New Brunswick trails · Piste Madawaska
Piste Madawaska
A 7.8-mile out-and-back in New Brunswick, with 478 ft of climbing.
Elevation profile
The climbing is spread fairly evenly along the route. It gives back about 398 ft along the way, so it rolls rather than climbing steadily.
3-D terrain
NRCAN MRDEM ELEVATION × ESRI WORLD IMAGERY · VERTICAL ×1.5
Getting there
Piste Madawaska access. 47.36257, -68.35281 · directions
Daylight at the trailhead
On October 14, 2026 — the day this page was generated — first light reaches this trailhead at 7:19 a.m., the sun rises at 7:50 a.m. and sets at 6:48 p.m., and the last usable light fades about 7:18 p.m. (ADT) — 10 h 58 min of daylight. At about 2.7 mph plus 30 minutes per 1,000 feet of climbing, the 15.6-mile round trip takes roughly 6 h 16 min, so leaving the trailhead at sunrise puts you back around 2:05 p.m. — 4 h 42 min before sunset.
Loop options
- Piste Madawaska + Piste Baker Brook + Piste Iroquois — 2.5 mi loop, 262 ft gain
- Piste Madawaska + Piste Sault Azair + Piste St-Jean — 6.4 mi loop, 1,057 ft gain
- Piste La Green + Piste Madawaska + Piste Winding Eddy — 8.8 mi loop, 810 ft gain
Nearby trails
- Piste Tobique — 0.0 mi