Sample Trip Itinerary

Day 1 - Sunday Arrival and Orientation

Tour Gros Morne offers a shuttle service from Deer Lake Airport to your accommodations. Once you’ve arrived, we’ll meet at 6:30 pm for an evening orientation and dinner.

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Day 2 - Green Gardens Trail 
Notes: This trail is 10 km return, with 300 meters of elevation. Moderate difficulty.

Duration: 5 hours over rock, meadow, beach and forest
Your guide will shuttle you to the Green Gardens trailhead. This trail, which descends 300 m to sea level, is one of the most diverse hikes in the park. You’ll cross the rock of the Earth’s mantle, traverse Arctic alpine rock gardens and descend into a boreal forest valley, home to some of the oldest and largest trees in the park. At the coast, explore grassy meadows, ancient volcanic seastacks and rugged cliffs left behind by an ancient volcanic island arc. Then, head to the coastline to find hidden waterfalls and sea caves.

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Day 3 - Western Brook Pond 6km, easy

Notes: This trail is 6 km return, easy
Today, you’ll learn about local culture and history, then relax on Western Brook Pond with a boat tour. Your guide will bring you to Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse, where park staff will regale you with stories about the local history of the area. Then, walk back through time at the Green Point geological site and look for ancient marine fossils at your feet. Next, you’ll stroll over coastal lowlands, surveying bogs and barrens with beautiful wildflowers. Lunch is served overlooking 2000-foot cliffs at the wharf in Western Brook Pond. Your boat tour takes you 16 km into the fjord, where you’ll see spectacular waterfalls tumbling from the alpine plateau! Finish up with an ice cream and a water shuttle back to Woody Point across scenic Bonne Bay

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Day 4- Little Lookout and Half-Day Tablelands
Notes: 10 km, 300-500 meters elevation, moderate difficulty.
Duration: 6 hours combined through forest and over loose mantle rock, bog
The “Little” Lookout Trail is a 5-km trek up Partridge Hill. As you climb the switchback trail, you’ll be presented with marvellous views of Woody Point, Bonne Bay and the Tablelands. At the top, sit down and relax in a pair of iconic Parks Canada red chairs, where you’ll take in one of the very best views in the entire park, stretching from Gros Morne Mountain to the Tablelands.
In the afternoon, you’ll conquer the Tablelands. An incredible and rare spectacle of mountainous mantle rock, the Tablelands were thrust onto the Earth’s surface almost 500 million years ago, when an ancient ocean was created and destroyed. Usually far below the Earth’s crust, this is one of the few places in the world to see mantle rock. Your guide will lead you on a 4-km walk and reveal why it’s so rare. You’ll then be led off-trail to hike up the mountainside next to a waterfall to “the bowl.” Sit perched on the edge of the Tablelands and marvel at the beauty of the park below. 

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Day 5 - Departure

This morning, you have an opportunity to add a half-day hike or explore on your own before you’re shuttled to Deer Lake for your flight home - or another journey elsewhere in Newfoundland. We hope you had the trip of a lifetime!

 

Please note this is a sample itinerary and may change due to weather and availability.​ An easier version of the hikes is also available. Please contact us for options.