figure above is Parks Canada's.
Climbing: 60 m; Every up added together; the highest point is 103 m.
To the trailhead: 88 km

Type of trail

Loop

You finish where you started without walking any of it twice.

Source: Parks Canada, “Length/Distance: 3 km loop”.

easyRated on the whole walk: 3 km round, about 60 m of climbing. How

Access: the rating measures effort only. Surface isn't recorded for most of it. Step-free access isn't recorded; ask the park before you go.

Drive: 88.4 km from the Gander (YQX) terminal to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal door to the trailhead, checked 2026-10-11.

The trail itself: 3.2 km, 60 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at 78 m up to red at 103 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Sandy Pond Trail: the mapped path is 3.2 km with 60 m of climbing, from 78 m up to 103 m.

to ~8% grade8–15%steeperheight exaggerated ~4×

Every cited segment →

OpenStreetMap way/500803241 + way/500803246 + way/500803238 + way/500803237 + way/500803244 + way/500803243 + way/500803247 + way/500803242 + way/500803240 + way/500803239 (Geofabrik extract of 2026-09-20, Overpass being down); elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-10-11.

A line that ends at a different height from where it starts is a loop, not an out and back.

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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)

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.

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Getting here

88 km from Gander to the trailhead.

The measured drive is YQX → Terra Nova — 4 stops on it, with the road numbers, the surface and where to eat along it.

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Getting to the trailhead — Gander (YQX) to the start of the Sandy Pond Trail: 88 km by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

3.2 km of mapped path with 60 m of climb in total. The trailhead is 88 km by road from Gander airport. The numbers come from the map. Parks Canada reports how the path is on the day; their page is linked above.

The full drive from Gander (YQX), with stops and moose notes →

Measured October 11, 2026. Trailhead: Parks Canada's trailhead GPS (48 29 33 N, 54 1 11 W), on the mapped loop round Sandy Pond.

Hear when iceberg season looks worth the trip