Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Corner Brook
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Corner Brook
- Drive time
- 47 min
- Distance
- 56.9 km
Conservative model estimate, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Corner Brook — 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, terminal door to the city, checked 2026-09-03.
Drive it with your own nav:Organic Maps →OsmAnd →Apple →Google →Waze →The first two run on OpenStreetMap and don't track you — the same map this site is built from.
Or take the whole route with you: Download the GPX → — the measured drive plus every stop as a waypoint, for Organic Maps, OsmAnd or any Garmin, no account and no signal needed once it's on the device.
No one has sent a recording of this drive yet.Be the first — send the track →
The terminal side — parking, arrivals, ground transport — is the airport's own information: Deer Lake Regional Airport →
Corner Brook is the drive most YDF travellers make without a page — the west coast’s city, 47 minutes of Humber Valley highway from the terminal. This page exists for the part they skip: the Captain James Cook Memorial on its headland above the Arm, a mapped monument ringed by a mapped lookout path, marking the man who surveyed this coast a decade before the Endeavour sailed. The detour is priced honestly — 4.5 km and ten minutes of climbing streets — and the view is the whole Bay of Islands at once.
The page keeps the site’s discipline in a city context: no restaurant lists, no accommodation picks, no claims about what is open — the city is thoroughly capable of telling its own story. What it needed from us was a measured road and a reason; both are above.
Faded on the map: the other measured drives from Deer Lake Regional into this same region, each its own page — Marble Mountain Base Lodge (39 min). Where a faded line leaves the solid one is where that drive forks from this one.
Worth stopping for
Pepsi CentreDetour
The west coast's big indoor ice — OpenStreetMap tags it for ice skating, hockey and gymnastics, five minutes off this drive in the middle of the city. Public-skate hours and rentals are the Centre's own schedule; check theirs, not ours.
Stopping here adds about 5 min and 2.5 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeBlow Me Down Cross Country Ski ParkDetour
The west coast's cross-country answer to Marble Mountain's downhill, ten minutes south of the city: 37 km of trails mapped in OpenStreetMap as piste:type=nordic — 27 of them named, from Jack Rabbit to Heart Break Ridge — plus a mapped biathlon range and a Main Lodge, measured from the map 2026-09-04. Grooming, season and fees are the club's call, not ours; the live strip above says whether there is snow on the ground at all. This is the fully drawn nordic network the Gander side's Airport Nordic is still waiting for.
Stopping here adds about 10 min and 6.8 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeCaptain James Cook MemorialDetour
The mapped historic monument and lookout above the city, with the Captain James Cook Lookout Path threading the headland around it. Cook charted this bay before he charted the Pacific; the view down the Humber Arm explains why the survey mattered. Ten minutes of climbing streets buys the whole geography.
Stopping here adds about 10 min and 4.5 km to the drive.
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What has been recorded near here
Species reported within 50 km of Corner Brook 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 September, August, July138 reports on record
- Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in July, June, August8 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in January, May, July6 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July1 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.
When you get to Corner Brook
- Where to eat in Corner Brook → — 72 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Kinsmen Baseball Field → · Kinsmen Soccer Field → · Pepsi Centre → — the venues here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Deer Lake km 4, Corner Brook km 54
- Longest stretch without one
- 50 km
- Deer Lake → Corner Brook, of 57 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Corner Brook
- at Corner Brook
NL Hydro lists an ultra-fast site coming in 2026 at Deer Lake (km 0) — not counted above until it opens.
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
- 32%
- 12.9 km of 56.9 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 68%
- 27.2 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 2026-09-06. 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
41 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 21.5 km — after Langers, until Oasis Grill House. That is the figure worth planning around.
- Big Stop Restaurantrestaurantkm 4.1
- Tim Hortonfast foodkm 4.1 · 222 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 4.6 · 192 m off the road
- Wingn' itrestaurantkm 5.1
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 5.7 · 235 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 5.8 · 225 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 5.8 · 178 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 5.9 · 177 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 6
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 6.1
- Peter's Pizzafast foodkm 6.1
- Langerspubkm 6.2 · 550 m off the road
- Oasis Grill Houserestaurantkm 27.7 · 244 m off the road
- Cafe 59restaurantkm 27.7 · 863 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 46
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 53.5 · 1351 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 53.5 · 1086 m off the road
- Wendy'sfast foodkm 53.5 · 1596 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 54.1 · 207 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 54.2 · 190 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 54.2 · 200 m off the road
- Samuel's Sammiches and Sweetsrestaurantkm 54.9 · 225 m off the road
- King Henry's Pubpubkm 55.4 · 393 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 55.4 · 272 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 55.4 · 247 m off the road
- Crown and Moosepubkm 55.5 · 269 m off the road
- Brewed Awakeningcafékm 55.5 · 253 m off the road
- Harbour Grounds (Café)cafékm 55.8
- Rinda's Kitchenrestaurantkm 56.1
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 56.4 · 151 m off the road
- Newfound Sushirestaurantkm 56.4 · 521 m off the road
- Taste of Jamaicarestaurantkm 56.4 · 454 m off the road
- Robin'sfast foodkm 56.4 · 240 m off the road
- Gina's Pubpubkm 56.5 · 1752 m off the road
- Union Street Bar & Billiardspubkm 56.5 · 1157 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 56.5 · 1027 m off the road
- Tai-An Restaurantrestaurantkm 56.5 · 1006 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 56.5 · 1017 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 56.5 · 218 m off the road
- Soccer Field Canteenrestaurantkm 56.5 · 624 m off the road
- Sorrentorestaurantkm 56.6 · 193 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.
MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states that the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime — short even on city-bound drives; the valley stretch is still highway.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The Humber Valley funnels weather; the same stretch that serves Marble Mountain serves this drive, with the same winter caveats.
Check it now →
Arriving without a car
Every distance and time on this page is a drive. If you are not renting, here is what Deer Lake Regional Airport lists at this door — operators and numbers, not fares: a tariff is theirs to change, so it is linked and not copied.
No rideshare here.
No rideshare service is named anywhere on the airport's ground-transportation page, which instead lists three taxi firms, a shuttle and seven charter operators. Read off the page on 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, which is the single most useful sentence on that page.
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 per-person and private fares are the airport's to publish.
Deer Lake Regional Airport, read 2026-09-15 — the authority on what operates at this kerb, and the only place a current fare or timetable should come from.
Questions people actually ask
Should I fly into Deer Lake or Gander for Corner Brook?＋
Deer Lake, by half a day: 47 minutes against roughly five hours from Gander. YDF is Corner Brook's airport in every practical sense.
Why drive to a city?＋
Because it is the west coast's service hub — the place with everything the outports do not have — and because it holds the Cook lookout, the university campus and the Humber Arm's big-water views. Most travellers pass through; the lookout is the reason to stop.
What is the drive actually like?＋
The same Humber Valley run that carries every western route: Trans-Canada southwest past Steady Brook and Marble Mountain, then off at the 450A into the city's bowl above the Arm. Short, fast, and prettier than a city approach has any right to be.
How does this pair with Marble Mountain?＋
Same road, eleven minutes apart. In winter especially, this page and the Marble page describe one corridor: hill, city, and airport strung along the valley — measured separately because you might drive them separately.
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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