Trail · from Deer Lake (YDF)

Sandbanks Beaches Loop

Clear shallow water over a sand beach at Sandbanks Provincial Park, a wooded point beyond.Photo: DMH1981 · source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Mapped path: 4.5 km loop; The ends meet: that is the whole walk.
Climbing: 16 m; Every up added together; the highest point is 15 m.
To the trailhead: 268 km

Type of trail

Loop

You finish where you started without walking any of it twice.

Source: MyPacer, “Route Type: Loop”.

easyRated on the whole walk: 4.5 km round, about 16 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: 267.5 km from the Deer Lake (YDF) terminal to the trailhead — not the town. OSRM driving profile, terminal to the trailhead, checked 2026-09-05.

The trail itself: 4.5 km, 16 m of climb — the line is coloured by elevation, green at -1 m up to red at 15 m.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

The trail, measured

Sandbanks Beaches Loop: the mapped path is 4.5 km with 16 m of climbing, from -1 m up to 15 m.

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

Every cited segment →

OpenStreetMap way/1006259933 + way/1235094257; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-05.

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

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Take it on your phone or watch

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 Sandbanks Beaches Loop trailhead from every airport and ferry, measured by road.

Gander 387 km Deer Lake 268 km St. John's 719 km Port aux Basques 308 km Argentia 674 km

The measured drive is YDF → Burgeo — 2 stops on it, with the road numbers, the surface and where to eat along it.

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Getting to the trailhead — Deer Lake (YDF) to the start of the Sandbanks Beaches Loop: 268 km by road.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

4.5 km loop, 16 m of climb, 268 km by road from Deer Lake airport. Conditions on the day are local knowledge we don’t have: walk it and tell us. How we measure

The full drive from Deer Lake (YDF), with stops and moose notes →

Measured September 5, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/1006259933 — the path's mapped start.

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