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A loop from Gambo

Kittiwake Coast: Road to the Shore

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Distance
307.4 km
Drive time
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Greenspond island town from a lookout, houses and sea.
Greenspond island town from a lookout, houses and sea.Photo: Johnathan Nightingale · source · CC BY-SA 3.0
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A loop from Gambo and back: 307.4 km by road, via Routes 320 · 330 · 332 · 1.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

  1. Stop 1: Dover Fault Interpretation CentreDetour

    The centre for the Dover Fault, which the province's tourism site describes as a major break in the Earth's crust where the North American and European continents collided. The trail beside it climbs to a lookout with interpretation panels.

    Stopping here adds 3.7 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Dover Fault Interpretation Centre ↑

  2. Stop 2: Greenspond Courthouse

    Greenspond's 19th-century courthouse, kept as a heritage site. The province's tourism site calls Greenspond one of the oldest continuously inhabited outports in the province, with a European presence from the 1690s.

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    Show on map: Greenspond Courthouse ↑

  3. Stop 3: NewtownDetour

    The province's tourism site calls Newtown the Venice of Newfoundland, built across small islands, and points to the Barbour House: a Queen Anne-style merchant's mansion from 1904 with its original furnishings, beside the town's heritage village.

    Stopping here adds 4.8 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Newtown ↑

  4. Stop 4: Cape FreelsDetour

    A beach on a coast BirdLife International has designated an Important Bird Area for nesting seabirds, among them common eiders, murres, razorbills and Arctic terns, per the province's tourism site.

    Stopping here adds 9.8 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Cape Freels ↑

  5. Stop 5: Windmill Bight Park Reserve

    Three kilometres from Lumsden off Route 330. It protects a long sand and beachrock bar between the sea and a calm barachois, and habitat for migrating shorebirds. The province classes it as a park reserve, and reserves have no day-use or camping facilities. Many were provincial parks whose campground was leased out. Come for the beach and bring what you need.

    Stopping here adds 1.3 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Windmill Bight Park Reserve ↑

  6. Stop 6: Lumsden Beach

    The beach the province's tourism site calls the most popular on the Kittiwake Coast. The Wonder Shore trail follows the coast from here over dunes and cliffs.

    Stopping here adds 1.5 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Lumsden Beach ↑

  7. Stop 7: Deadman's Bay beach

    A beach of fine beige sand a few minutes from Lumsden, per the province's tourism site.

    Stopping here adds 0.3 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Deadman's Bay beach ↑

  8. Stop 8: Musgrave Harbour

    A beach town with the Fishermen's Museum, in a building Sir William Coaker put up in 1910, as the province's tourism site tells it: artifacts from the fishery inside, a painted mural outside.

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    Show on map: Musgrave Harbour ↑

  9. Stop 9: Carmanville Wetlands Interpretation Centre

    Carmanville's wetlands centre beside Route 330. The province's tourism site gives it four kilometres of walking trails for songbirds and waterfowl.

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    Show on map: Carmanville Wetlands Interpretation Centre ↑

  10. Stop 10: Joey's Lookout

    A lookout over Gambo and the Gambo River, with a giant sculpture of Joey Smallwood's head, per the province's tourism site. Gambo is where he was born.

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    Show on map: Joey's Lookout ↑
⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
  • Route 320 →Whole road: 6 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 39 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 72% has no surface tag, so unknown.
  • Route 330 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 42 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 70% has no surface tag, so unknown.
  • Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Campground 38 km from the end →

Drive measured Oct 10, 2026, Gambo round by Greenspond, New-Wes-Valley, Musgrave Harbour and Carmanville, back by Gander. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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307.4 km, all the way round. The province’s Kittiwake Coast drive along the Atlantic shore is a circle, not a there and back: Route 320 from Gambo out to Greenspond, on its island at the end of a causeway, then Route 330 along the shore past Newtown and Lumsden to Musgrave Harbour, and home west through Carmanville to Gander. Only the spur out to Greenspond is driven twice.

A full day, not an afternoon. The beach at Windmill Bight makes it longer.

When you get to Gambo

Sunrise and sunset at Gambo, by month
Month (the 15th)SunriseSunset
January7:54 am4:36 pm
February7:15 am5:26 pm
March7:21 am7:11 pm
April6:16 am7:56 pm
May5:25 am8:40 pm
June5:02 am9:11 pm
July5:19 am9:06 pm
August5:59 am8:23 pm
September6:42 am7:21 pm
October7:25 am6:18 pm
November7:15 am4:28 pm
December7:53 am4:10 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

1 near Gambo: where to eat near Gambo →

37 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.

The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 98 km — after Rocky Ridge Diner, until Little Caesars.

Every one of them, in the order you pass them
  • Washed Ashorecafékm 35.3
  • Aunt Hannah's Cafe and Gallerycafékm 39.8
  • Sunset Grillrestaurantkm 40
  • Silver Fox Loungecafékm 40.6
  • Ida's placecafékm 73.5 · 335 m off the road
  • Dykes Marinefast foodkm 74.1 · 307 m off the road
  • Amy's Placerestaurantkm 111.1
  • Rocky Ridge Dinerrestaurantkm 159.9
  • Little Caesarsfast foodkm 257.9
  • Wing 'n Itrestaurantkm 258.1 · 312 m off the road
  • Rosie's Restaurant & Bakeryrestaurantkm 258.1 · 779 m off the road
  • The Newfoundland Tea Co. Restaurant & Shoprestaurantkm 258.2 · 627 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 258.3
  • Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 258.4 · 583 m off the road
  • Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 258.4 · 547 m off the road
  • Pizza Housefast foodkm 258.4 · 595 m off the road
  • East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 258.4 · 598 m off the road
  • KFCfast foodkm 258.5 · 204 m off the road
  • Ches's Fish & Chipsrestaurantkm 258.5 · 483 m off the road
  • The Shawarma Stationrestaurantkm 258.5 · 250 m off the road
  • Louis Geesfast foodkm 258.5 · 712 m off the road
  • Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 258.5 · 640 m off the road
  • New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 258.5 · 620 m off the road
  • Grecofast foodkm 258.5 · 632 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 258.5 · 227 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 258.7
  • McDonald'sfast foodkm 258.7
  • A&Wfast foodkm 258.7 · 1553 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 258.8 · 1526 m off the road
  • Mystic Roomrestaurantkm 258.8 · 417 m off the road
  • Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 258.9 · 276 m off the road
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 258.9 · 1377 m off the road
  • Swiss Chaletrestaurantkm 258.9
  • Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 258.9
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 259.1 · 1265 m off the road
  • DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 259.2 · 1054 m off the road
  • Copper Kettle Restaurantrestaurantkm 288.6

Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-10-11. How we measure · Add a missing place

Short drives from Gambo

An easy day out from GamboDover 23 km awayIts own page measures from the Gander airport; from Gambo it is 23 km.Directions from where your phone is now:
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Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Gambo.

More, up to 52 km (10)

Distances by road, measured on OpenStreetMap October 16, 2026, from where this route ends. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

Doing it electric

Fast chargers on this drive
Gander km 260
Longest stretch without one
260 km
the start → Gander, of 307 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Gambo
31.9 km
by road, at Glowertown

Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Gander (km 260). Not counted until it opens.

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

Every route compared →NL Hydro: plan your road trip →

Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
0.8 km
Cemetery Road (0.3 km, 55.6 km from Gambo); Cemetary Road (0.09 km, 55.6 km from Gambo); Burt's Drive (0.42 km, 75.1 km from Gambo)
Mapped as paved
26%
66.4 km of 307.4 km driven
No surface tag on the map
74%
189.6 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 2026-10-10. Today's road conditions: 511.

Before you go

These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.

  • ShorebirdsMigration; the timing moves

    Windmill Bight is protected in part as habitat for migrating shorebirds, which use the barachois behind the bar. This page cannot give a date; ask local birders.

    gov.nl.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. 307 km of driving is a full day, and Routes 320 and 330 have long unlit stretches between communities.

    gov.nl.ca →

  • Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April

    This shore gets the weather off the open Atlantic first. Check before you commit to a 307 km circuit with a causeway on it.

    511nl.ca →

Questions

How far is the Road to the Shore?＋

Measured here as a full circle from Gambo: Route 320 out to Greenspond and New-Wes-Valley, Route 330 along the shore past Newtown and Lumsden to Musgrave Harbour, then west through Carmanville and Gander Bay to Gander, and the Trans-Canada back to Gambo. 307.4 km of driving. Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, which names the drive and gives Gander or Gambo as its start, publishes about 307 km.

How is this different from the Road to the Isles?＋

They are two of the four Kittiwake Coast drives the province names, going opposite ways from the same corner. The Road to the Isles runs north-west on Route 340 to Twillingate and the causeways; this one runs north-east on 320 and 330 along the open Atlantic shore to Musgrave Harbour and Greenspond. Both have pages here, measured the same way.

Where does this connect to the airport routes?＋

The circle runs through Gander itself, so from Gander Airport you can join it there and go either way round. Musgrave Harbour, New-Wes-Valley and Greenspond also have their own measured drives from the terminal, for when you want one place rather than the whole shore.

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