Gander International Airport (YQX) → Hermitage-Sandyville
Gander Airport (YQX) to Hermitage and the Gaultois ferry
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- ⛽ Route 360 has 129 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Electric: plan 546 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 276.1 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Then a ferry to Gaultois
The Hermitage–Gaultois crossing is mapped in OpenStreetMap in both directions (relations 13094369/13094370), and Gaultois has no road at all: the boat is the town's street. Sailings, fares and the McCallum connection change with season and vessel; check the provincial schedule pages.
Operated by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Current schedule →Faded lines are other drives from Gander International into this area: Harbour Breton (280 km), St. Alban's (235 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Upper Falls Lookout
One of three viewpoints mapped together beside the Trans-Canada at the Norris Arm junction. The Bay d'Espoir Highway turn at Bishop's Falls is 21.9 km further along. It is the upper waterfall lookout on the Eel Brook Trail, a short walk past Eel Brook's falls. AllTrails lists it at about 1.3 miles out and back, with Lower Falls Lookout as the other viewpoint.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Upper Falls Lookout ↑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 360 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 129 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 364 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 21 km. Unpaved mapped: 1.5 km; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 3, 2026, terminal to town. Your maps app gives the time on the day. The ferry after it is not included. How we measure
Then the ferry to Gaultois — sailings & schedule →
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Download GPX (offline, Garmin)Airport info: Gander International Airport →
276 km, then a ferry. Gander airport to Hermitage: the Trans-Canada, Route 360 south, then Route 364 to the wharf. Boat first, drive second. Check the Gaultois ferry schedule. Route 360 is a long, unlit interior road, so fuel up at the turn. Why people come. Gaultois has never had a road. The south coast once ran entirely on boats, and this is one of the last places you can still watch that system work.
When you get to Hermitage-Sandyville
- Where to eat near Hermitage-Sandyville → — 1 place the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Hermitage-Sandyville, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:56 am | 4:48 pm |
| February | 7:20 am | 5:35 pm |
| March | 7:28 am | 7:18 pm |
| April | 6:25 am | 8:01 pm |
| May | 5:36 am | 8:42 pm |
| June | 5:15 am | 9:12 pm |
| July | 5:31 am | 9:07 pm |
| August | 6:09 am | 8:27 pm |
| September | 6:50 am | 7:27 pm |
| October | 7:31 am | 6:27 pm |
| November | 7:18 am | 4:38 pm |
| December | 7:54 am | 4:23 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
28 near the start: where to eat in Gander →
1 near Hermitage-Sandyville: where to eat near Hermitage-Sandyville →
2 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 179.4 km — after Riverside Diner, until Dashwoods Diner.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 25.1 · 598 m off the road
- Dashwoods Dinerrestaurantkm 204.5
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 Hermitage-Sandyville
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- Traditional Trail to Piccairetrail · 4.4 km out and back · easy8.7 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Harbour Bretontown48 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Dead Man's Cove Trailtrail · 6.2 km out and back · moderate50 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - St. Jacques Island Lighthouselighthouse67 kmDirections →
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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
- Gander km 3
- Longest stretch without one
- 273 km
- Gander → Hermitage-Sandyville, of 276 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Hermitage-Sandyville
- 209.1 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
No fast charger at Hermitage-Sandyville. From Gander it is 273 km there and the same back: plan on about 546 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Bishop’s Falls, 209.1 km from Hermitage-Sandyville by road, off this drive's own road.
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Gander (km 3). 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: 18% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 82%
- 209.9 km of 276.1 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 18%
- 46.9 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.
Fuel and servicesYear round — plan at the turn
As on every 360 drive, over a hundred kilometres of empty interior lie before the Bay d'Espoir communities. Fill up before the turn.
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. Better to miss an evening boat than to hurry.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Routes 360 and 364 are the only way in. Check both directions, and check again before the drive back to a flight.
511nl.ca →
The trails
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 Gander, with numbers →Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who Gander International Airport Authority lists at the terminal.
No rideshare here.
The Airport Authority's transport page lists no rideshare service (checked 2026-09-15).
Taxi
Busy Bee Cabs, which the Airport Authority says runs a 24-hour service available curbside in the Domestic Arrivals area.
Coach
DRL Coachlines runs the island's one scheduled coach, once a day each way, between St. John's and the Marine Atlantic terminal at Port aux Basques. It stops at Gander Airport itself (the restaurant), and at Lewisporte, Grand Falls-Windsor, Deer Lake and Corner Brook among others. It reaches no island and no national park. Tickets are bought on the bus, cash only. The Airport Authority says a wheelchair-accessible bus needs 48 hours' notice. Times and fares are DRL's: drl-lr.com.
Limousine
Nobel Limousines, listed by the Airport Authority.
Avis, Budget, National and Enterprise are listed at the airport. The Authority says accessible vehicles with wheelchair accommodation or hand controls are limited and need 48 hours' notice.
Source: Gander International Airport Authority,2026-09-15. Check there for fares and times.
The drive back
Measured the other way, Hermitage-Sandyville back to Gander is the same distance: 276 km.
Plan back from your check-in time. Going home, the ferry comes first: confirm the sailing, then count back. 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 Gander International Airport →
Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions
Should I fly into Gander or Deer Lake for Hermitage?＋
Gander: 276 km, against 409 km from Deer Lake. If you are going for the ferry, plan the boat first and the drive second.
What is Gaultois?＋
An outport across the tickle with no road to anywhere, one of the last of its kind. You reach it by this crossing or by boat from McCallum further along. The ferry note above has the schedule link.
Can I take a car across?＋
Gaultois has no roads, which answers most of it. The operator sets the vessel's rules; check the provincial schedule page before assuming anything.
What is the drive actually like?＋
Route 360 runs south past falls and across the interior, then Route 364 turns off through the Hermitage Peninsula's hills to the coast. The road ends at salt water, at a working wharf and a boat that is somebody's only way home.
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