Check out the latest video from Gros Morne National Park by Josh The Travel Guy out this past week. In his newest video he brings us to the Old Mail Road. This trail once ran the length of the Great Northern Peninsula, and it was the only land connection between the communities out this way.

With dog teams or horses, winter mail couriers travelled this route from 1882 to 1952. They would wade through freezing water, cross thin ice and battle storms, taking shelter in homes along the way. Starting in 1906, Tom Knott and his son Jim, carried the mail from Woody Point to Parsons Pond. The building of the highway in the 1950’s ended this heroic era.