Description: Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland and Labrador is one of Canada's true treasures.
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Gros Morne" translates roughly from the French as "big gloomy," and if you arrive on a day when ghostly bits of fog blow across the road and scud clouds hover in the glacial valleys, you'll get a pretty good idea how this area got its name. Even on brilliantly sunny days there's something about the stark mountains, lonely fjords cut off from the ocean, and miles of tangled spruce forest that can trigger mild melancholia. Gros Morne National Park is one of Canada's true treasures, and few who visit here fail