Lewisporte → Boyd's Cove
Lewisporte to Boyd's Cove
- Drive time
- 46 min
- Distance
- 49.6 km
Conservative model estimate, Lewisporte to Boyd's Cove — no stops, dry roads. Many of Newfoundland's provincial routes carry no speed limit in the open map data, so the router assumes a slow default: a driver who knows the road will beat this. Source: OSRM driving profile, town centre to town centre, checked 2026-09-08; measured in both directions and identical each way.
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Forty-six minutes, and it measures the same coming back. Routes 341 and 340 run north-east out of Lewisporte through the country between the bay and the Road to the Isles, and the turn for Boyd’s Cove comes before the causeways carry you on to New World Island and Twillingate.
Nothing on this page is a recommendation about where to stay — the drive is the fact, and it is short. What the figure settles is a question people ask the other way round: whether a town with beds is too far from a town with a site worth seeing. Three quarters of an hour, each way, on a road that measures identically in both directions.
What has been recorded near here
Species reported within 50 km of Boyd's Cove and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in June, July, August412 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June105 reports on record
- Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in October, September, August95 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, June, October67 reports on record
- Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in July, June, August7 reports on record
What this is not
- Not how many there are. A report means somebody looked, saw and wrote it down. A busy harbour with tour boats reports more than an empty coast with the same animals in it.
- Not a sighting you are promised. Nothing here says you will see one.
- Not complete. Only species we ask GBIF about appear, and only where somebody reported them.
From GBIF, queried 2026-09-14 — their record, not a copy of it.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Lewisporte km 3
- Longest stretch without one
- 47 km
- Lewisporte → Boyd's Cove, of 50 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Boyd's Cove
- 46.9 km
- 43 min by road, at Lewisporte
Source: NL Hydro's published fast-charging network map, exported 2026-09-13 — sites within 3 km of this route's measured line, the km read along it, the drive to the nearest site priced by OSRM. NL Hydro lists these as 62.5 kW DC with CCS and CHAdeMO plugs on a ChargePoint account; whether one is free or working right now is the app's to say. Level 2 chargers in towns are not counted.
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 4%
- 1.6 km of 49.6 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 96%
- 33.2 km the map does not describe either way
Why it matters: Hertz Canada’s published rental terms — the one set of Canadian rental terms we could read in full, quoted not recommended — list “use off paved roads or on roads which are not regularly maintained” as misconduct that voids the damage waiver. Read the agreement you sign before leaving the lot. The terms themselves. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-09-08. A road with no tag is unknown, not paved; what any road is like today is on 511.
Eating on the way — measured, not recommended
5 places to eat that the open map data records within 2 km of this drive, in the order you would pass them. No stars, no prices, no opinions, and no opening hours — distance along the road is the one thing measured here that a directory cannot give you.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 45.8 km — after Tim Hortons, to Boyd's Cove. That is the figure worth planning around.
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 3.4
- Greco Pizzarestaurantkm 3.5 · 222 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 3.5
- Subwayfast foodkm 3.5 · 226 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 3.6 · 235 m off the road
What this list is not
- Not a recommendation. Nothing here is endorsed, reviewed or rated. It is in the order you drive past it.
- Not complete. Somewhere unmapped does not appear. This is never "all of them".
- Not open hours. We publish none, because the open data holds none. Never assume a kitchen is serving.
- Not necessarily still trading. A place that closed stays in the data until somebody removes it.
- Not for sale. No one can pay to appear here, to rank higher, or to have a rival removed.
Open map data is incomplete — somewhere unmapped does not appear here, and this is never "all of them" or "the good ones". A place that closed is also still on the map until somebody removes it, which is why no hours are shown and nothing here says a kitchen is open. From OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps (which includes data from Meta, Foursquare and AllThePlaces); swept 2026-09-12. Map the one that is missing → and every site built on the open map gains it, this one included.
Before you go
These change. We link the people who keep them current rather than copying numbers that go stale here.
Beothuk Interpretation CentreThe province operates it seasonally — dates are theirs
The provincial historic sites network runs the centre at Boyd's Cove, above the excavated Beothuk site. Opening dates, hours and admission live on the operator's page and nowhere on this one; this page prices the drive, not the visit. Check before you build an afternoon around it.
Check it now →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Forty-six minutes is short enough to feel casual, and Routes 341 and 340 are unlit two-lane road for nearly all of it — the drive back after closing time is the one to think about.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 340 is the Road to the Isles' corridor and carries traffic to Twillingate beyond this turn-off. Check before winter driving; there is no parallel road.
Check it now →
Questions people actually ask
How long is the drive?＋
49.6 km and about 46 minutes, measured town centre to town centre on the OSRM driving profile. It measures identically in both directions, which is why this page reads either way — 46 minutes there, 46 minutes back, before anything you stop for.
Why would I drive it?＋
Because the two towns answer different questions. Boyd's Cove is where the Beothuk site is; Lewisporte is where you can sleep, provision and leave a boat. This drive is the distance between those two facts, and it is short enough that basing yourself in Lewisporte costs you three quarters of an hour rather than a day.
Can I do it from Gander or Deer Lake instead?＋
You can, and both are measured on this site — Lewisporte is about an hour from Gander and three and a half from Deer Lake. This page exists for the drive people actually make once they have landed and picked somewhere to stay, which is the leg nobody writes down.
Put this map on your site
If you run a place to stay, a tour, or a town page along this drive, this map answers the question your guests already email you: how far are you from the airport? Free, no account, and the measured figures stay current because they are ours to maintain.
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