Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Roddickton
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Roddickton
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- ⛽ Route 432 has 110 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Distance
- 351.5 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Stop 1: Gros Morne Visitor Information Centre
The park's main entrance, early in the drive. The drive's first stretch is inside Gros Morne, and this is where the park explains itself.
Stopping here adds 0.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Gros Morne Visitor Information Centre ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: The Arches Provincial Park
Sea-carved limestone arches in the surf right beside Route 430. A ten-minute leg-stretch with a lot to photograph. ParksNL lists it as day use, and the sea decides how close you can stand.
Directions →Show on map: The Arches Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
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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 430 →Whole road: 17 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 97 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 44% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 432 →Whole road: 0 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 110 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 433 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 19 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 7, 2026, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Roddickton. 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 →
351.5 km. Deer Lake airport to Roddickton: Route 430 up the Northern Peninsula past Gros Morne and the Arches, then Routes 432 and 433 inland and east into Canada Bay.
The last ninety kilometres decide the day. Traffic and shoulders thin out together. Check the road, weather and moose links on this page before you go.
When you get to Roddickton
- Where to eat near Roddickton → — 1 place the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Roddickton, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:10 am | 4:35 pm |
| February | 7:27 am | 5:29 pm |
| March | 7:29 am | 7:18 pm |
| April | 6:20 am | 8:08 pm |
| May | 5:25 am | 8:55 pm |
| June | 4:59 am | 9:29 pm |
| July | 5:17 am | 9:23 pm |
| August | 6:01 am | 8:37 pm |
| September | 6:48 am | 7:30 pm |
| October | 7:36 am | 6:23 pm |
| November | 7:30 am | 4:28 pm |
| December | 8:10 am | 4:08 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
8 near the start: where to eat in Deer Lake →
1 near Roddickton: where to eat near Roddickton →
12 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 137 km — after Pizza Delight, until Lumberjacks.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Funland Resortrestaurantkm 11.1 · 948 m off the road
- Fisherman's Landingrestaurantkm 70.7 · 577 m off the road
- Earle‘srestaurantkm 70.7 · 1940 m off the road
- SunSet Cafécafékm 70.7 · 635 m off the road
- Jackie‘sfast foodkm 70.7 · 1648 m off the road
- Anchor Pubpubkm 70.7 · 566 m off the road
- Oceansrestaurantkm 70.7 · 554 m off the road
- Buoy & Arrowrestaurantkm 70.7 · 348 m off the road
- Treasure Box Crafts & Cafecafékm 70.7 · 713 m off the road
- Whale‘s Back Grub Hubrestaurantkm 89.9
- C&P Take-Outfast foodkm 212
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 212.2
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
- Deer Lake km 4, Rocky Harbour km 71, Cow Head km 116, Roddickton km 350
- Longest stretch without one
- 234 km
- Cow Head → Roddickton, of 351 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Roddickton
- at Roddickton
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: 49% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 51%
- 176 km of 351.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 49%
- 168.3 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.
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. The drive ends on two quiet, unlit routes with few places to pull over. Leave Deer Lake in the afternoon and you drive the worst of it in the dark. Start early or break it.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 430 runs the length of the Northern Peninsula before Routes 432 and 433 turn inland to Canada Bay, and there is no way around a closure on the last 90 km. Check the far end of the drive before you commit, not just the weather in Deer Lake.
511nl.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
Measured the other way, Roddickton back to Deer Lake is the same distance: 352 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
How far is the drive from Deer Lake?＋
351.5 km, terminal to town centre on the OSRM driving profile. Both stops on this page are on the line, adding under a kilometre between them.
Can it be done as a day trip from Deer Lake?＋
Only a long one. Out and back is 703 km of driving before any stops, which means finishing in the dark: see the moose warning above. Most people stay somewhere on the Northern Peninsula instead.
Is there anywhere to charge an electric car?＋
Roddickton has one of NL Hydro's fast-charging sites, listed at M&B Diner on Major Street. That is why this drive was measured: the town was one of only two on the island west of Clarenville with a fast charger and no measured drive reaching it. The electric page compares every site and the routes that pass them.
Which airport should I fly into?＋
Deer Lake, by a wide margin. Gander is roughly twice as far by road, and no drive from there is measured.
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