Goose Bay Airport (YYR) → Red Bay
Goose Bay Airport (YYR) to Red Bay
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 542.4 km
- Drive time
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Faded lines are other drives from Goose Bay into this area: Pinware (572 km), Point Amour Lighthouse (600 km), Forteau (605 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
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 →Show on map: Mary's Harbour ↑Other map apps
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Drive measured Oct 24, 2026, Goose Bay Airport (YYR) to Red Bay. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
542 km. Goose Bay airport to Red Bay on Routes 500 and 510.
The mid-16th-century Basque whaling port on the Strait of Belle Isle, a Parks Canada national historic site and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Parks Canada’s page →
Sunrise and sunset at Red Bay, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:15 am | 4:33 pm |
| February | 7:31 am | 5:28 pm |
| March | 7:31 am | 7:19 pm |
| April | 6:20 am | 8:11 pm |
| May | 5:23 am | 9:00 pm |
| June | 4:56 am | 9:35 pm |
| July | 5:14 am | 9:28 pm |
| August | 6:00 am | 8:40 pm |
| September | 6:49 am | 7:32 pm |
| October | 7:38 am | 6:23 pm |
| November | 7:34 am | 4:26 pm |
| December | 8:16 am | 4:05 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
- 1.4 km
- Southern Labrador Highway (0.06 km, 68.1 km from Red Bay); a service road (0.73 km, 319.1 km from Red Bay); Summerside Road (0.13 km, 319.3 km from Red Bay)
- Mapped as paved
- 79%
- 379.1 km of 542.4 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 21%
- 101.9 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 2026-10-24. 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 Red Bay from Goose Bay airport?＋
542 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), number 1 on the map.
What is at Red Bay?＋
The mid-16th-century Basque whaling port on the Strait of Belle Isle, a Parks Canada national historic site and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Parks Canada's page has the details.
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