Gander International Airport (YQX) → Salmonier Nature Park
Gander Airport (YQX) to Salmonier Nature Park
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 291.5 km
- Drive time
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Faded lines are other drives from Gander International into this area: Clarke's Beach (280 km), Brigus (280 km), Witless Bay (316 km), Ferryland (357 km), Harbour Grace (298 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Silent Witnesses MemorialDetour
A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, unveiled in 1990 for the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of 12 December 1985. An American soldier stands atop a rock holding the hands of a civilian boy and girl, each child carrying an olive branch for the Screaming Eagles' peacekeeping mission in the Sinai; they were going home for Christmas. The trio look toward Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where a similar statue looks back.
Stopping here adds 2.4 km to the drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Square Pond
A pond-side stop beside the Trans-Canada. OpenStreetMap still uses its old provincial-park name; the province no longer lists it. A place to stretch your legs.
Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Joey's Lookout
A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada east of Gander, effectively on the road. OpenStreetMap records only the name and that it is a viewpoint. It is easy to miss at highway speed.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Sandy PondDetour
One of the park's officially designated observing sites under its Dark-Sky Preserve status: the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada designated Terra Nova on 26 February 2018, and Parks Canada's own night-sky page calls Sandy Pond the darkest skies in the park. RASC notes the designated sites have paved parking with a walk to the observing spot. The pond also has a beach and a trail for daytime. After dark, the drive back to the highway is moose country.
Stopping here adds 4.8 km to the drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Father Duffy's Well
A roadside spring right on the route, named for Father James Duffy, appointed first parish priest of St. Mary's in 1834, who spent the years after walking back and forth to the courthouse in St. John's over a dispute with the local merchant's agent. The legend, as Product of Newfoundland tells it, is that on one of those walks he tapped a rock with a branch and water rose from dry ground. It has run ever since. The Knights of Columbus made it a roadside grotto in the 1930s.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Salmonier Nature Park
Run by the province's wildlife division on the Salmonier Line. By its own account it opened in 1978 as an environmental education centre and grew into a tourist destination. The animals live in large natural enclosures along a boardwalk trail, among them the Newfoundland marten, for which staff built a captive-breeding enclosure while it was designated endangered. The province coordinates its wildlife rehabilitation from here, and most of the animals arrived injured and unreleasable.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Salmonier Nature 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 330 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 42 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 70% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 90 →Whole road: 4 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 34 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 55% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Gander International Airport (YQX) to Salmonier Nature Park. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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291.5 km. From Gander airport to Salmonier Nature Park, on Routes 330, 1 and 90.
When you get to Salmonier Nature Park
- Where to eat near Salmonier Nature Park → — 1 place the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Salmonier Nature Park, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:45 am | 4:38 pm |
| February | 7:09 am | 5:25 pm |
| March | 7:17 am | 7:07 pm |
| April | 6:15 am | 7:50 pm |
| May | 5:27 am | 8:31 pm |
| June | 5:05 am | 9:00 pm |
| July | 5:21 am | 8:56 pm |
| August | 5:59 am | 8:16 pm |
| September | 6:39 am | 7:16 pm |
| October | 7:20 am | 6:16 pm |
| November | 7:07 am | 4:29 pm |
| December | 7:43 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
28 near the start: where to eat in Gander →
28 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 47.3 km — after Meghan's Restaurant, until A&W.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Copper Kettle Restaurantrestaurantkm 31.9
- Family Pizzarestaurantkm 38.7 · 1870 m off the road
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 68.3
- Happy Adventure Cafecafékm 76.4 · 1229 m off the road
- Snack shack.fast foodkm 115 · 624 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 144.1 · 1142 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 144.2 · 585 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 144.2 · 585 m off the road
- Rod's Restaurantrestaurantkm 144.3 · 508 m off the road
- Don Cherry's Sports Bar & Grillrestaurantkm 144.3 · 200 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 144.5 · 773 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 144.5 · 488 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 144.5 · 488 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 144.6 · 593 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 144.6 · 539 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 144.6 · 676 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 146.1 · 1264 m off the road
- Brownings Pubpubkm 146.2 · 1212 m off the road
- Flannigans Pubpubkm 146.2 · 1229 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 147.9
- Tim Hortonscafékm 147.9
- Breen'srestaurantkm 174.4
- Robin's Donutscafékm 174.7
- Meghan's Restaurantrestaurantkm 198.9
- A&Wfast foodkm 246.2
- Tim Hortonscafékm 246.3
- Subwayfast foodkm 246.3
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 246.9
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
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 Salmonier Nature Park
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- Manuels River Interpretation Centrestop42 km
A fossil bed and walking trail on Manuels River, with guided walks back to when trilobites ruled the seas.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Topsail Beachstop46 km
A beach on Route 60 where people picnic, gather round beach fires and watch boats sail to and from the Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Bay Bulls harbourstop47 km
On screen: where Wade and Jerry head out at night from the marine base to harvest an iceberg.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mickeleens Pathtrail · 7.2 km point to point, one way · moderate47 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Witless Baytown47 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Spout Pathtrail · 16.2 km point to point, one way · strenuous49 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Beaches Pathtrail · 7.1 km point to point, one way · easy49 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze OpenStreetMap records a viewpoint here, unnamed, just off the Southern Shore Highway south of Witless Bay.
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More, up to 68 km (10)
- Tinkers Point Pathtrail · 5 km point to point, one way · easy55 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Railway Coastal Museumstop65 km
The drive passes it at 495 Water Street: St. John's old railway station, now the Railway Coastal Museum, about the Newfoundland Railway and the coastal boats.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Trans-Canada Highway Zero Kmstop66 km
OpenStreetMap records a highway milestone here reading distance zero, named for the Trans-Canada Highway.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - St. John'stown66 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze A few hundred metres along Military Road: Parks Canada's register describes a massive stone cathedral built in the mid 19th century in the Lombard Romanesque Revival style, a national historic site since 1983.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Colonial Buildingstop67 km
On Military Road as the drive comes down into town.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - The Batterystop67 km
On the harbour side of Signal Hill Road.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Signal Hill Visitor Centrestop68 km
Halfway up Signal Hill Road.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Quidi Vidistop68 km
A small village on its own harbour, north of Signal Hill.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - North Head Trailtrail · 1.6 km point to point, one way · easy68 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, Glowertown km 68, Port Blandford km 116, Goobies km 175
- Longest stretch without one
- 116 km
- Goobies → Salmonier Nature Park, of 291 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Salmonier Nature Park
- 19.7 km
- by road, at Holyrood
No fast charger at Salmonier Nature Park. From Goobies it is 116 km there and the same back: plan on about 232 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Holyrood, 19.7 km from Salmonier Nature Park by road, off this drive's own road.
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Gander (km 2) and Clarenville (km 148) and Whitbourne (km 247). 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: 67% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 33%
- 87.8 km of 291.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 67%
- 174.9 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 2026-10-19. 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 291.5 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 change fast on this coast. 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 Salmonier Nature Park from Gander airport?＋
291.5 km from the terminal to Salmonier Nature Park.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 330, 1 and 90. 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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