Trail · from Gander (YQX)
High Tide Trail (Eastport)
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- Mapped path
- 1.3 km one way
- Damnable Trail gives 3 km there and back; the mapped path measures 2.6 km there and back.
- Climbing
- 12 m
- Every up added together; the highest point is 11 m.
- To the trailhead
- 88 km
Type of trail
Out and back
Walk to the end, turn round, come back the same way.
Source: Damnable Trail, “Hikers can return the way they came or walk back the Bank Road”.
easyRated on the whole walk: 2.6 km there and back, about 21 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: 87.6 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
High Tide Trail (Eastport): the mapped path is 1.3 km with 12 m of climbing, from 0 m up to 11 m.
Every cited segment →
OpenStreetMap way/1006573664; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-04.
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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.
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Getting here
To High Tide Trail (Eastport) trailhead 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.
Eating, when you come off
Places to eat within 25 km by road of the trailhead, nearest first. 0 of 5 have a confirmed position.
- Gertie's Galley210 Main St · (709) 677-24581.9 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Chucky's Seafood and Wild Game Restaurant8 Harbour View Rd · (709) 677-22332.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Down Home Delights64 Main St · (709) 526-20343.3 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Little Denier Restaurant13 Main St · (709) 700-47214.5 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Mary Brown's1 Trans Canada Highway Eastport Junction · (709) 533-254119 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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1.3 km out and back, 12 m of climb, 88 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/1006573664 — the path's mapped start.