Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Cape St. George
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Cape St. George and the Port au Port Peninsula
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 188.1 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Stop 1: Stephenville
The peninsula's service town, built around a runway. Harmon Air Force Base put an American town here in the 1940s, and the street names still say Texas and Georgia. Last full services before the French Shore's smaller communities.
Stopping here adds 1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Stephenville ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Our Lady of Mercy Heritage Church
One of the largest wooden churches in Newfoundland, raised on Port au Port West's shore in the 1920s and mapped with its museum beside it. The parish and museum set their own hours in season; the building is visible from the road.
Stopping here adds 0.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Our Lady of Mercy Heritage Church ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Boutte du Cap ParkDetour
The park at the end of the road, named in the Shore's French. The cliffs face across the Gulf toward Quebec, and seabirds ride the updrafts.
Stopping here adds 4.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Boutte du Cap Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze
Scan with your phone to open this page there. Then tap Keep for offline before you lose signal.
⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
- Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 460 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 55 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 100% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 30, 2026, terminal to the village. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Keep for offline ↓Download GPX (offline, Garmin)Airport info: Deer Lake Regional Airport →
188.1 km. Deer Lake airport to Cape St. George: the Trans-Canada, then Route 460 through Stephenville and out along the Port au Port Peninsula to the cape.
Make it a loop. Route 463 comes back along the north shore through Lourdes and Black Duck Brook.
Why people come. This is Newfoundland’s French Shore, the island’s only officially bilingual ground, and Route 460 ends where the cliffs drop into the Gulf.
When you get to Cape St. George
- Where to eat near Cape St. George → — 1 place the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Cape St. George, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:13 am | 4:57 pm |
| February | 7:35 am | 5:47 pm |
| March | 7:41 am | 7:31 pm |
| April | 6:37 am | 8:16 pm |
| May | 5:46 am | 8:59 pm |
| June | 5:24 am | 9:29 pm |
| July | 5:40 am | 9:24 pm |
| August | 6:20 am | 8:43 pm |
| September | 7:02 am | 7:41 pm |
| October | 7:45 am | 6:39 pm |
| November | 7:34 am | 4:49 pm |
| December | 8:12 am | 4:32 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
3 near the start: where to eat in Deer Lake →
1 near Cape St. George: where to eat near Cape St. George →
29 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 62.6 km — after Pinchgut Restaurant & Convenience, until Little Caesars.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Wingn' itrestaurantkm 5.1
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 5.7 · 235 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 5.8 · 225 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 5.8 · 178 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 5.9 · 178 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 6
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 6.1
- Peter's Pizzafast foodkm 6.1
- Langerspubkm 6.2 · 550 m off the road
- Oasis Grill Houserestaurantkm 27.7 · 245 m off the road
- Cafe 59restaurantkm 27.7 · 863 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 46
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 53.4 · 881 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 53.5 · 923 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 53.5 · 912 m off the road
- Samuel's Sammiches and Sweetsrestaurantkm 53.6 · 1496 m off the road
- King Henry's Pubpubkm 53.8 · 1919 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 53.8 · 1992 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 53.8 · 1849 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 54.4 · 310 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 54.8 · 197 m off the road
- Wendy'sfast foodkm 55
- Pinchgut Restaurant & Conveniencerestaurantkm 72.3
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 134.9 · 1099 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 135.1 · 1112 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 135.1 · 1341 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 135.5 · 915 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 135.5 · 914 m off the road
- NewfieBoy's Burger Busfast foodkm 135.6 · 843 m off the road
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.
What has been recorded near here
Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Cape St. George, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, September, August252 reports on record
Reports, not counts: busy harbours report more. No sighting is promised, and the list covers only the species we look up. Source: GBIF, the international record of wildlife sightings, checked 2026-10-07.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Deer Lake km 4, Corner Brook km 55, Stephenville km 135
- Longest stretch without one
- 80 km
- Corner Brook → Stephenville, of 188 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Cape St. George
- 53.7 km
- by road, at Stephenville
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Deer Lake (km 0). 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
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 90% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 10%
- 15 km of 188.1 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 90%
- 136.2 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, origin to destination, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-09-06. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 460 runs open coast along the peninsula's south side for its last stretch. Check the cameras and plow reports.
511nl.ca →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states that the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Watch the lowland stretch between the Trans-Canada and Stephenville.
gov.nl.ca →
Renting a car? Book the car when you book the flight.
Summer rentals sell out, says NL Tourism, and in June 2026 BNN Bloomberg reported St. John's airport agencies booked for nearly all of summer.
Both checked October 7, 2026.
Rental counters at Deer Lake, with numbers →Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who Deer Lake Regional Airport lists at the terminal.
No rideshare here.
The airport's ground-transportation page lists no rideshare service, only three taxi firms, a shuttle and seven charter operators (checked 2026-09-15).
Taxi
Star Taxi, which the airport calls its primary ground transportation provider, serving the whole region with wheelchair-accessible vans and accommodating service dogs. The airport advises contacting them 24 to 48 hours before you arrive.
Taxi
Deer Lake Taxi, listed as operating around the clock across the province with no pre-booking required.
Shuttle
Star Taxi runs a shuttle between Corner Brook and the airport, serving named hotels, with a private-car option. It must be booked ahead. The airport publishes the fares.
Coach
DRL Coachlines' once-a-day coach each way between St. John's and Port aux Basques stops in Deer Lake town (the Circle K), not at the airport terminal. It reaches no island and no national park. Tickets are bought on the bus, cash only. Times and fares are DRL's: drl-lr.com.
Source: Deer Lake Regional Airport,2026-09-15. Check there for fares and times.
The drive back
Cape St. George back to Deer Lake measures 188 km.
Plan back from your check-in time. Give the planner your flight time and it tells you when to set off.
How early to arrive depends on the carrier and the season: check Deer Lake Regional Airport →
Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions
What is the French Shore?＋
The Port au Port Peninsula is the island's francophone heartland: communities settled by French fishing crews and Acadians, with bilingual road signs and a fiddle tradition of its own. Cape St. George is at the Shore's western end.
Is this the same Stephenville with the big airport?＋
Yes. Harmon Field's Cold War runway still shapes the town plan, and the American street names survive. On this route Stephenville is the gateway to the peninsula.
Cape St. George or Port aux Basques — which west-coast drive?＋
Port aux Basques is the longer run to the island's ferry port. This one is shorter and about culture: the French Shore, the wooden church, and cliffs facing Quebec.
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