Gander International Airport (YQX) → St. Alban's
Gander Airport (YQX) to St. Alban's and Bay d'Espoir
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- ⛽ Route 360 has 129 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Electric: plan 464 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 234.9 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Faded lines are other drives from Gander International into this area: Hermitage-Sandyville (276 km), Harbour Breton (280 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Upper Falls Lookout
A viewpoint mapped beside the Trans-Canada at the Norris Arm junction, facing north. The Bay d'Espoir Highway turn near Bishop's Falls, where Route 360 leaves the highway and runs south, is 21.9 km ahead. 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: Notre Dame Provincial ParkDetour
A provincial park on the Trans-Canada leg, just off the driven line, and the campground on this route. It is seasonal. ParksNL publishes what operates there and when.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Notre Dame Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Hydro Generation Info.
The mapped interpretation stop for the Bay d'Espoir hydro development, near the head of the bay. The hydro development is the reason a highway runs through this country.
Directions →Show on map: Hydro Generation Info. ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: St. Alban's Heritage Museum
The town's museum, in St. Alban's at the end of the road.
Directions →Show on map: St. Alban's Heritage Museum ↑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.
⛽ 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 361 →Whole road: 4 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 15 km. Unpaved mapped: 0.8 km; 0% 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 →Keep for offline ↓Download GPX (offline, Garmin)Airport info: Gander International Airport →
234.9 km. Gander airport to St. Alban’s: the Trans-Canada west past Glenwood and Bishop’s Falls, then Route 360 south to Bay d’Espoir.
Why people come. St. Alban’s is the largest community on Bay d’Espoir, a long, sheltered arm of the sea; Conne River, home to the Miawpukek First Nation, is on the bay’s eastern side.
When you get to St. Alban's
- Where to eat near St. Alban's → — 2 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at St. Alban's, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:57 am | 4:46 pm |
| February | 7:20 am | 5:34 pm |
| March | 7:27 am | 7:17 pm |
| April | 6:24 am | 8:01 pm |
| May | 5:35 am | 8:43 pm |
| June | 5:13 am | 9:13 pm |
| July | 5:29 am | 9:08 pm |
| August | 6:08 am | 8:28 pm |
| September | 6:49 am | 7:27 pm |
| October | 7:31 am | 6:26 pm |
| November | 7:19 am | 4:37 pm |
| December | 7:55 am | 4:21 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 →
3 near St. Alban's: where to eat near St. Alban's →
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.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 3
- Longest stretch without one
- 232 km
- Gander → St. Alban's, of 235 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to St. Alban's
- 167.9 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
No fast charger at St. Alban's. From Gander it is 232 km there and the same back: plan on about 464 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Bishop’s Falls, 167.9 km from St. Alban's 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: 22% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 78%
- 163.8 km of 234.9 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 22%
- 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, origin to destination, 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 360 is a long, unlit run through moose country.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Check before you leave the Trans-Canada. Once you turn south on Route 360 there is no other road.
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.
The drive back
Measured the other way, St. Alban's back to Gander is the same distance: 235 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 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 Bay d'Espoir?＋
Gander, by a wide margin: 235 km against 368 km from Deer Lake, a difference of 133 km. The Route 360 junction sits on the Trans-Canada well east of centre.
What is actually down there?＋
The Bay d'Espoir communities: St. Alban's the largest of them, Milltown and Head of Bay d'Espoir at the top of the bay, and Conne River, home of the Miawpukek First Nation, on its eastern side. It is one of several places on this site's map where the road reaches the island's south coast.
What should I know about Route 360 itself?＋
It is long and empty. The turn south comes near Bishop's Falls, and from there the highway runs well over a hundred kilometres to the bay. Expect few services once you leave the Trans-Canada, and fuel up before the junction.
Is this a day trip from the airport?＋
Only barely, and only in summer light: 470 km of driving before any stops. It works better as the first leg of a stay on the bay.
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