St. John's International Airport (YYT) → Trepassey
St. John's Airport (YYT) to Trepassey
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 155.9 km
- Drive time
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Faded lines are other drives from St. John's International into this area: Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre (144 km), Ferryland (86 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Viewpoint on Route 10, south of Witless Bay
OpenStreetMap records a viewpoint here, unnamed, just off the Southern Shore Highway south of Witless Bay. Route 10 is what the province calls the Irish Loop Drive, and the communities it strings together are the ones nearest the islands of Witless Bay Ecological Reserve: the province says those islands hold North America's largest Atlantic Puffin colony and, after Baccalieu Island, the world's second-largest Leach's Storm-petrel colony. Landing takes a permit, so people watch the birds from licensed tour boats that leave from these communities.
Directions →Show on map: Viewpoint on Route 10, south of Witless Bay ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Colony of Avalon, Ferryland
A 17th-century archaeological site at Ferryland, a National Historic Site since 1953 as the site of the house of Sir George Calvert, later Lord Baltimore, who founded the plantation here in 1621. Parks Canada's record notes the house later became the seat of Sir David Kirke's government of Newfoundland, and that excavation continues under the Colony of Avalon Foundation. Pool Road, a turn off Route 10.
Directions →Show on map: Colony of Avalon, Ferryland ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre, Portugal Cove South
Where the official guided tours to Mistaken Point depart, beside Route 10 in Portugal Cove South. The not-for-profit Mistaken Point Cape Race Heritage Inc. owns and runs it, and provincial Natural Areas staff work from it too. The reserve protects fossils of the Ediacara biota, in the province's words the oldest large, complex life-forms found anywhere on Earth, from 580 to 541 million years ago. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016. Viewing the fossils is by guided tour or permit only.
Directions →Show on map: Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre, Portugal Cove South ↑Other map apps
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⛽ 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 2 →Whole road: 10 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 28 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 70% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 3 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 9.2 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 1% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 10 →Whole road: 7 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 91 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 77% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 5, 2026, St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Trepassey. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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155.9 km. St. John’s airport across the city, then Route 10, the Southern Shore Highway, the whole way south past Bay Bulls, Witless Bay and Ferryland.
Why people come. Much of it stands beside the road: Witless Bay’s seabird islands, watched from licensed tour boats; the Colony of Avalon at Ferryland; and Mistaken Point’s fossils, by guided tour or permit. Trepassey is the nearest tourism services to Mistaken Point, and Route 10 carries on west around the peninsula.
When you get to Trepassey
- Where to eat near Trepassey → — 1 place the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Trepassey, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:43 am | 4:40 pm |
| February | 7:08 am | 5:27 pm |
| March | 7:17 am | 7:08 pm |
| April | 6:16 am | 7:50 pm |
| May | 5:29 am | 8:29 pm |
| June | 5:08 am | 8:58 pm |
| July | 5:24 am | 8:54 pm |
| August | 6:00 am | 8:15 pm |
| September | 6:40 am | 7:16 pm |
| October | 7:20 am | 6:17 pm |
| November | 7:05 am | 4:30 pm |
| December | 7:41 am | 4:16 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
52 near the start: where to eat in St. John's →
2 near Trepassey: where to eat near Trepassey →
173 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 56.7 km — after Brophy's Convenience Plus (Jerome's), until Trepassey Motel & Restaurant.
All 173, in the order you pass them — open the list
- Piattorestaurantkm 5.1 · 263 m off the road
- Wedgwood Cafe & Cateringrestaurantkm 5.1 · 429 m off the road
- Desi Mealrestaurantkm 5.3 · 399 m off the road
- Pizza Supremerestaurantkm 5.3 · 404 m off the road
- Sequerra's Restaurantrestaurantkm 5.3 · 395 m off the road
- Bitterspubkm 5.4 · 1461 m off the road
- Jumping Beancafékm 5.4 · 336 m off the road
- Big Bite Pitafast foodkm 5.7 · 947 m off the road
- MajesTeacafékm 5.7 · 941 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 5.9 · 1957 m off the road
- Gracie Joe'srestaurantkm 6.3 · 957 m off the road
- Breezewaypubkm 6.5 · 1888 m off the road
- Ziggy Peelgoodfast foodkm 6.5 · 977 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 6.5 · 897 m off the road
- Donati'sfast foodkm 6.5 · 862 m off the road
- Pop's Dinerrestaurantkm 6.5 · 926 m off the road
- NJ's Kitchenrestaurantkm 6.5 · 884 m off the road
- Jumping Beancafékm 6.5 · 1811 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 6.5 · 1967 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 6.5 · 1839 m off the road
- Booster Juicefast foodkm 6.5 · 1834 m off the road
- Manchu Wokfast foodkm 6.5 · 1828 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 6.5 · 1819 m off the road
- Just Friesfast foodkm 6.5 · 1815 m off the road
- Smitty'srestaurantkm 6.5 · 910 m off the road
- Noodle Namirestaurantkm 6.5 · 889 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 6.5 · 1074 m off the road
- Quintana'srestaurantkm 6.5 · 1036 m off the road
- Big Ben's Pubpubkm 6.5 · 1026 m off the road
- The Georgetown Pubpubkm 6.7 · 356 m off the road
- Beavertailsfast foodkm 6.8
- Georgestown Cafe and Bookshelfcafékm 6.8 · 335 m off the road
- The Parlourrestaurantkm 6.9 · 186 m off the road
- Hungry Heartcafékm 7
- Sun Sushi & Bubbled Tearestaurantkm 7.1 · 312 m off the road
- Get Stuffedrestaurantkm 7.1 · 305 m off the road
- Fixed Coffee and Bakingcafékm 7.1 · 339 m off the road
- Smitty'srestaurantkm 7.1 · 445 m off the road
- Portobello's Restaurantrestaurantkm 7.1 · 493 m off the road
- International Flavoursrestaurantkm 7.1 · 864 m off the road
- Classic Cafe Eastcafékm 7.1 · 587 m off the road
- Coffee Matterscafékm 7.1 · 515 m off the road
- J Korean Restaurantrestaurantkm 7.1 · 301 m off the road
- Zachary's Restaurantrestaurantkm 7.1 · 590 m off the road
- Chatters Coffeecafékm 7.1 · 490 m off the road
- Newfoundland Chocolate Cafecafékm 7.1 · 1570 m off the road
- Pirestaurantkm 7.1 · 307 m off the road
- Battery Cafecafékm 7.1 · 840 m off the road
- Bannerman Brewing Co.pubkm 7.1 · 548 m off the road
- Peaceful Loftrestaurantkm 7.2 · 259 m off the road
- Bamboo Gardenrestaurantkm 7.2 · 258 m off the road
- Bagel Caferestaurantkm 7.2 · 260 m off the road
- Fat Nanny'scafékm 7.2 · 283 m off the road
- Shalimarrestaurantkm 7.3 · 223 m off the road
- Oliver'srestaurantkm 7.4 · 261 m off the road
- Water St.Varietycafékm 7.4 · 301 m off the road
- Smoke's Poutinefast foodkm 7.4 · 283 m off the road
- Biancarestaurantkm 7.4 · 274 m off the road
- The Fifth Ticketrestaurantkm 7.4 · 275 m off the road
- Ship Pubpubkm 7.4 · 241 m off the road
- No.4 Restaurant & Barrestaurantkm 7.4 · 170 m off the road
- India Gaterestaurantkm 7.4 · 188 m off the road
- Saltwaterrestaurantkm 7.4 · 191 m off the road
- 3 Sisters Vietnamese Subsfast foodkm 7.5 · 210 m off the road
- Duke of Duckworthpubkm 7.5 · 173 m off the road
- Cojones Tacos & Tequilarestaurantkm 7.5 · 246 m off the road
- Sushi Islandrestaurantkm 7.6 · 202 m off the road
- Jumping Bean Coffeecafékm 7.6 · 191 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 7.6 · 265 m off the road
- The Sprout Restaurantrestaurantkm 7.7
- Ziggy Peelgoods French Friesfast foodkm 7.7 · 180 m off the road
- Chinchedrestaurantkm 7.7
- Yellowbelly Brewerypubkm 7.8
- The Kegrestaurantkm 7.8 · 214 m off the road
- Afghan Restaurantrestaurantkm 7.8
- Piatto Restaurantrestaurantkm 7.8
- The Republicpubkm 7.8
- Jack Astor'srestaurantkm 7.8 · 225 m off the road
- O'Reilly'spubkm 7.8
- Trapper John's Museum & Pubpubkm 7.8
- Rob Roy Pubpubkm 7.8
- Green Sleeves Pub & Restaurantpubkm 7.8
- Formosa Tea Houserestaurantkm 7.8 · 327 m off the road
- Celtic Hearthrestaurantkm 7.8
- Bridie Molloy’spubkm 7.8
- Merchant Tavernrestaurantkm 7.8
- Carribean Cornerrestaurantkm 7.8
- LIVrestaurantkm 7.8
- Frugal Steinsrestaurantkm 7.8
- Saltwaterrestaurantkm 7.8
- Black Cat Pizzeriarestaurantkm 7.8 · 324 m off the road
- Leo's Fish and Chipsfast foodkm 7.8 · 426 m off the road
- Ches' Fish & Chipsfast foodkm 7.8 · 380 m off the road
- Fat Bastard Burritofast foodkm 7.9
- Downtown Pizza fast foodkm 7.9
- Kelly's Pubpubkm 7.9
- Shamrock City Pubpubkm 7.9
- Christian'spubkm 7.9
- Adelaide Oyster Houserestaurantkm 7.9
- Gahan Housepubkm 7.9 · 205 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 7.9
- Chinched Bistrorestaurantkm 8
- Fiddlers Pubpubkm 8
- Fabulous Foodsrestaurantkm 8 · 903 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 8.2 · 1887 m off the road
- The Guv'nor Pubpubkm 8.2 · 1948 m off the road
- Humphreys Restaurant and Pubrestaurantkm 8.3
- Subwayfast foodkm 8.5 · 1492 m off the road
- RJ Pinoy Yumrestaurantkm 8.5 · 1506 m off the road
- No Name Pizzafast foodkm 8.5 · 1485 m off the road
- Ziggy Peelgoodsfast foodkm 8.5 · 1453 m off the road
- Mr. Subfast foodkm 8.5 · 1614 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 8.5 · 1537 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 8.5 · 1562 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 8.5 · 1592 m off the road
- The Station Loungepubkm 8.6
- The Cove Climbing Cafécafékm 9.7 · 842 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 9.7 · 360 m off the road
- The Big R Restaurantrestaurantkm 10.8 · 1181 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 11.2 · 1322 m off the road
- Domino'sfast foodkm 11.3 · 1470 m off the road
- Wendy'sfast foodkm 12.3 · 940 m off the road
- Peter's Pizzarestaurantkm 13.1 · 1175 m off the road
- Red Pepperrestaurantkm 13.1 · 1187 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 13.1 · 1079 m off the road
- Rack and Roll Lounge and Games Roompubkm 13.2 · 1279 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 13.3 · 967 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 13.3 · 958 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 13.3 · 937 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 13.3
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 13.8 · 1379 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 13.8 · 1386 m off the road
- New Moon Restaurantrestaurantkm 14.8 · 1493 m off the road
- Ches's Fish and Chipsfast foodkm 14.8 · 1335 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 14.8 · 1452 m off the road
- Topsail Road Pizzeria and Loungefast foodkm 14.8 · 1460 m off the road
- Big Cheese Pizzafast foodkm 14.8 · 1354 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 14.8 · 1351 m off the road
- Sushi Makirestaurantkm 14.8 · 1351 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 14.8 · 1476 m off the road
- Starbuckscafékm 14.8 · 1463 m off the road
- Redrock Bar & Grillrestaurantkm 14.8 · 1503 m off the road
- Jasmine's Restaurantrestaurantkm 14.9 · 1593 m off the road
- The Sweet Newfie Kitchenfast foodkm 16.1 · 1922 m off the road
- Oscars Eatery & Caférestaurantkm 16.1 · 1833 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 17.4 · 1460 m off the road
- Extreme Pitafast foodkm 17.4 · 1691 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 17.4 · 1506 m off the road
- Smitty'srestaurantkm 17.4 · 1521 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 17.4 · 1895 m off the road
- Harvey'sfast foodkm 17.4 · 1525 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 17.4 · 1479 m off the road
- Asian Caferestaurantkm 17.4 · 1981 m off the road
- Landwash Brewerypubkm 17.4 · 832 m off the road
- Thaï Expressfast foodkm 17.4 · 1532 m off the road
- Johny & Mae'sfast foodkm 17.4 · 827 m off the road
- Booster Juicefast foodkm 17.4 · 1535 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 17.4 · 1485 m off the road
- Harvey'sfast foodkm 17.4 · 1526 m off the road
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 18.9 · 1592 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 18.9 · 1570 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 21.7 · 1882 m off the road
- Jungle Jimsrestaurantkm 21.8 · 1802 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 21.8 · 1825 m off the road
- Keith's Dinerrestaurantkm 22.2 · 1788 m off the road
- Mary Brownsrestaurantkm 22.2 · 1718 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 42
- The Captain's Tablerestaurantkm 46.1
- Riverside Restaurant and Loungerestaurantkm 73.7
- Bernard Kavanagh's Restaurantrestaurantkm 83.5
- Lighthouse Picnicsrestaurantkm 84.9
- In Da Loop Restaurant & Pubpubkm 97.7
- Brophy's Convenience Plus (Jerome's)restaurantkm 98.4
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
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What has been recorded near here
Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Trepassey, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, August, June546 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, June, August97 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 Trepassey
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- Mistaken Point Interpretation Centretown12 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Pine Lighthouselighthouse28 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Race Lighthouselighthouse32 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
- Fermeuse km 98, Trepassey km 156
- Longest stretch without one
- 98 km
- St. John's → Fermeuse, of 156 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Trepassey
- at Trepassey
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: 85% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 15%
- 22.2 km of 155.9 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 85%
- 123.4 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 2026-09-13. 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 the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is about twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. After city roads and a stretch of motorway, this drive is two-lane Route 10 down the Southern Shore, unlit and far from the communities for long stretches. On a late arrival, think about waiting for daylight.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Nothing on the route is mapped as unpaved, but the exposed coast of Route 10 near Trepassey can be very different from the city streets at the start. Check before you leave the airport, especially outside summer.
511nl.ca →Seabird tour boats at Witless BayTypically spring into the autumn — the province and the operators state the dates
The birds of Witless Bay Ecological Reserve are seen from the water. The province allows only permit holders to land on the islands and lists the tour-boat operators licensed to work inside the reserve. Check the reserve's page for the operators, and the operators for times and prices.
gov.nl.ca →Guided tours at Mistaken PointTypically late spring into the autumn — the reserve states the dates
Fossils in the reserve can be seen only on an official guided tour or with a permit, leaving from the Interpretation Centre in Portugal Cove South, and the province warns that tours are often fully booked ahead. Dates, fees and booking are on the reserve's own page.
gov.nl.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 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
Measured the other way, Trepassey back to St. John's is the same distance: 156 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 St. John's International Airport →
Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions
How far is the drive from St. John's Airport to Trepassey?＋
155.9 km on Routes 40, 2, 3 and 10: out of the city, then south down the Avalon Peninsula's Southern Shore on the Irish Loop Drive.
Should I fly into St. John's, Gander or Deer Lake for Trepassey?＋
St. John's: 156 km start to finish. Gander is 395 km away and Deer Lake 698 km.
Is it a hard drive?＋
No. City roads and motorway get you clear of St. John's, then two-lane Route 10 runs the whole way south, and none of it is mapped as unpaved. The one thing to plan around is the unlit run down the Southern Shore after dark (see the moose note above).
How do I see the fossils at Mistaken Point?＋
By guided tour or permit only. The province's Natural Areas interpreters run the tours from the Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre in Portugal Cove South, on Route 10 on the way to Trepassey, and say space is limited and often booked ahead. Check the reserve's own page for tour times before you plan around it.
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