Trail · from Gander (YQX)
Joe Batt's Point Trail
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- Mapped path
- 2.3 km one way
- 4.6 km there and back.
- Climbing
- 7 m
- Every up added together; the highest point is 9 m.
- To the trailhead
- 131 km
Type of trail
Out and back
Walk to the end, turn round, come back the same way.
Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, “The trail is 4.6-km round trip”.
easyRated on the whole walk: 4.6 km there and back, about 17 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: 130.8 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
Joe Batt's Point Trail: the mapped path is 2.3 km with 7 m of climbing, from 0 m up to 9 m.
Every cited segment →
OpenStreetMap way/586023760; 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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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.
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Getting here
To Joe Batt's Point Trail trailhead from every airport and ferry, measured by road.
The measured drive is YQX → Fogo Island — 1 stop 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 Joe Batt's Point Trail trailhead, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in August, July, June108 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, June, January41 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.
- Growlers Ice Cream Shop125 Main Street · (709) 658-70152.9 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Kenna's PubHwy 333 · (709) 266-123013 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- The Cod Jigger Diner3 Central, Main Street · (709) 266-120013 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Vanessa's Take-Out and ConvenienceMain St · (709) 627-333319 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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2.3 km out and back, 7 m of climb, 131 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/586023760 — the path's mapped start.