Trail · from Gander (YQX)
The Edgar Baird Lakeside Trail
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- Mapped path
- 2.1 km one way
- 4.2 km there and back, unless you have arranged a lift at the far end.
- Climbing
- 96 m
- Every up added together; the highest point is 103 m.
- To the trailhead
- 8.4 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 1.53 km apart.
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easyRated on the whole walk: 4.2 km there and back, about 118 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: 8.4 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, measured
Edgar Baird Lakeside Trail: the mapped path is 2.1 km with 96 m of climbing, from 29 m up to 103 m.
Every cited segment →
OpenStreetMap way/1070017204 + way/1070022047 + way/1070022046; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold.
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Getting here
To Edgar Baird Lakeside Trail trailhead from every airport and ferry, measured by road.
The measured drive is YQX → Lewisporte — 7 stops on it, with the road numbers, the surface and where to eat along it.
Eating, when you come off
Places to eat within 25 km by road of the trailhead, nearest first. 0 of 25 have a confirmed position.
- Swiss Chalet92 Laurel Rd · (709) 256-70056.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Harvey's92 Laurel Road · (709) 201-00166.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Dairy Queen Grill & Chill100 Trans-Canada Hwy · (709) 606-22856.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Big Stop Restaurant300 Trans-Canada Hwy · (709) 256-78866.5 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- McCafé320 Airport Blvd.6.5 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- McDonald's320 Airport Blvd. · (709) 651-22016.5 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Subway318 Airport Blvd · (709) 651-24006.5 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Tai Sun Restaurant298 Airport Blvd · (709) 651-28016.6 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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A trail for your first afternoon: 8.4 km from collecting your bags to a mapped 2.1 km path on the slope above Gander Lake. It is named for the forester whose family name runs deep in this town. The 96 m of ascent rolls rather than climbs, as the profile above shows. Most visitors pass the lake on the highway without stopping.
OpenStreetMap holds far more named trails than relations, and the sweep that found this one found others waiting. Every trail here is measured from the open map, cited way by way, and downloadable as a plain GPX with no account needed.
The full drive from Gander (YQX), with stops and moose notes →
Measured September 4, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/1070017204 — the trail's south end above Gander Lake.