New Brunswick trails · Big Brook Trail
Big Brook Trail
A 6.7-mile out-and-back in New Brunswick, with 1,013 ft of climbing.
Length
6.7 mi
Elevation gain
1,013 ft
Difficulty
Hard
Max grade
30%
Steepest mile
+450 ft
Tread at ≥10% grade
0.8 mi
Shape
out-and-back
Bikes
no
Elevation profile
Most of the climbing sits in the final third — 70% of the ascent, between mile 4.5 and mile 6.7.
3-D terrain
NRCAN MRDEM ELEVATION × ESRI WORLD IMAGERY · VERTICAL ×1.5
Daylight at the trailhead
On October 14, 2026 — the day this page was generated — first light reaches this trailhead at 7:13 a.m., the sun rises at 7:43 a.m. and sets at 6:41 p.m., and the last usable light fades about 7:12 p.m. (ADT) — 10 h 58 min of daylight. At about 2.7 mph plus 30 minutes per 1,000 feet of climbing, the 13.5-mile round trip takes roughly 6 h 00 min, so leaving the trailhead at sunrise puts you back around 1:44 p.m. — 4 h 58 min before sunset.
Loop options
- Big Brook Trail + Ruisseau Dry Brook + Mount / Mont Head — 15.1 mi loop, 1,964 ft gain
Nearby trails
- Sentier Nepisiguit Mi'gmaq Trail — 1.5 mi
- Ruisseau Dry Brook — 3.0 mi
- Mount / Mont Head — 3.2 mi
- Mount Sagamook Trail — 3.2 mi