Trail · from Deer Lake (YDF)
The Green Gardens Trail
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- Mapped path
- 4.6 km one way
- 9.2 km there and back.
- Climbing
- 88 m
- Every up added together; the highest point is 254 m.
- To the trailhead
- 80 km
Type of trail
Out and back
Walk to the end, turn round, come back the same way.
Source: Parks Canada, “Green Gardens 9 km return”.
challengingRated on the whole walk: 9.2 km there and back, about 388 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. Easier access in Gros Morne, from Parks Canada →
Drive: 79.8 km from the Deer Lake (YDF) terminal to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-03.
The trail, measured
Green Gardens Trail: the mapped path is 4.6 km with 88 m of climbing, from 8 m up to 255 m. Walked back the other way, the same path climbs 300 m — downhill out is uphill home.
Every cited segment →
OpenStreetMap way/137401716; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold.
Today's trail conditions and seasonal closures are Parks Canada's — check before you climb →Park bulletins →
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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)- 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 Green Gardens trailhead from every airport and ferry, measured by road.
The measured drive is YDF → Gros Morne (Rocky Harbour) — 2 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 Green Gardens 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, August, June60 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. 1 of 10 has a confirmed position.
- Seaside Restaurant263 Main St · (709) 451-34614.2 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Riverside Takeout Trout RiverMain Steet · (709) 451-32074.4 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Knead Pizza?101 Main St · (709) 451-21014.6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Blue Whale Convenience & Diner93 Main St4.6 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- The Outback Restaurant + Pub31 Main St · (709) 931-28405.5 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- The Shed20 Cox's Ln · (709) 453-722414 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- The Old Loft Restaurant8 Water St · (709) 453-229414 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Galliott Studios and Cafe8 Water St · (709) 638-240914 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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Look at the profile above. Green Gardens starts at 255 m on the Tablelands’ barren shoulder and walks DOWN to meadows, sea stacks and cliff-top pasture at the water. So the 300 measured metres of climbing come on the way home, when your legs think the day is done. Plan for that and it is one of the park’s great walks.
4.6 mapped kilometres each way, every segment cited. The trailhead is 80 km from Deer Lake airport on Route 431, past the Tablelands. Pair it with the Tablelands trail for one day on the strangest rock the island has.
The full drive from Deer Lake (YDF), with stops and moose notes →
Measured September 3, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/137401716 — trail start off Route 431.