Trail · from Gander (YQX)

Ochre Hill Trail

Panorama from Ochre Hill over forest, ponds and bog to distant water, with the lookout tower in the foreground.Photo: Tango7174 · source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Mapped path: 2.2 km; Parks Canada gives 5 km for the whole loop; our map has only part of it.
Climbing: 58 m; Every up added together; the highest point is 174 m.
To the trailhead: 88 km

Type of trail

Loop, plus a side trail to the Bread Cove look-off and back

Round the loop and back to the start; the side trail is there and back.

Source: Parks Canada, “5 km return (loop around the pond approximately 1.5 km; trail to look off point approximately 3.5 km return)”.

easyRated on the whole walk: 5 km round, Parks Canada's length, about 58 m of climbing. How

Access: the rating measures effort only. The map records the surface as dirt 2.2 km. Step-free access isn't recorded; ask the park before you go.

Drive: 88.2 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 itself: 2.2 km, 58 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at 127 m up to red at 174 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Ochre Hill Trail: the mapped path is 2.2 km with 58 m of climbing, from 127 m up to 174 m.

to ~8% grade8–15%steeperheight exaggerated ~5×

Every cited segment →

OpenStreetMap way/492228240; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-04.

A line that ends at a different height from where it starts is a loop, not an out and back.

terrain from open elevation data — the same source as the profile above

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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 Ochre Hill Trail trailhead from every airport and ferry, measured by road.

Gander 88 km Deer Lake 391 km St. John's 253 km Port aux Basques 658 km Argentia 209 km

The measured drive is YQX → Terra Nova — 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 1 have a confirmed position.

Mary Brown's1 Trans Canada Highway Eastport Junction · (709) 533-254120 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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Getting to the trailhead — Gander (YQX) to the start of the Ochre Hill Trail: 88 km by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

2.2 km of mapped path, 58 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/492228240 — the path's mapped start.

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