Gander International Airport (YQX) → Trinity
Gander Airport (YQX) to Trinity
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 200.3 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Faded lines are other drives from Gander International into this area: Port Rexton (199 km), Salvage (97 km), Cape Bonavista Lighthouse (248 km), Terra Nova National Park Visitor Centre (78 km), Burnside ferry terminal (94 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Trinity Museum
The town's own museum, steps from everything. In a town where every second building is heritage, this is where the story is told. Check hours with the museum.
Directions →Show on map: Trinity Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Green Family Forge
A working blacksmith museum in the forge the Green family ran for generations. A short walk, and the rare heritage stop that smells like its subject.
Directions →Show on map: Green Family Forge ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Fort Point viewpointDetour
The mapped bench at Fort Point, across the harbour mouth, on the old gun battery's ground. It looks back at Trinity's whole waterfront at once.
Stopping here adds 3.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Fort Point viewpoint ↑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 230 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 45 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 4% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 239 →Whole road: 0 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 17 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 4, 2026, terminal to town. 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: Gander International Airport →
200.3 km. Gander airport to Trinity. The last road, Route 239, comes off the ridge and the whole town is suddenly below you. Slow down for that.
Pair it with Cape Bonavista. Trinity’s turnoff comes first, the lighthouse further on: one full day, one peninsula.
Why people come. The whole town is the exhibit: the museum, the Green Family Forge on working days, Fort Point’s view of the waterfront, and the Rising Tide’s summer stage.
When you get to Trinity
- Staying in Trinity? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Trinity → — 11 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Rising Tide Theatre → — the venue here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at Trinity, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:49 am | 4:34 pm |
| February | 7:11 am | 5:23 pm |
| March | 7:17 am | 7:07 pm |
| April | 6:14 am | 7:52 pm |
| May | 5:23 am | 8:35 pm |
| June | 5:01 am | 9:05 pm |
| July | 5:17 am | 9:01 pm |
| August | 5:56 am | 8:19 pm |
| September | 6:39 am | 7:17 pm |
| October | 7:22 am | 6:15 pm |
| November | 7:10 am | 4:25 pm |
| December | 7:48 am | 4:09 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 →
4 near Trinity: where to eat near Trinity →
7 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 39.4 km — after Dunrovin, until The Galley.
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 153.7 · 152 m off the road
- Dunrovinrestaurantkm 155 · 173 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.
What has been recorded near here
Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Trinity, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in August, July, June302 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June279 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, August, June234 reports on record
Reports, not counts: busy harbours report more. No sighting is promised, and the list covers only the species we look up. Source: GBIF, the international record of wildlife sightings, checked 2026-10-07.
Short drives from Trinity
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeOr any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Trinity.
- Lockston Path Provincial Parkstop13 km
The peninsula's ParksNL campground, just off Route 236 near Port Rexton, and the campground on this route.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Green Island (Catalina) Lighthouselighthouse38 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze Opened at Elliston in June 2014, a hundred years after the disaster it exists for.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Ryan Premises National Historic Sitestop52 km
The Parks Canada site on Bonavista's waterfront tells five centuries of the salt-fish trade in the merchant premises where it ran.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mathew (ship) Replicamuseum53 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Elliston Puffin Viewing Pointstop53 km
The viewpoint facing the Elliston puffin colony, close enough to watch from land in season.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Dungeon Provincial Parkstop54 km
A ParksNL day-use park around a collapsed sea cave, with two ocean windows in a sheep pasture, just before the cape.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Bonavista Lighthousestop58 km
The top of the circle: the road up the peninsula ends at a lighthouse on the cape.
Directions →Other map apps
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More, up to 70 km (1)
- Clarenvilletown70 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, Port Rexton km 196
- Longest stretch without one
- 80 km
- Port Blandford → Port Rexton, of 200 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Trinity
- 8.7 km
- by road, at Port Rexton
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Gander (km 2). 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: 51% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 49%
- 86.2 km of 200.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 51%
- 90.6 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.
WhalesMay–September, the province's stated window
Trinity is one of the twelve shore spots the province names for whale watching, and Fort Point's bench is the obvious seat. Whales do not always keep to the window.
newfoundlandlabrador.com →Theatre seasonSummer; check the company's calendar
Trinity is also a stage. The Rising Tide Theatre is mapped a minute's walk from the museum; it announces its own season, pageant and schedule.
risingtidetheatre.com →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 230's long, unlit middle is where it matters.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The peninsula gets weather from two bays. Check before you drive, and again before the drive back.
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, Trinity back to Gander is the same distance: 200 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 Trinity?＋
Gander: 200 km against 503 km from Deer Lake.
Trinity or Bonavista — or both?＋
Both. Trinity's turnoff comes first on Route 230 and the cape is 248 km from Gander against Trinity's 200: a full day. The Bonavista page has the lighthouse leg.
What is Trinity actually like?＋
The best-kept streetscape of saltbox houses, churches and merchant premises on the island. You can walk it in an hour and photograph it for three. Check with each place for what is open that week.
What is the drive actually like?＋
Mostly the same Route 230 as the Bonavista drive. Then the 239 drops off the ridge into Trinity Bight and the town appears below you all at once.
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