Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Botwood
- Distance
- 244 km
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Places to stay in Botwood
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Stop 1: 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 2: Mary March Provincial Museum
A few hundred metres off the Trans-Canada in the middle of Grand Falls-Windsor, telling the story of the Beothuk and of central Newfoundland's interior. It comes near the end of the drive and makes a good break.
Stopping here adds 0.6 km to the drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Bishop’s Falls Heritage Centre
Mapped in the centre of Bishop's Falls, close to where this drive leaves the Trans-Canada for Route 350 north. The town grew around the pulp-and-paper mill and the rail junction, and the centre keeps that history.
Stopping here adds 1.5 km to the drive.
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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 350 →Whole road: 2 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 48 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 95% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 5, 2026, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Botwood. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Download GPX (offline, Garmin)Airport info: Deer Lake Regional Airport →
244 km. Deer Lake airport to Botwood: the Trans-Canada across the interior, then north on Route 350.
Gander is closer. This drive suits a trip that starts on the west coast and works east.
Break it at Grand Falls-Windsor or Bishop’s Falls, late in the drive, for their museums. Botwood is where transatlantic flying boats once staged before the ocean crossing.
When you get to Botwood
- Where to eat near Botwood → 6 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Harry Ivany Arena → · Soccor Field, Botwood → · Softball Field, Botwood → — the venues here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at Botwood, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:24 am | 8:00 am | 4:39 pm | 5:16 pm |
| Feb | 6:48 am | 7:21 am | 5:30 pm | 6:03 pm |
| Mar | 6:54 am | 7:26 am | 7:15 pm | 7:47 pm |
| Apr | 5:47 am | 6:20 am | 8:02 pm | 8:35 pm |
| May | 4:50 am | 5:28 am | 8:46 pm | 9:24 pm |
| Jun | 4:22 am | 5:05 am | 9:17 pm | 10:00 pm |
| Jul | 4:41 am | 5:22 am | 9:12 pm | 9:53 pm |
| Aug | 5:27 am | 6:02 am | 8:29 pm | 9:04 pm |
| Sep | 6:14 am | 6:46 am | 7:26 pm | 7:58 pm |
| Oct | 6:59 am | 7:31 am | 6:22 pm | 6:54 pm |
| Nov | 6:46 am | 7:21 am | 4:31 pm | 5:06 pm |
| Dec | 7:22 am | 7:59 am | 4:13 pm | 4:51 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 either end, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat in Deer Lake → · where to eat near Botwood →
22 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 127.3 km, after Tim Horton, until Eddies Restaurant.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- 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 · 279 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 · 980 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 · 1249 m off the road
- Furey's Trailway Take-Outfast foodkm 223.5 · 423 m off the road
- Irvingrestaurantkm 223.7
- Tim Hortonscafékm 223.7
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.
Short drives from Botwood
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- Botwoodtown2.6 km
- Botwood Flying Boat Museumstop2.8 km
In a former WWII anti-submarine base at the Botwood Heritage Park.
- Peter's River Hiking Trailtrail · 5 km walk · easy3.6 km
- Eelbrook Hiking Trailtrail · 2.5 km loop · easy38 km
- Notre Dame Provincial Parkstop48 km
A forested ParksNL park on Junction Pond with a sandy beach, for swimming, canoeing and kayaking, per the province's tourism site.
- Gill's Point Trailtrail · 8.2 km walk · moderate50 km
- Fortune Harbourstop54 km
The end of Route 352, which follows the Bay of Exploits.
- Leading Ticklestown55 km
More, up to 92 km (9)
- Lewisporte Train Parkstop57 km
The town's park on Main Street, with four preserved railway cars on a short length of the old narrow-gauge line.
- Lewisportetown61 km
- Woolfrey's Pond Lookoutstop62 km
The town's pondside park at the edge of Lewisporte, with a lookout and boardwalk loops above the water.
- Glenwood Provincial Parkstop74 km
A campground just off the Trans-Canada, early in the drive, and a first leg-stretch before the long haul west.
- Airport Nordic Ski Clubstop87 km
Trail lengths are missing because the trails are not on the map yet.
- Gander Golf Clubstop90 km
The closest golf course to the Gander terminal, right off this road.
- North Atlantic Aviation Museumstop90 km
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.
- Gandertown90 km
- Cobb's Pond Looptrail · 4.5 km loop · easy92 km
Distances by road from Botwood, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Deer Lake km 3, South Brook km 130, Bishop’s Falls km 222
- Longest stretch without one
- 127 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 244 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Botwood
- 23.9 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
The chargers
Deer Lake km 3 of the drive, 1.4 km off it
Irving Oil 62-102 Trans-Canada Highway
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
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Eddie’s Restaurant 48 Aspen St, South Brook, NL A0J 1S0
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeBishop’s Falls km 222 of the drive, 0.6 km off it
Irving Oil 62 Main St
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
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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.
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, October 22, 2026): Deer Lake, a second site in the same town (km 0; CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · ultra-fast, up to 175 kW to one car, 350 kW where a site has two or more chargers). Not counted until it opens.
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
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 77% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 23%
- 51.9 km of 244 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 77%
- 177 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 2026-09-06. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
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MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is about twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Most of this drive crosses the unlit interior. If you land at Deer Lake late in the day, consider breaking the trip instead of driving on to Botwood after dark.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The Trans-Canada across the interior has long unserviced stretches and gets winter weather well after the coasts have cleared. Check conditions before leaving the airport.
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.
The drive back
Measured the other way, Botwood back to Deer Lake is the same distance: 244 km.
Plan back from your check-in time. Give the planner your flight time and it tells you when to set off.
How early to arrive depends on the carrier and the season: check Deer Lake Regional Airport →
Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions
How far is Botwood from Deer Lake airport?＋
About 244 km. Take the Trans-Canada (Route 1) east most of the way across the island, then Route 350 north into Botwood.
Should I fly into Deer Lake or Gander for Botwood?＋
Gander is far closer: about 92 km against 244 from Deer Lake. If Botwood is your main destination, fly into Gander. Choose Deer Lake only if you are seeing the west coast (Gros Morne, Corner Brook) first.
Is it a hard drive?＋
No. It is paved the whole way and is the main road across the province. It is just long. Plan around arriving after dark (see the moose note above).
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