Gander International Airport (YQX) → Marble Mountain Base Lodge
Gander Airport (YQX) to Marble Mountain
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 350.5 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
- Roads
- 1
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Faded lines are other drives from Gander International into this area: Corner Brook (360 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. 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
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: The nordic trails east of town
6.7 km of mapped cross-country ski trail in the woods off the Trans-Canada, just east of Grand Falls-Windsor. The club running them is not named on the map; ask locally about grooming and season. The weather strip above says whether there is snow.
Stopping here adds 1.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: The nordic trails east of town ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Loggers' Life Provincial MuseumDetour
A reconstructed 1920s logging camp on the west side of Grand Falls-Windsor, mapped right beside the driven line. Central Newfoundland ran on the woods for a century, and the museum shows that work.
Stopping here adds 4.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Loggers' Life Provincial Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Indian River
A green space mapped essentially on the driven line. OpenStreetMap records it as a nature reserve but not who runs it, and it is not on ParksNL's list. Treat it as a place to pull over, not somewhere with facilities.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Indian River ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Newfoundland Insectarium
An insect museum in Deer Lake. Check its hours before detouring with kids in the car.
Stopping here adds 1.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Newfoundland Insectarium ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Joe Butts Lookout
A mapped viewpoint just off the highway near Deer Lake.
Stopping here adds 1.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joe Butts Lookout ↑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.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Gander International Airport (YQX) to Marble Mountain Base Lodge. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Airport info: Gander International Airport →
350.5 km. From Gander airport to Marble Mountain Base Lodge, on Route 1.
When you get to Marble Mountain Base Lodge
- Where to eat near Marble Mountain Base Lodge → — 4 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Marble Mountain Base Lodge, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:09 am | 4:50 pm |
| February | 7:30 am | 5:40 pm |
| March | 7:36 am | 7:25 pm |
| April | 6:31 am | 8:11 pm |
| May | 5:39 am | 8:55 pm |
| June | 5:16 am | 9:26 pm |
| July | 5:32 am | 9:21 pm |
| August | 6:13 am | 8:38 pm |
| September | 6:56 am | 7:36 pm |
| October | 7:40 am | 6:32 pm |
| November | 7:30 am | 4:42 pm |
| December | 8:08 am | 4:24 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 Marble Mountain Base Lodge: where to eat near Marble Mountain Base Lodge →
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 128.8 km — after Eddies Restaurant, until Big Stop Restaurant.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 25.1 · 600 m off the road
- Irvingrestaurantkm 83.6
- Tim Hortonscafékm 83.6
- Furey's Trailway Take-Outfast foodkm 83.7 · 425 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 96.7 · 488 m off the road
- Greco Pizzafast foodkm 96.8 · 383 m off the road
- Taiwanrestaurantkm 96.8 · 1240 m off the road
- Juniper Kitchen and Bistrorestaurantkm 96.8 · 1259 m off the road
- Sarah's Dinerrestaurantkm 96.9 · 1171 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 97.4 · 967 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 97.5 · 379 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 97.6 · 409 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 97.6 · 519 m off the road
- Wing'n Itrestaurantkm 97.6 · 1245 m off the road
- War Wick'srestaurantkm 97.6 · 1338 m off the road
- Tai Sun Restaurantrestaurantkm 97.6 · 403 m off the road
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairrestaurantkm 97.6 · 422 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 97.7 · 721 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 97.7 · 266 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 97.8 · 846 m off the road
- Badger Diner & Motelrestaurantkm 126.5
- Red Hawk Dinerrestaurantkm 126.7
- Eddies Restaurantrestaurantkm 177.5
- Big Stop Restaurantrestaurantkm 306.3
- Tim Hortonfast foodkm 306.3 · 222 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 306.8 · 192 m off the road
- Wingn' itrestaurantkm 307.3
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 307.9 · 235 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 308 · 225 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 308 · 178 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 308.1 · 177 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 308.2
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 308.3
- Peter's Pizzafast foodkm 308.3
- Langerspubkm 308.3 · 550 m off the road
- Oasis Grill Houserestaurantkm 329.8 · 244 m off the road
- Cafe 59restaurantkm 329.8 · 863 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-10-18. How we measure · Add a missing place
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Short drives from Marble Mountain Base Lodge
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeOr any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Marble Mountain Base Lodge.
- Gorge Viewpointstop9.9 km
A mapped viewpoint on the way through the Humber country.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Corner Brooktown10 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Captain James Cook Memorialstop12 km
The mapped historic monument and lookout above the city, with the Captain James Cook Lookout Path threading the headland around it.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Pepsi Centrestop13 km
The west coast's big indoor ice.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cardio Climbtrail · 7.6 km walk · moderate13 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Blow Me Down Cross Country Ski Parkstop17 km
The west coast's cross-country answer to Marble Mountain's downhill, just south of the city: 37 km of mapped ski trails, 27 of them named, from Jack Rabbit to Heart Break Ridge, plus a biathlon range and a Main Lodge (measured from the map 2026-09-04).
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Barachois Pond Provincial Parkstop73 km
The ParksNL camping park on this road: the province's 2026 camping list carries it, open May 15 to September 14 that year, dates subject to the weather.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Stuckless Pond Trailtrail · 9.5 km lollipop · moderate87 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, Bishop’s Falls km 86, South Brook km 178, Deer Lake km 307
- Longest stretch without one
- 129 km
- South Brook → Deer Lake, of 350 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Marble Mountain Base Lodge
- 9.2 km
- by road, at Corner Brook
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Gander (km 3) and Deer Lake (km 303). 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: 78% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 22%
- 68.1 km of 350.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 78%
- 244.4 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 2026-10-19. 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 says the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is 350.5 km, much of it unlit two-lane highway; plan the drive for daylight where you can.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Conditions at one end of the island say little about the other. Check before you set off.
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 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.
Questions
How far is Marble Mountain Base Lodge from Gander airport?＋
350.5 km from the terminal to Marble Mountain Base Lodge.
What route do I take?＋
Route 1. Your maps app has the turns.
Do I need a car?＋
Plan on one. Buses between these towns are few, and the drive is the way most people make it.
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