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Lewisporte → Boyd's Cove

Lewisporte to Boyd's Cove

Distance
49.6 km
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Aerial over Boyd's Cove harbour and islands, deep blue.
Aerial over Boyd's Cove harbour and islands, deep blue.Photo: Shhewitt · source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Driving route from Lewisporte to Boyd's Cove: 49.6 km by road, via Routes 341 · 340.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line measured along OpenStreetMap's roads.
⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
  • Route 341 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 24 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% 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.
Electric: plan 94 km on a charge ↓

Drive measured Sep 8, 2026, town centre to town centre, checked 2026-09-08; measured in both directions and identical each way. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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49.6 km, the same each way. Lewisporte to Boyd’s Cove on Routes 341 and 340, north-east between the bay and the Road to the Isles. The turn comes before the causeways to New World Island and Twillingate.

What it settles. A town with beds is 50 km from the Beothuk site, each way.

Sunrise and sunset at Boyd's Cove, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:22 am7:59 am4:35 pm5:12 pm
Feb6:45 am7:18 am5:26 pm5:59 pm
Mar6:51 am7:23 am7:12 pm7:44 pm
Apr5:43 am6:17 am7:59 pm8:33 pm
May4:46 am5:25 am8:44 pm9:22 pm
Jun4:17 am5:01 am9:16 pm9:59 pm
Jul4:36 am5:18 am9:10 pm9:52 pm
Aug5:23 am5:59 am8:27 pm9:03 pm
Sep6:11 am6:43 am7:23 pm7:55 pm
Oct6:56 am7:28 am6:19 pm6:51 pm
Nov6:44 am7:19 am4:27 pm5:02 pm
Dec7:20 am7:58 am4:09 pm4:47 pm

Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. First and last light are when the sun is 6° below the horizon: light enough to see and shoot by. The weather line at the top has today's.

Places to eat on the way

Near the start, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat in Lewisporte →

Nothing mapped between the two ends.

Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, read 2026-09-12 (how we measure). Missing one? Add it to the map or email us the details.

Run a place to stay near Boyd's Cove?

Places to stay on this site come from Best Kind Stays, run by the same people: places that book with their owner, never a booking platform. Listing is free and nothing paid changes the order.

How to be listed on Best Kind Stays ↗

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Access, as its own page says: Partly step-free: The Beothuk Interpretation Centre: ground level, automatic door, accessible washroom stalls. The trail to the archaeological site has stairs. Accessible travel, with the sources →

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
by road, at Lewisporte

No fast charger at Boyd's Cove. From the last fast charger, in Lewisporte, it is 47 km there and the same back: plan on about 94 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Lewisporte, 46.9 km from Boyd's Cove by road, off this drive's own road.

The chargers

  • Lewisporte km 3 of the drive

    Brittany Inns Hotel 373 Main St, Lewisporte, NL A0G 3A0

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

    Directions →
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Charging: about 100 km of range every 15 minutes, and most EVs to 80% in less than an hour. You start it with a free ChargePoint account, with the ChargePoint app or card. NL Hydro, read November 1, 2026.

NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported October 22, 2026. How we measure

Every route compared →NL Hydro: plan your road trip →

Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
none
Not proof it is all paved: 96% has no surface tag.
Mapped as paved
4%
1.6 km of 49.6 km driven
No surface tag on the map
96%
33.2 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 2026-09-08. Today's road conditions: 511.

Before you go

These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.

  • 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. Check the operator's page for dates, hours and admission before you plan an afternoon around it.

    seethesites.ca →
  • 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. Routes 341 and 340 are unlit two-lane road for nearly all of it, so take care on the drive back after closing time.

    gov.nl.ca →
  • 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.

    511nl.ca →

Onward from Boyd's Cove

The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.

Questions

How far is the drive?+

49.6 km, measured town centre to town centre on the OSRM driving profile. It is the same in both directions.

Why would I drive it?+

Boyd's Cove has the Beothuk site; Lewisporte is where you can sleep, stock up and leave a boat. Basing yourself in Lewisporte costs 50 km each way, not a day.

Can I do it from Gander or Deer Lake instead?+

Yes, both have their own pages: Lewisporte is 63 km from Gander and 276 km from Deer Lake. This page is the leg you drive once you have landed and picked somewhere to stay.

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Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on September 8, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap node/107362425. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/107364811 — Boyds Cove. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms