Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Triton
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Triton and Green Bay's islands
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
Icebergs: book late May and early June →
In season this is Good: Brighton, minutes past Triton, is where CBC covered Green Bay's some-summers ice (source).
- Distance
- 174.7 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Faded lines are other drives from Deer Lake Regional into this area: Pilley's Island ferry terminal (171 km), Leading Tickles (299 km), King's Point (133 km), Botwood (244 km), La Scie (208 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Triton Sperm Whale Pavilion
Triton's museum, built around a sperm whale, and the reason many people drive Route 380.
Directions →Show on map: Triton Sperm Whale Pavilion ↑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 380 →Whole road: 2 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 26 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 5% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 2, 2026, terminal to town centre. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Download GPX (offline, Garmin)Airport info: Deer Lake Regional Airport →
175 km. Deer Lake airport to Triton: the Trans-Canada, then Route 380 from South Brook.
The road crosses the water. Past South Brook, Route 380 hops by causeway from the mainland to Pilley’s Island, then on to Triton, with Green Bay on both sides.
Why people come. Triton’s museum is a pavilion built around a sperm whale. Brighton, just further on, is where in a good summer the ice comes to Green Bay.
When you get to Triton
- Where to eat near Triton → — 6 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Triton, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:03 am | 4:39 pm |
| February | 7:22 am | 5:30 pm |
| March | 7:27 am | 7:16 pm |
| April | 6:21 am | 8:03 pm |
| May | 5:28 am | 8:48 pm |
| June | 5:04 am | 9:20 pm |
| July | 5:21 am | 9:15 pm |
| August | 6:02 am | 8:31 pm |
| September | 6:47 am | 7:27 pm |
| October | 7:32 am | 6:23 pm |
| November | 7:23 am | 4:31 pm |
| December | 8:02 am | 4:13 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 Triton: where to eat near Triton →
1 place to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 126.6 km — after Tim Horton, until Eddies Restaurant.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Eddies Restaurantrestaurantkm 129.1 · 691 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.
Short drives from Triton
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeOr any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Triton.
- Pilley's Island Lookout Trailtrail · 4.6 km out and back · easy10 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Pilley's Island ferry terminaltown19 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Trail to Morry's Covetrail · 3.6 km walk · easy21 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Beaver Pond RV Parkstop25 km
An RV campground by its pond, just past the wharf: the campsite on this route, and proof the crossing carries campers.
Directions →Other map apps
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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
- Deer Lake km 3, South Brook km 129
- Longest stretch without one
- 126 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 173 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Triton
- 45 km
- by road, at South Brook
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: 69% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 31%
- 54.1 km of 173.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 69%
- 118.5 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 2026-09-06. 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 that the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Route 380's causeway country is dark and empty after the junction towns.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Check before you leave the Trans-Canada at South Brook. Route 380 is a dead-end spur into the bay.
511nl.ca →
Onward from Triton
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
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.
Questions
Should I fly into Deer Lake or Gander for Triton?＋
Deer Lake, by 49 km: 175 km against 224 km from Gander. The Route 380 turn is at South Brook, on the western half of the Trans-Canada.
What is the drive actually like?＋
Trans-Canada east to South Brook, then Route 380 north. In the second half the road hops by causeway from the mainland across Pilley's Island to Triton Island, with Green Bay on both sides. It is a dead end.
Is this an iceberg drive?＋
Some summers. CBC covered a berg at Brighton, just past Triton, with humpbacks the same week. It is not one of the province's named viewing spots, so the badge on this page says 'worth going', not 'go'. Check Iceberg Finder for the live picture.
How does this relate to the Long Island ferry?＋
Same road. Route 380 leads to the Pilley's Island wharf for the Long Island crossing. The YDF to Long Island page covers the boat; this one carries on across the causeway.
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title="Driving route: Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Triton"></iframe>?lat=&lon=&label= to the URL to pin your own property on the map.Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on September 30, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/180061286 — passenger terminal. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/1656200258 — Triton place node.