More from Gros Morne National Park

First, I should show you, this is Gros Morne. The translation given by Parks Canada is big lonely mountain. This view is from our campground. The mountain is the second highest peak in Newfoundland and its flat top is a piece of arctic tundra. A 10+ mile strenuous hike will take you to the peak and back. We passed.

We are staying at a KOA, and if at first it looks like a typical KOA you just have to look a little further.

At the end of our row, just past the playground is Spirity Pond. Moose Trail takes you around the pond. We haven’t walked it yet.

If you’ve got a tent or smaller rig there are plenty of other sites.

And these offer a lot more privacy.

Besides cabins (or Kabins as they are called at KOA) they have a couple of these little domes.

And like pretty much everywhere in Newfoundland, they have beautiful views.

Gros Morne National Park is quite large and there are 11 small communities that are surrounded by or adjacent to the park. Yesterday we went to Trout River, a small fishing village at the southwest corner of the park.

It has a nice harbor where the Trout River enters the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

They have an active fishing fleet. We talked to a fisherman who said he and those he was fishing with just got back from two weeks up near Labrador fishing for turbot.

It’s very isolated, 84 miles from the nearest town large enough to have a Walmart.

Today we took a hike in another small section of the park. The hike started in Lomond, which had been a company logging town and is now a campground.

We went away from the water through the woods and

up and over a saddle in the hills.

This is looking back down the way we came.

We came down the other side to Stanleyville, which was once a fishing village. Now it has a set of the famous Parks Canada red Adirondack chairs. These are placed strategically at view points in all the Canadian National Parks.