Comfort Cove-Newstead → Twillingate
Comfort Cove-Newstead to Twillingate
- Distance
- 85 km
- Drive time
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Stop 1: Boyd's Cove Beothuk Interpretation CentreDetour
A provincial interpretation centre on the site of a Beothuk winter settlement, on a turn off Route 340. It opens seasonally; confirm hours with the site before you count on it.
Stopping here adds 4.2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Boyd's Cove Beothuk Interpretation Centre ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Dildo Run Provincial Park
A ParksNL provincial park on the causeway stretch through Dildo Run, and the campground on this drive closest to the archipelago. ParksNL publishes the season and sites.
Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Dildo Run Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: BridgeportDetour
West off Route 340 onto Route 345, out along the shore. A detour, for when you have time and there is something in the bay to see.
Stopping here adds 20.7 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Bridgeport ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Long Point LighthouseDetour
The headland most berg-watchers stand on: the lighthouse at Long Point, past Crow Head at the island's tip, with a historical exhibit alongside. The best lookout on a given day depends on where the ice is.
Stopping here adds 13.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Long Point Lighthouse ↑Other map apps
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Drive measured Oct 16, 2026, town centre to town centre, checked 2026-10-16; the same in both directions. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
85 km, the same each way. Out of Comfort Cove-Newstead on Route 343, then north on Route 340, the Road to the Isles, over the causeways through New World Island to Twillingate.
Why drive it. Twillingate’s headlands are where the province sends people to watch icebergs in season; the lighthouse at Long Point is past the town.
When you get to Twillingate
- Staying in Twillingate? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Twillingate → — 16 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
14 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 57.8 km — from the start of the drive, until Greco Pizza.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Greco Pizzarestaurantkm 57.8
- Doyle Sansome & Sons Lobster Poolrestaurantkm 68.8 · 614 m off the road
- The Orchid Cafecafékm 81.5
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 84
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 84.4
- Twillingate-NWI Dinner Theatrerestaurantkm 84.6 · 460 m off the road
- D&T Restaurantrestaurantkm 84.6 · 162 m off the road
- R&J Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 84.7 · 463 m off the road
- Golden Restaurantrestaurantkm 84.7 · 271 m off the road
- Tasty Thai & Pizzarestaurantkm 84.7 · 543 m off the road
- Annie'srestaurantkm 84.7 · 704 m off the road
- Canvas Cove Bistrorestaurantkm 84.7 · 443 m off the road
- Blue Barrel Cafecafékm 84.7 · 1231 m off the road
- Pier 39restaurantkm 84.7 · 608 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-10-16. How we measure · Add a missing place
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.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- none
- Longest stretch without one
- 85 km
- the start → Twillingate, of 85 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Twillingate
- 89 km
- by road, at Lewisporte
No fast charger at Twillingate. From the start it is 85 km there and the same back: plan on about 170 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Lewisporte, 89 km from Twillingate by road, off this drive's own road.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-10. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 17%
- 11.9 km of 85 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 83%
- 60.1 km: surface not recorded
Why it matters: 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. The terms themselves. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-10-16. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
IcebergsTypically late spring into early summer
Iceberg presence varies year to year and week to week. Check current sightings before you drive; do not plan around a date.
Check it now →Boyd's Cove Beothuk Interpretation CentreSeasonal — the operator publishes the dates
The provincial historic sites service runs the centre and publishes its season and hours.
Check it now →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states that the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is unlit two-lane road for nearly all of it, so take care on the drive back in the evening.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 340 is the only road to the islands and carries the Twillingate traffic. Check before winter driving.
Check it now →
Onward from Twillingate
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
Questions people actually ask
How far is Twillingate from Comfort Cove-Newstead?＋
85 km, measured town centre to town centre. It is the same in both directions.
What roads?＋
Route 343 out of Comfort Cove-Newstead to Route 340, then north on 340 over the causeways through New World Island to Twillingate. No ferry.
Is it closer than from Gander airport?＋
Yes: Twillingate is 113.8 km from the airport terminal, so starting here saves 28.8 km each way.
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