Trail · from St. John's (YYT)
The Spout Path
- Mapped path
- 15.1 km
- The East Coast Trail Association publishes 16.2 km. A mapped line under-reads a winding path; theirs is the figure on the signage.
- Climbing
- 759 m
- To the trailhead
- 45 min
strenuousderived: 15.1 km + 759 m of climb ≈ 21.2 effective km — the rule is stated in code, not opinion
Drive: 42.5 km from the St. John's (YYT) terminal door to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal door to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-09.
No mapped line for this path yet. The measurements above come from the ways OpenStreetMap does carry; what is missing is a single drawn line for the path as a whole, which is why there is no map of it here and no GPX to download. Walked it with a phone or a watch? Sending the track fixes both.
The trail, measured
Spout Path: the mapped path is 15.1 km with 759 m of climbing, from 0 m up to 101 m. How long that takes is yours to know; what it climbs is not a matter of opinion.
Every cited segment →
OpenStreetMap way/125018303 + way/165024657 + way/165024660 + way/165024655 + way/165024658 + way/165024654 + way/165024653 + way/165024656 + way/1098573951 + way/439362569, members of relation/2199386 (East Coast Trail, operator The East Coast Trail Association); elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-09.
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.
No one has sent a recording of this walk yet.Be the first — send the track →
Getting here
- 45 min from St. John's — 42.5 km to the trailhead.
It sits on the Irish Loop circuit — 2 stops on it, 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 Spout Path trailhead, Bay Bulls 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 July, June, August5,416 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, August, June4,475 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June3,517 reports on record
- Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in July, June, August81 reports on record
- Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in July, June, May29 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. 1 of 11 has a position two independent maps agree on.
- Paddy's Conv. & Sub Shop Ltd.Main Rd.4 min · 2.1 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Stone Ducky56 St Johns Rd · (709) 334-38254 min · 2.6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Tongue & Cheek22 Lower Road · (709) 753-48505 min · 2.8 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Sapphire Scoops24 St Johns Rd · (709) 334-22235 min · 2.9 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- The Jigger573 Main Rd · (709) 334-33305 min · 3.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Arbour Restaurant and Lounge1 Island Cove Rd · (709) 334-33886 min · 4.4 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- 241 Pizza1 Island Cove Road · (709) 334-11777 min · 4.4 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Tim HortonsHighway 10 At Witless Bayline · (709) 334-22107 min · 5.1 kmnavigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · Waze
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.
Fifteen kilometres of mapped path with 759 m of climbing in it, and the profile says what the total alone does not: it rises and falls the whole way, the highest ground barely a hundred metres above the sea, none of it one long climb. The trailhead is at Bay Bulls, which is also where the Irish Loop’s measurement opens — 42.5 km and about 45 minutes from the terminal door at St. John’s.
This is a wilderness path, not a park trail. The East Coast Trail Association builds and maintains it, publishes path advisories, and is the authority on whether it is passable today; unfenced cliff edge is normal here rather than exceptional. This page measures geometry and a drive. It does not rate difficulty, it does not tell you the trail is safe on the day, and it is not a substitute for the association’s own information — read theirs before you go, and take an advisory seriously when there is one.
What a machine can measure, it has: length from the mapped way geometry, ascent sampled every thirty metres from open terrain data, both cited above. What the path is like when you get there is the association’s to say and yours to find out.
The full drive, with stops, moose notes and road links: the measured route this trail hangs off →
Measured September 9, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/125018303 — the path's mapped end at the Bay Bulls side.