Trail · from St. John's (YYT)
The Deadmans Bay Path
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- Length
- 10.5 km one way
- The association's length. Most walk it one way with a lift waiting; there and back is 21 km.
- Our mapped line reads 9.8 km; a mapped line under-reads a winding path, so the figure above is the association's.
- Climbing
- 427 m
- Every up added together; the highest point is 223 m.
- To the trailhead
- 20 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: East Coast Trail Association, “Route: Fort Amherst (St. John's) to Blackhead”.
moderate to difficultThe East Coast Trail Association's rating, for the path walked one way: 10.5 km and about 427 m of climbing. How
Access: the rating measures effort only. The map records the surface as earth 8.5 km, boardwalk 0.1 km. Step-free access isn't recorded; ask the park before you go.
East Coast Trail, path 10 of 25. The association allows 4 to 7 hours and rates it moderate to difficult. It joins Sugarloaf Path to the north and Cape Spear Path to the south. Walking it one way, your lift waits where the next path starts: that end is 13 km by road from St. John's airport. The GPX marks it "Path end". Every path →
Drive: 20.2 km from the St. John's (YYT) terminal to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-09.
The trail, measured
Deadmans Bay Path: the mapped path is 9.8 km with 427 m of climbing, from 0 m up to 225 m.
Every cited segment →
OpenStreetMap way/439044776 + way/439044774 + way/439044773 + way/505373989 + way/955514331 + way/955514330 + way/955514333 + way/955514332 + way/955514329 + way/955514328; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold, members of relation/2199386 (East Coast Trail, operator The East Coast Trail Association); measured 2026-09-09.
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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)The file follows the mapped line, 9.8 km; the signed path is 10.5 km. Expect your watch to read about 0.7 km short at the finish.
- 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.
No recorded track yet.Walked it? Send yours →
Getting here
To Deadmans Bay Path trailhead from every airport and ferry, measured by road.
It sits on the Irish Loop circuit — 7 stops on it, with the road numbers, the surface and where to eat along it. The distance above is the drive there.
What has been recorded near here
Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Deadmans Bay Path trailhead, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, June, August2,688 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, August, June986 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, June, August193 reports on record
- Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in June, July, May24 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. 3 of 25 have a confirmed position.
- Cape Spear CafeCape Spear, Blackhead Rd · (709) 765-18363.7 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Joanie's Snack Bar55c Linegar Ave · (709) 726-43938.9 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Waterwest Kitchen & Meats720 Topsail Road · (709) 800-623110 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Tim Hortons696 Water Street West · (709) 739-169611 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Station Lounge7 Hutchings St · (709) 722-857611 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- West End Club14 Hamilton Ave · (709) 722-250411 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Atlantic Place -Jumping Bean CoffeeAtlantic Place · (709) 754-462711 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Cape Coffee5 Springdale St12 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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20 km from the terminal. Unlike the Spout Path, it climbs almost straight off the start, from sea level to 225 m in the first third, holds the height along the top, then drops back to the water. Four hundred and twenty-seven metres of ascent in under ten kilometres, most of it early; the rest is cliff-top walking with the sea a long way down.
This is a wilderness path, not a park trail. The East Coast Trail Association builds and maintains it, publishes path advisories, and decides whether it is passable today. Unfenced cliff edge is normal here. The rating above covers length and climb only. It does not tell you the trail is safe on the day. Read the association’s information before you go, and take any advisory seriously.
Length comes from the mapped way geometry, and ascent from open terrain data sampled every thirty metres. Both are cited above.
Measured September 9, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/439044776 — the path's mapped end.