Gros Morne National Park - Green Gardens
Victoria Beyer
EASTERN CANADA ROAD TRIP 2019
One of our favorite hikes of the summer, though a tough one, was Green Gardens in Gros Morne National Park. The way out is pretty much downhill, and it was pretty muddy in places. That’s half the fun, though, right? It’s not long before you can see the ocean, and eventually you come upon a green, grassy ridge that overlooks the shore.
And then there are more stairs, just in case you had not had enough.
But look at the reward! A wide beach (at low tide, anyway) fans out into low rocks that we had fun climbing on.
Some of the rocks at the beach are cracks filled with calcite and quartz. They are quite striking. We sat on some as we ate our picnic lunch and enjoyed the view.
We were hardly the only ones there, though like everywhere else we went in Newfoundland, it was not crowded.