Trail · from Deer Lake (YDF)
The Tablelands Trail
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- Mapped path
- 2 km one way
- 4 km there and back.
- Climbing
- 73 m
- Every up added together; the highest point is 234 m.
- To the trailhead
- 72 km
Type of trail
Out and back
Walk to the end, turn round, come back the same way.
Source: Parks Canada, “4 km return”.
easyRated on the whole walk: 4 km there and back, about 75 m of climbing. How
Access: the rating measures effort only. The map records the surface as unpaved 1.8 km, boardwalk 0.2 km. Step-free access isn't recorded; ask the park before you go. Easier access in Gros Morne, from Parks Canada →
Drive: 72.1 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
Tablelands Trail: the mapped path is 2 km with 73 m of climbing, from 163 m up to 234 m.
Every cited segment →
OpenStreetMap way/500283889 + way/500283888 + way/349593018 + way/500283892; elevation from AWS Open Data Terrarium tiles (z14), sampled ~30 m, ascent over a 3 m noise threshold; measured 2026-09-03.
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.
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Getting here
To Tablelands Trail 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 Tablelands 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 July, August, September72 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.
- The Shed20 Cox's Ln · (709) 453-72245.9 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- The Old Loft Restaurant8 Water St · (709) 453-22945.9 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Galliott Studios and Cafe8 Water St · (709) 638-24095.9 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Merchant Warehouse Retro Cafe and Wine Bar16 Water St · (709) 453-24165.9 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- The Chocolate Moose Bakery & CafeTableland Drive, Birchy Head (upstairs at Roy Young Ltd, watch for the big Moose!) · (709) 458-852911 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Seaside Restaurant263 Main St · (709) 451-346112 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Riverside Takeout Trout RiverMain Steet · (709) 451-320713 kmunconfirmed — go by the address
- Blue Whale Convenience & Diner93 Main St13 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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This is an out-and-back, 2.0 km each way along the mapped path, and the profile climbs without coming back down. The Tablelands are a slab of the Earth’s mantle pushed up where two plates collided, the same collision the Dover Fault shows on the island’s other side. The orange, life-poor ground underfoot is why Gros Morne holds its UNESCO listing. The park’s interpreters tell that story. This page gives the numbers: 73 measured metres of climb, a trailhead 72 km from Deer Lake airport, and every path segment cited above.
Wind down Trout River gulch, or snow lingering into summer some years, is for Parks Canada and the weather to report. Gros Morne National Park maintains this trail’s relation in OpenStreetMap.
There is a bigger climb. From the marked trail’s far end, OpenStreetMap carries an “Off Trail Hike” line (relation 15976461) running 9.0 measured kilometres with 501 m of ascent onto the 671 m plateau. It has its own measured page, published under a serious-undertaking advisory: it is unmarked barrens where navigation is the skill being tested, and Parks Canada’s guided walks are the safe way in. The 2.0 km here is the walk anyone can take. The plateau page gives the facts and leaves the judgment to you and the park.
The full drive from Deer Lake (YDF), with stops and moose notes →
Measured September 3, 2026. Trailhead: OpenStreetMap way/500283889 — the path's start at the Route 431 parking area.