Offline
No signal is the normal case here
If you landed on this page unexpectedly, you are offline and the page you asked for was not kept on this device. Anything you have opened before, and anything you pressed Keep for offline on, will still work — try it from the routes list or your plan.
Why this site bothers
A CRTC report published in 2025 found that 38% of Newfoundland and Labrador's major-road distance had no mobile coverage at the end of 2023 — second worst of any province, behind only British Columbia. That is the figure as reported by the Globe and Mail from the CRTC's own Canadian Telecommunications Market Report, read on 17 September 2026.
Now put that next to what this site actually is. We do not send people down the Trans-Canada; we send them down Route 340, Route 410, the coast roads and the ferry approaches — the roads that make up that 38%. The moment you most need a drive time, a turn, a stop and a map is the moment the page stops loading. So the pages come with you.
The province runs a Cellular Service Improvement Initiative to close some of these gaps, and the federal Universal Broadband Fund puts money behind road coverage. Both are real and neither has happened yet on the road you are on, so plan for the map you have.
What works with no connection
- Any page you have already opened. Visiting a page keeps a copy; you do not have to do anything.
- Anything you pressed "Keep for offline" on — the page plus the data it needs: the route line, the elevation profile, the stops.
- Your plan. A plan lives entirely in its own web address, so the link is the plan. Saved or sent, it needs nothing from us to reopen.
- Every number. Drive times, distances, climbs, coordinates, road numbers and the sources under them are text on the page, not a lookup.
What does not, and we will not pretend otherwise
- The map tiles. The route line is ours and is kept. The base map underneath — the pale coastline, the roads, the place names — is somebody else's bytes under somebody else's licence, so an offline map draws your line over an empty background. Quietly building a private tile mirror on your phone is not ours to do.
- Live conditions. Weather, snow depth and anything with a clock on it need a connection by definition.
- Turn-by-turn navigation. This site has never done that. The map links hand off to Organic Maps or Waze, and Organic Maps works fully offline once you download its Newfoundland map — do that before you leave. It is the right tool for the job and it is not us.
- Pages you have never opened. Nothing is downloaded behind your back, so a page you have not visited and have not kept is not there.
Keeping it on your phone
There is no app to install and no account to make. Add this site to your home screen and it opens like an app, offline copies included.
- iPhone or iPad: open this site in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
- Android: in Chrome, the menu offers Install app or Add to Home screen.
- Desktop: Chrome and Edge show an install icon in the address bar.
What this costs you
Nothing leaves your device, because there is nowhere for it to go: this is a static site with no server, no accounts and no database. The offline copies are ordinary browser storage — you can clear them any time in your browser's settings, and clearing them breaks nothing. We cannot see what you kept, what you planned, or where you went.