Blanc-Sablon Airport (YBX) → Point Amour Lighthouse
Blanc-Sablon Airport (YBX) to Point Amour Lighthouse
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 40.5 km
- Drive time
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Faded lines are other drives from Blanc-Sablon into this area: Forteau (26 km), Pinware (59 km), Red Bay (91 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Forteau
A village on Route 510, the Labrador Straits road.
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Drive measured Oct 24, 2026, Blanc-Sablon Airport (YBX) to Point Amour Lighthouse. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
40.5 km. Blanc-Sablon airport to Point Amour Lighthouse on Routes 138 and 510.
Completed in 1857 to guide steamships down the Strait of Belle Isle, with 132 steps to the top. A Provincial Historic Site. The provincial historic sites’ page →
Sunrise and sunset at Point Amour Lighthouse, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:16 am | 4:36 pm |
| February | 7:32 am | 5:31 pm |
| March | 7:32 am | 7:21 pm |
| April | 6:22 am | 8:12 pm |
| May | 5:26 am | 9:00 pm |
| June | 4:59 am | 9:35 pm |
| July | 5:17 am | 9:29 pm |
| August | 6:02 am | 8:41 pm |
| September | 6:51 am | 7:33 pm |
| October | 7:40 am | 6:25 pm |
| November | 7:35 am | 4:29 pm |
| December | 8:16 am | 4:09 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.
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Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- 7 km
- a service road (0.19 km, 0.1 km from Point Amour Lighthouse); a secondary road (1 km, 0.8 km from Point Amour Lighthouse); a secondary road (1.32 km, 1.2 km from Point Amour Lighthouse)
- Mapped as paved
- 82%
- 31.7 km of 40.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 0%
- 0.1 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 2026-10-24. 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 puts the likelihood of injury in a moose collision at twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daylight.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, most of all November to April
Check 511 before you set out on Routes 138 and 510, and again before the drive back.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is Point Amour Lighthouse from Blanc-Sablon airport?＋
40.5 km by road, on Routes 138 and 510. Your maps app gives the time on the day.
Is Blanc-Sablon airport in Labrador?＋
No. It is on the Quebec side of the border, the nearest airport to the Labrador Straits.
What is at Point Amour Lighthouse?＋
Completed in 1857 to guide steamships down the Strait of Belle Isle, with 132 steps to the top. A Provincial Historic Site. The provincial historic sites' page has the details.
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