Trail · from Gander (YQX)
The Coastal Ridge Trail (Salvage)
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- Mapped path
- 13.1 km one way
- One way, with a lift waiting at the far end; 26.2 km if you walk it back.
- Climbing
- 531 m
- Every up added together; the highest point is 158 m.
- To the trailhead
- 98 km
Type of trail
Point to point
A trailhead at each end: walk it one way with a car or a lift waiting, or turn round and walk it back.
Source: Damnable Trail, “a long linear path”.
challengingRated one way, for the path walked one way: 13.1 km and about 531 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: 97.5 km from the Gander (YQX) terminal to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-03.
The trail, measured
Coastal Ridge Trail: the mapped path is 13.1 km with 531 m of climbing, from 4 m up to 159 m.
Every cited segment →
OpenStreetMap way/702104469 + way/1007789871 + way/1007789870 + way/1007789869; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold.
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- 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
To Coastal Ridge Trail trailhead (Salvage) from every airport and ferry, measured by road.
The measured drive is YQX → Salvage — 4 stops on it, with the road numbers, the surface and where to eat along it.
What has been recorded near here
Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Coastal Ridge Trail trailhead (Salvage), and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June239 reports on record
Reports, not counts: busy harbours report more. No sighting is promised, and the list covers only the species we look up. Source: GBIF, the international record of wildlife sightings, checked 2026-10-07.
Eating, when you come off
Places to eat within 25 km by road of the trailhead, nearest first. 0 of 4 have a confirmed position.
- Gertie's Galley210 Main St · (709) 677-245812 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Chucky's Seafood and Wild Game Restaurant8 Harbour View Rd · (709) 677-223312 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Down Home Delights64 Main St · (709) 526-203413 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Little Denier Restaurant13 Main St · (709) 700-472114 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
No opening hours: the map data for these places has none. Phone ahead. Built 2026-10-11.
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The number that matters here is not the summit: the trail never gets above 159 m. It is the 531 accumulated metres of up-and-down as the mapped path rides headland after headland along Salvage’s outer coast. You earn every lookout twice, once climbing to it and once giving it back.
The trailhead is in the village, at the end of the measured drive from Gander: 98 km to the trailhead. Salvage also has a wider mapped trail network (the “Salvage Trails” system in OpenStreetMap). It branches too much for this site to measure as one line, so this page covers the ridge line that chains end to end. The rest of the network is still to be added.
The full drive from Gander (YQX), with stops and moose notes →
Measured September 3, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/702104469 — the trail's start in Salvage.