Lewisporte → Boyd's Cove
Lewisporte to Boyd's Cove
Getting to the start from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 49.6 km
- Drive time
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⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
- Route 341 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 24 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 340 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 44 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 88% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 8, 2026, town centre to town centre, checked 2026-09-08; measured in both directions and identical each way. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
49.6 km, the same each way. Lewisporte to Boyd’s Cove on Routes 341 and 340, north-east between the bay and the Road to the Isles. The turn comes before the causeways to New World Island and Twillingate.
What it settles. A town with beds is 50 km from the Beothuk site, each way.
Sunrise and sunset at Boyd's Cove, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:59 am | 4:35 pm |
| February | 7:18 am | 5:26 pm |
| March | 7:23 am | 7:12 pm |
| April | 6:17 am | 7:59 pm |
| May | 5:25 am | 8:44 pm |
| June | 5:01 am | 9:16 pm |
| July | 5:18 am | 9:10 pm |
| August | 5:59 am | 8:27 pm |
| September | 6:43 am | 7:23 pm |
| October | 7:28 am | 6:19 pm |
| November | 7:19 am | 4:27 pm |
| December | 7:58 am | 4:09 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.
Places to eat on the way
5 near the start: where to eat in Lewisporte →
Nothing mapped between the two ends.
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-09-12. How we measure · Add a missing place
New place to eat, or one that's missing? This list comes from OpenStreetMap, so nobody can pay to be on it. Add it to the map yourself (about twenty minutes on a phone), or email us the details and we'll put it on the map.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Lewisporte km 3
- Longest stretch without one
- 47 km
- Lewisporte → Boyd's Cove, of 50 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Boyd's Cove
- 46.9 km
- by road, at Lewisporte
No fast charger at Boyd's Cove. From Lewisporte it is 47 km there and the same back: plan on about 94 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Lewisporte, 46.9 km from Boyd's Cove by road, off this drive's own road.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-22. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 96% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 4%
- 1.6 km of 49.6 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 96%
- 33.2 km: surface not recorded
In a rental car: Hertz Canada’s terms say “use off paved roads or on roads which are not regularly maintained” voids the damage waiver. Check your own agreement. Hertz’s terms ↗. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-09-08. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
Beothuk Interpretation CentreThe province operates it seasonally — dates are theirs
The provincial historic sites network runs the centre at Boyd's Cove, above the excavated Beothuk site. Check the operator's page for dates, hours and admission before you plan an afternoon around it.
seethesites.ca →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Routes 341 and 340 are unlit two-lane road for nearly all of it, so take care on the drive back after closing time.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 340 is the Road to the Isles' corridor and carries traffic to Twillingate beyond this turn-off. Check before winter driving; there is no parallel road.
511nl.ca →
Onward from Boyd's Cove
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
Questions
How far is the drive?＋
49.6 km, measured town centre to town centre on the OSRM driving profile. It is the same in both directions.
Why would I drive it?＋
Boyd's Cove has the Beothuk site; Lewisporte is where you can sleep, stock up and leave a boat. Basing yourself in Lewisporte costs 50 km each way, not a day.
Can I do it from Gander or Deer Lake instead?＋
Yes, both have their own pages: Lewisporte is 63 km from Gander and 276 km from Deer Lake. This page is the leg you drive once you have landed and picked somewhere to stay.
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