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Trail · from Gander (YQX)

Carmanville Wetlands Main Line

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Mapped path
1.5 km one way
3 km there and back, unless you have arranged a lift at the far end.
Climbing
0 m
Every up added together; the highest point is 9 m.
To the trailhead
64 km

Type of trail

Not confirmed

No park, town or trail guide we could find says whether this is a loop, an out and back or a point to point, so we don't guess. On the map its two ends are 0.92 km apart.

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easyRated on the whole walk: 3 km there and back, about 0 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: 63.9 km from the Gander (YQX) terminal to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-04.

The trail itself: 1.5 km, 0 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at 5 m up to red at 9 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Carmanville Wetlands Main Line: the mapped path is 1.5 km with 0 m of climbing, from 5 m up to 9 m.

01000 km1
to ~8% grade8–15%steeperheight exaggerated ~3×

Every cited segment →OpenStreetMap way/305853289 + way/300667134; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-04.
A line that ends at a different height from where it starts is a loop, not an out and back.

terrain from open elevation data — the same source as the profile above

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  • Phone, offline: open it in Organic Maps or OsmAnd and download the map area before you lose signal.

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Getting here

To Carmanville Wetlands Main Line trailhead from every airport and ferry, measured by road.

The measured drive is YQX → Musgrave Harbour — 3 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 Carmanville Wetlands Main Line: 64 km by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

1.5 km of mapped path, 0 m of climb, 64 km by road from Gander airport. Conditions on the day are local knowledge we don’t have: walk it and tell us. How we measure

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

Measured September 4, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/305853289 — the path's mapped start.

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