Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → La Scie
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to La Scie
Icebergs: book late May and early June →
In season this is Fantastic: a viewing spot the province names (source).
- Electric: plan 410 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 208.3 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Faded lines are other drives from Deer Lake Regional into this area: Baie Verte (159 km), Pilley's Island ferry terminal (171 km), Triton (175 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Flatwater Pond Provincial Park
A Provincial Park Reserve on Route 410, effectively on the driven line. ParksNL classes reserves as former camping parks whose campground was privatised before 1997, with no visitor services. There is very little else on this stretch.
Directions →Show on map: Flatwater Pond Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
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Drive measured Aug 30, 2026, terminal to town centre. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Keep for offline ↓Download GPX (offline, Garmin)Airport info: Deer Lake Regional Airport →
208.3 km. Deer Lake airport to La Scie, at the top of the Baie Verte Peninsula: the Trans-Canada, then Routes 410 and 414. From Gander it is 324 km.
Why people come. La Scie is on the province’s list of the more popular places to watch icebergs from, and it is a Deer Lake trip, not a Gander one.
When you get to La Scie
- Where to eat near La Scie → — 1 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
4 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 203.5 km — after Tim Horton, until Critch's.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 2.5 · 1696 m off the road
- Big Stop Restaurantrestaurantkm 2.5 · 1465 m off the road
- Tim Hortonfast foodkm 2.5 · 1693 m off the road
- Critch'srestaurantkm 206 · 178 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-09-12. How we measure · Add a missing place
New place to eat, or one that's missing? This list comes from OpenStreetMap, so nobody can pay to be on it. Add it to the map yourself (about twenty minutes on a phone), or email us the details and we'll put it on the map.
Icebergs recorded here, not at 48°N
The odds on this site come from the count of bergs crossing 48°N, out in the shipping lanes. These are the ones the same patrol recorded near La Scie itself, across 19 seasons (2002–2021), counted as distinct icebergs rather than sightings.
At least one was recorded within 50 km in 18 of those 19 seasons. The middling season brought 57; the heaviest, 447 in 2011. Widen to 100 km and the middling season is 157.
This is not what you would see from the shore. It is where a patrol whose job is shipping recorded ice, so where they looked shapes it, and a berg 50 km out to sea is not a berg in the harbour. The record runs to 2021 and stops there. From the International Ice Patrol Iceberg Sightings Database (NSIDC G00807), built 2026-10-07.
What has been recorded near here
Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of La Scie, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in September, July, June21 reports on record
Reports, not counts: busy harbours report more. No sighting is promised, and the list covers only the species we look up. Source: GBIF, the international record of wildlife sightings, checked 2026-10-07.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Deer Lake km 3
- Longest stretch without one
- 205 km
- Deer Lake → La Scie, of 208 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to La Scie
- 145.6 km
- by road, at South Brook
No fast charger at La Scie. From Deer Lake it is 205 km there and the same back: plan on about 410 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at South Brook, 145.6 km from La Scie by road, off this drive's own road.
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-10): Deer Lake (km 0). Not counted until it opens.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-10. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 60%
- 123.2 km of 208.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 40%
- 82.9 km: surface not recorded
Why it matters: 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. 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. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
IcebergsTypically late spring into early summer
Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism names La Scie among its more popular viewing places. Icebergs vary year to year. Check current sightings before a 208 km drive.
Check it now →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. Routes 410 and 414 are long, unlit and quiet, and people often start this 208 km drive late.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Check before you turn off the Trans-Canada. Route 414 has few services and no way around a closure.
Check it now →
Onward from La Scie
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
Renting a car? Book the car when you book the flight.
Summer rentals sell out, says NL Tourism, and in June 2026 CTV reported St. John's airport agencies booked for nearly all of summer.
Both read 2026-10-07.
Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who Deer Lake Regional Airport lists at the door. Fares change, so we link to them instead.
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, La Scie back to Deer Lake is the same distance: 208 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 people actually ask
How far is the drive from Deer Lake Regional Airport to La Scie?＋
208.3 km: east on the Trans-Canada, north up Route 410 onto the Baie Verte Peninsula, then east on Route 414 to the coast.
Should I fly into Deer Lake or Gander for La Scie?＋
Deer Lake, by 116 km. It is 208 km from Deer Lake against 324 km from Gander. It is one of the province's iceberg spots that is closer to Deer Lake than to Gander, which is easy to miss.
Is it worth going this far for icebergs?＋
Only if there are icebergs, so check first. It is 208 km each way from Deer Lake, with little between the Trans-Canada and the coast: a full day, not a detour. From Gander, Twillingate is shorter.
Do I need a rental car?＋
Yes. This is 208 km to a small coastal town at the end of Route 414, and there is no scheduled service anywhere near it.
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