St. John's International Airport (YYT) → Lewisporte
St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Lewisporte
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 394.7 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Faded lines are other drives from St. John's International into this area: Comfort Cove-Newstead (422 km), Botwood (424 km), Leading Tickles (480 km), Gander (337 km), Twillingate (447 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Joey's Lookout
A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada, about three-quarters of the way along and 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.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Silent Witnesses MemorialDetour
A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, near the far end of this drive, 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.
Directions →Show on map: Silent Witnesses Memorial ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: North Atlantic Aviation Museum
An aviation museum in Gander, late in this drive. Gander exists because of transatlantic flight, and this is where that story is kept. The town's own airport is right here, and the rest of the drive from it is about 60 km. Check current hours with the museum.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: North Atlantic Aviation Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Notre Dame Provincial ParkDetour
A ParksNL operating park close enough to Lewisporte to be a stop at the end rather than a break in the middle. ParksNL publishes its season.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Notre Dame Provincial 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 40 →Whole road: 6 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 5.7 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 28% 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 340 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 44 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 88% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 341 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 24 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 17, 2026, St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Lewisporte, checked 2026-09-17, re-. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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394.7 km. St. John’s airport to Lewisporte: Route 40 out of the city, the Trans-Canada past Clarenville, through Terra Nova and Gander, then north on Routes 340 and 341 to the water.
Know this first. The same town is 63 km from the Gander terminal, and this drive passes through Gander about four-fifths of the way along. It suits a trip that starts on the Avalon and works west afterward.
When you get to Lewisporte
- Staying in Lewisporte? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Lewisporte → — 11 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Mike Austin Arena → — the venue here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at Lewisporte, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:59 am | 4:38 pm |
| February | 7:20 am | 5:28 pm |
| March | 7:25 am | 7:14 pm |
| April | 6:19 am | 8:01 pm |
| May | 5:27 am | 8:45 pm |
| June | 5:03 am | 9:16 pm |
| July | 5:20 am | 9:11 pm |
| August | 6:01 am | 8:28 pm |
| September | 6:45 am | 7:25 pm |
| October | 7:29 am | 6:21 pm |
| November | 7:20 am | 4:29 pm |
| December | 7:58 am | 4:12 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.
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 Lewisporte
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- Woolfrey's Pond Lookoutstop2.5 km
The town's pondside park at the edge of Lewisporte, with a lookout and boardwalk loops above the water.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Bishop’s Falls Heritage Centrestop51 km
A small heritage centre in Bishop's Falls, just off the Trans-Canada.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze A provincial interpretation centre on the site of a Beothuk winter settlement, on a turn off Route 340.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Peter's River Hiking Trailtrail · 5 km walk · easy57 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Botwoodtown60 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - The nordic trails east of townstop61 km
6.7 km of mapped cross-country ski trail in the woods off the Trans-Canada, just east of Grand Falls-Windsor.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze A short way off the Trans-Canada in Grand Falls-Windsor.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Corduroy Brook Nature Reservestop65 km
A network of walking trails and boardwalks along Corduroy Brook, mapped inside Grand Falls-Windsor itself.
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More, up to 78 km (6)
- Summerford Lookoutstop65 km
A marked viewpoint on New World Island, on the road.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Grand Falls-Windsortown66 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Loggers' Life Provincial Museumstop68 km
A reconstructed 1920s logging camp on the edge of Grand Falls-Windsor, mapped right beside the driven line.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Dildo Run Provincial Parkstop69 km
A ParksNL provincial park on the causeway stretch through Dildo Run.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Farewell ferry terminaltown74 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Bridgeportstop78 km
West off Route 340 onto Route 345, out along the shore.
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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
- Paradise km 16, St. John’s km 17, Goobies km 162, Port Blandford km 221, Glowertown km 268, Gander km 334, Lewisporte km 391
- Longest stretch without one
- 145 km
- St. John’s → Goobies, of 394 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Lewisporte
- at Lewisporte
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): St. John’s (km 17) and Whitbourne (km 89) and Clarenville (km 188) and Gander (km 334). 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: 72% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 28%
- 95.5 km of 394.7 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 72%
- 250.9 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 from a local Geofabrik extract (Overpass unreachable), checked 2026-09-21. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
Provincial parksSeasonal — typically late spring into the fall
Notre Dame is an operating provincial park with dates that move year to year; ParksNL publishes them park by park.
gov.nl.ca →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 395 km of mostly unlit two-lane highway, so an afternoon landing can finish in the dark in any season.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Most of this is the Trans-Canada, paved and well travelled. But it crosses 395 km of open country with real winter weather, and conditions at one end say little about the other. Check before leaving the airport.
511nl.ca →
Onward from Lewisporte
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
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 St. John's, with numbers →Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who St. John's International Airport Authority lists at the terminal.
Rideshare: it depends who you ask.
The Airport Authority's own ground-transportation pages name City Wide Taxi as “the exclusive provider of ground transportation services for the public” and do not mention rideshare anywhere. Uber publishes pickup instructions for YYT, and the Airport's own account welcomed Uber in 2024. Both are true. The Authority's pages govern the kerb, so check them on the day.
Taxi
City Wide Taxi, which the Airport Authority names as the exclusive provider for the public. Cabs queue outside the Arrivals area and a dispatcher is there to help. The Authority publishes preset fares to named hotels and a meter-plus-surcharge rate everywhere else.
Public transit
Metrobus route 14 runs between the airport and the St. John's metro region, including Memorial University. There are two stops at the airport: one near the arrivals area, and one on World Parkway by the Holiday Inn Express. The Authority says Metrobus has committed to a wheelchair-accessible service on this route and can take large, non-folding mobility aids. Schedule and fares are Metrobus's.
Source: St. John's International Airport Authority,2026-09-15. Check there for fares and times.
The drive back
Lewisporte back to St. John's measures 396 km — 1.6 km longer than the drive out.
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 St. John's International Airport →
Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions
How far is Lewisporte from St. John's Airport?＋
About 395 km. Route 40 takes you out of St. John's to the Trans-Canada Highway (Route 1), which carries most of the drive, and Routes 340 and 341 bring you the last of the way into Lewisporte.
Should I fly into St. John's, Gander or Deer Lake for Lewisporte?＋
Gander, by far. Lewisporte is 63 km from the Gander terminal, against 395 km from St. John's and 276 km from Deer Lake. Fly into St. John's for Lewisporte only if you are starting on the Avalon Peninsula anyway and working your way west.
Is the drive from St. John's to Lewisporte a hard one?＋
Not difficult, but long. It is paved the whole way and mostly Trans-Canada. The length is the problem, and finishing in the dark: see the moose note above.
Is there anywhere worth stopping on the way?＋
Four places, and three of them come in the last stretch near Gander: Joey's Lookout on the Trans-Canada, the Silent Witnesses Memorial outside Gander, the North Atlantic Aviation Museum in the town itself, and Notre Dame Provincial Park near the end.
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