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Goose Bay Airport (YYR) → Point Amour Lighthouse

Goose Bay Airport (YYR) to Point Amour Lighthouse

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Distance
600 km
Roads
500510
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Point Amour Lighthouse, a tall white tower with a black band, beside its red-roofed keeper's house above the Strait.
Point Amour Lighthouse, a tall white tower with a black band, beside its red-roofed keeper's house above the Strait.Photo: Acunsolo · source · CC BY-SA 3.0
Driving route from Goose Bay Airport (YYR) to Point Amour Lighthouse: 600 km by road, via Routes 500 · 510.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

Faded lines are other drives from Goose Bay into this area: Forteau (605 km), Pinware (572 km), Red Bay (542 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.

  1. Stop 1: Mary's HarbourDetour

    Battle Harbour, the restored fishing village on Battle Island, gives Mary's Harbour as its address. How to get across is on their page.

    Stopping here adds 5.4 km to the drive.

    Directions →
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    Show on map: Mary's Harbour ↑
  2. Stop 2: Red BayDetour

    The mid-16th-century Basque whaling port on the Strait of Belle Isle, a Parks Canada national historic site and UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    Stopping here adds 3.3 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Red Bay ↑
  3. Stop 3: Pinware

    A hamlet on Route 510 between Point Amour and Red Bay.

    Directions →
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    Show on map: Pinware ↑

Drive measured Oct 24, 2026, Goose Bay Airport (YYR) to Point Amour Lighthouse. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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600 km. Goose Bay airport to Point Amour Lighthouse on Routes 500 and 510.

Completed in 1857 to guide steamships down the Strait of Belle Isle, with 132 steps to the top. A Provincial Historic Site. The provincial historic sites’ page →

Sunrise and sunset at Point Amour Lighthouse, by month
Month (the 15th)SunriseSunset
January8:16 am4:36 pm
February7:32 am5:31 pm
March7:32 am7:21 pm
April6:22 am8:12 pm
May5:26 am9:00 pm
June4:59 am9:35 pm
July5:17 am9:29 pm
August6:02 am8:41 pm
September6:51 am7:33 pm
October7:40 am6:25 pm
November7:35 am4:29 pm
December8:16 am4:09 pm

Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.

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Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
6.2 km
a service road (0.19 km, 0.1 km from Point Amour Lighthouse); a secondary road (1 km, 0.8 km from Point Amour Lighthouse); a secondary road (1.32 km, 1.2 km from Point Amour Lighthouse)
Mapped as paved
78%
423.3 km of 600 km driven
No surface tag on the map
20%
109.8 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 2026-10-24. 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 puts the likelihood of injury in a moose collision at twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daylight.

    gov.nl.ca →
  • Road conditionsYear round, most of all November to April

    Check 511 before you set out on Routes 500 and 510, and again before the drive back.

    511nl.ca →

Questions

How far is Point Amour Lighthouse from Goose Bay airport?+

600 km by road, on Routes 500 and 510. Your maps app gives the time on the day.

What do I pass on the way?+

Mary's Harbour (a 5.4 km detour), Red Bay (a 3.3 km detour), Pinware, numbered on the map in the order you reach them.

What is at Point Amour Lighthouse?+

Completed in 1857 to guide steamships down the Strait of Belle Isle, with 132 steps to the top. A Provincial Historic Site. The provincial historic sites' page has the details.

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Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on October 24, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/431691806 — Terminal. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/448387859 — Point Amour Lighthouse.

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