Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
- Distance
- 551 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Faded lines are other drives from Deer Lake Regional into this area: Port Rexton (502 km), Salvage (400 km), Trinity (504 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Indian River
A green space mapped essentially on the driven line. OpenStreetMap records it as a nature reserve but not who runs it, and it is not on ParksNL's list. Treat it as a place to pull over, not somewhere with facilities.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Indian River ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Loggers' Life Provincial MuseumDetour
A reconstructed 1920s logging camp on the west side of Grand Falls-Windsor, mapped right beside the driven line. Central Newfoundland ran on the woods for a century, and the museum shows that work.
Stopping here adds 4.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Loggers' Life Provincial Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: North Atlantic Aviation Museum
On the Trans-Canada at 135, per the museum's own page: Gander's story from 1935 to 2001, the Second World War, the transatlantic crossroads years and 9/11. Hours are linked below.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: North Atlantic Aviation Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Square Pond
A pond-side stop beside the Trans-Canada. OpenStreetMap still uses its old provincial-park name; the province no longer lists it. A place to stretch your legs.
Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Square Pond ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Joey's Lookout
A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada east of Gander, effectively on the road. OpenStreetMap records only the name and that it is a viewpoint. It is easy to miss at highway speed.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Elliston Puffin Viewing PointDetour
The viewpoint facing the Elliston puffin colony, close enough to watch from land in season. The birds keep their own calendar. The spur adds some driving.
Stopping here adds 9.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Elliston Puffin Viewing Point ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze
Scan with your phone to open this page there. Then tap Keep for offline before you lose signal.
⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
- Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 230 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 45 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 4% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 238 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 12 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 36% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 235 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 33 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 2% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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551 km. From Deer Lake airport to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse, on Routes 1, 230, 238 and 235.
When you get to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
- Where to eat near Cape Bonavista Lighthouse → — 16 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
78 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 127.2 km — after Tim Horton, until Eddies Restaurant.
All 78, in the order you pass them — open the list
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 2.6 · 1696 m off the road
- Big Stop Restaurantrestaurantkm 2.6 · 1465 m off the road
- Tim Hortonfast foodkm 2.6 · 1693 m off the road
- Eddies Restaurantrestaurantkm 129.8
- Red Hawk Dinerrestaurantkm 180.6
- Badger Diner & Motelrestaurantkm 180.8
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 209.4 · 858 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 209.6 · 731 m off the road
- Tai Sun Restaurantrestaurantkm 209.6 · 415 m off the road
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairrestaurantkm 209.6 · 434 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 209.6 · 278 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 209.7 · 420 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 209.7 · 531 m off the road
- Wing'n Itrestaurantkm 209.7 · 1257 m off the road
- War Wick'srestaurantkm 209.7 · 1349 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 209.7 · 389 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 209.9 · 978 m off the road
- Sarah's Dinerrestaurantkm 210.3 · 1158 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 210.5 · 474 m off the road
- Greco Pizzafast foodkm 210.5 · 369 m off the road
- Taiwanrestaurantkm 210.5 · 1229 m off the road
- Juniper Kitchen and Bistrorestaurantkm 210.5 · 1247 m off the road
- Furey's Trailway Take-Outfast foodkm 223.6 · 425 m off the road
- Irvingrestaurantkm 223.7
- Tim Hortonscafékm 223.7
- Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 282.1 · 600 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 303.5
- Subwayfast foodkm 303.5
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 303.8
- Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 303.9 · 974 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 303.9
- Louis Geesfast foodkm 303.9 · 809 m off the road
- New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 303.9 · 906 m off the road
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 303.9 · 954 m off the road
- East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 303.9 · 949 m off the road
- Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 304 · 986 m off the road
- Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 304 · 869 m off the road
- Grecofast foodkm 304 · 883 m off the road
- Ches's Fish & Chipsrestaurantkm 304.2 · 956 m off the road
- DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 304.2
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 304.3 · 1866 m off the road
- The Shawarma Stationrestaurantkm 304.3 · 1143 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 304.5 · 1104 m off the road
- Mystic Roomrestaurantkm 304.5 · 800 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 304.5 · 1480 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 304.5 · 1110 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 304.7 · 816 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 304.7 · 1036 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 304.7 · 1045 m off the road
- Wing 'n Itrestaurantkm 304.7 · 1795 m off the road
- Swiss Chaletrestaurantkm 304.8 · 869 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 304.8 · 845 m off the road
- The Newfoundland Tea Co. Restaurant & Shoprestaurantkm 305 · 1906 m off the road
- Copper Kettle Restaurantrestaurantkm 333.9
- Family Pizzarestaurantkm 340.7 · 1870 m off the road
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 370.4
- Happy Adventure Cafecafékm 378.4 · 1229 m off the road
- Snack shack.fast foodkm 417 · 624 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 455.8 · 153 m off the road
- Dunrovinrestaurantkm 457.1 · 173 m off the road
- The Galleyrestaurantkm 498.5
- Port Rexton Brewerypubkm 499.7 · 714 m off the road
- Oh my Cheesesfast foodkm 499.7 · 726 m off the road
- 2 Whales cafecafékm 500.2
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 541.1
- Neil's Yardcafékm 542.7 · 1196 m off the road
- Mifflin's Tea Roomcafékm 542.7 · 515 m off the road
- PK's Restaurant and Take-Outrestaurantkm 542.7 · 686 m off the road
- Bonavista Bicycle Picnics and Cafecafékm 542.7 · 1142 m off the road
- The Quintal Cafécafékm 542.7 · 561 m off the road
- Ragged Rocks Gastropubpubkm 542.7 · 618 m off the road
- The Boreal Dinerrestaurantkm 542.7 · 549 m off the road
- Walkham's Gate Pub & Cafepubkm 542.7 · 620 m off the road
- Mifflin's Tea Roomcafékm 542.7 · 515 m off the road
- Bonavista Brewing Taproompubkm 542.7 · 517 m off the road
- Marsh's Snack Barrestaurantkm 542.7 · 440 m off the road
- Oceanview Restaurantrestaurantkm 545
- Restaurant glace take outrestaurantkm 547.2
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-10-18. How we measure · Add a missing place
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Short drives from Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Cape Bonavista Lighthouse.
- Dungeon Provincial Parkstop5.1 km
A ParksNL day-use park around a collapsed sea cave, with two ocean windows in a sheep pasture, just before the cape.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mathew (ship) Replicamuseum6.8 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mockbeggar Plantationstop6.8 km
A provincial historic site and the legacy of F.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Ryan Premises National Historic Sitestop7.1 km
The Parks Canada site on Bonavista's waterfront tells five centuries of the salt-fish trade in the merchant premises where it ran.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze Opened at Elliston in June 2014, a hundred years after the disaster it exists for.
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Distances by road, measured on OpenStreetMap October 16, 2026, from where this route ends. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Deer Lake km 3, South Brook km 130, Bishop’s Falls km 222, Gander km 305, Glowertown km 371, Port Blandford km 418, Port Rexton km 500, Bonavista km 542
- Longest stretch without one
- 127 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 550 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
- 7.9 km
- by road, at Bonavista
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Deer Lake (km 0) and Gander (km 305). Not counted until it opens.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-22. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 61% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 39%
- 196.7 km of 551 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 61%
- 307.8 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 2026-10-19. 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 says the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is 551 km, much of it unlit two-lane highway; plan the drive for daylight where you can.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Conditions at one end of the island say little about the other. Check before you set off.
511nl.ca →
Renting a car? Book the car when you book the flight.
Summer rentals sell out, says NL Tourism, and in June 2026 BNN Bloomberg reported St. John's airport agencies booked for nearly all of summer.
Both checked October 7, 2026.
Rental counters at Deer Lake, with numbers →Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who Deer Lake Regional Airport lists at the terminal.
No rideshare here.
The airport's ground-transportation page lists no rideshare service, only three taxi firms, a shuttle and seven charter operators (checked 2026-09-15).
Taxi
Star Taxi, which the airport calls its primary ground transportation provider, serving the whole region with wheelchair-accessible vans and accommodating service dogs. The airport advises contacting them 24 to 48 hours before you arrive.
Taxi
Deer Lake Taxi, listed as operating around the clock across the province with no pre-booking required.
Shuttle
Star Taxi runs a shuttle between Corner Brook and the airport, serving named hotels, with a private-car option. It must be booked ahead. The airport publishes the fares.
Coach
DRL Coachlines' once-a-day coach each way between St. John's and Port aux Basques stops in Deer Lake town (the Circle K), not at the airport terminal. It reaches no island and no national park. Tickets are bought on the bus, cash only. Times and fares are DRL's: drl-lr.com.
Source: Deer Lake Regional Airport,2026-09-15. Check there for fares and times.
Questions
How far is Cape Bonavista Lighthouse from Deer Lake airport?＋
551 km from the terminal to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1, 230, 238 and 235. Your maps app has the turns.
Do I need a car?＋
Plan on one. Buses between these towns are few, and the drive is the way most people make it.
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