New Brunswick trails · Purple Trail
Purple Trail
A 20.6-mile point-to-point in New Brunswick, with 386 ft of climbing.
Length
20.6 mi
Elevation gain
386 ft
Difficulty
Hard
Max grade
19%
Steepest mile
+206 ft
Tread at ≥10% grade
0.6 mi
Shape
point-to-point
Surface
Ground
Elevation profile
The climbing is spread fairly evenly along the route. It gives back about 1,221 ft along the way, so it rolls rather than climbing steadily.
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 7:16 a.m., the sun rises at 7:46 a.m. and sets at 6:45 p.m., and the last usable light fades about 7:16 p.m. (ADT) — 10 h 59 min of daylight. At about 2.7 mph plus 30 minutes per 1,000 feet of climbing, the 20.6-mile route takes roughly 7 h 50 min, so leaving the trailhead at sunrise puts you back around 3:36 p.m. — 3 h 09 min before sunset.
Nearby trails
- Guy Laforge Trail — 4.3 mi
- Fredy's Trail — 5.4 mi
- Route 12 — 6.3 mi