Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Marble Mountain Base Lodge
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Marble Mountain
- Distance
- 47.3 km
- Roads
- Route 1
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Stop 1: Deer Lake visitor centre
Where the airport road meets the Trans-Canada. The last easy chance for a paper map or a person to ask.
Directions →Show on map: Deer Lake visitor centre ↑Other map apps
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An insect museum close to the terminal. Check its hours before detouring with kids in the car.
Stopping here adds 1.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Newfoundland Insectarium ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Joe Butts Lookout
A mapped viewpoint just off the highway at the Deer Lake end, with a quick look at the country ahead.
Stopping here adds 1.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joe Butts Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Pasadena's beach on Deer LakeDetour
An unnamed lakefront beach on Deer Lake at Pasadena, halfway along the drive. A summer stop on a mostly winter route.
Stopping here adds 3.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Pasadena's beach on Deer Lake ↑Other map apps
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Scan with your phone to open this page there. Then tap Keep for offline before you lose signal.
Drive measured Sep 2, 2026, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Marble Mountain Base Lodge. 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 →
47.3 km. Deer Lake airport to Marble Mountain’s base lodge: the Trans-Canada along the lake and down the Humber Valley, with the ski hill rising straight off the highway at Steady Brook.
Why people come. skimarble.com claims over 536 metres of vertical across 43 runs. Cross-country skiers want Blow Me Down Cross Country Ski Park, on the far side of Corner Brook: 16.6 km from the base lodge, measured.
When you get to Marble Mountain Base Lodge
- Where to eat near Marble Mountain Base Lodge → 4 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Marble Mountain Base Lodge, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:33 am | 8:09 am | 4:50 pm | 5:26 pm |
| Feb | 6:57 am | 7:30 am | 5:40 pm | 6:13 pm |
| Mar | 7:04 am | 7:36 am | 7:25 pm | 7:57 pm |
| Apr | 5:57 am | 6:31 am | 8:11 pm | 8:45 pm |
| May | 5:01 am | 5:39 am | 8:55 pm | 9:33 pm |
| Jun | 4:33 am | 5:16 am | 9:26 pm | 10:09 pm |
| Jul | 4:52 am | 5:32 am | 9:21 pm | 10:02 pm |
| Aug | 5:38 am | 6:13 am | 8:38 pm | 9:13 pm |
| Sep | 6:25 am | 6:56 am | 7:36 pm | 8:07 pm |
| Oct | 7:08 am | 7:40 am | 6:32 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Nov | 6:55 am | 7:30 am | 4:42 pm | 5:16 pm |
| Dec | 7:31 am | 8:08 am | 4:24 pm | 5:01 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 Marble Mountain Base Lodge →
11 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 21.5 km, after Langers.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- 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
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.
Run a place to stay near Marble Mountain Base Lodge?
Places to stay on this site come from Best Kind Stays, run by the same people: places that book with their owner, never a booking platform. Listing is free and nothing paid changes the order.
How to be listed on Best Kind Stays ↗Want directions on your own booking page? That's a separate, private service and never appears here. Email us to ask
Here in winter? November to April ▾
Marble Mountain declares its own season, lifts and hours: the hill's own page →
In Gros Morne National Park, up the road, in Parks Canada's words:
- Western Brook Pond boat tour Not in winter: “Mid May to mid October.”
- Visitor Centre, Rocky Harbour Open in winter: “Open year-round with reduced hours that are subject to change. October 13, 2026 to May 13, 2027: Monday – Friday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm; closed Saturday, Sunday, including holidays.”
- Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse Grounds only: “May 15 to October 12, 2026. Grounds open year-round.”
- Camping Open in winter: “Green Point Campground is open year-round. … in winter, the campground operates on a self-registration basis.”
- Snowshoeing Open in winter: “Some of the park’s hiking trails make great snowshoe routes!”
- Cross-country skiing Open in winter: “The ski season in Gros Morne extends from January to April. … Visitor Centre Trails: 10.8 km of regularly groomed trails … The Owl Trail is lit nightly until 10 p.m.”
- Backcountry ski and snowshoe Open in winter: “Snow and ice conditions in these areas are most reliable from mid-January through late March but often extend into mid-April. … Trips are best suited to experienced skiers in groups.”
Winter in Gros Morne (Parks Canada) → Snow months and daylight →
Quoted from Parks Canada's pages, read October 8, 2026.
Short drives from Marble Mountain Base Lodge
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- Gorge Viewpointstop9.9 km
- Corner Brooktown10 km
- Captain James Cook Memorialstop12 km
The mapped historic monument and lookout above the city, with the Captain James Cook Lookout Path threading the headland around it.
- Pepsi Centrestop13 km
The west coast's big indoor ice.
- Cardio Climbtrail · 7.6 km walk · moderate13 km
- Blow Me Down Cross Country Ski Parkstop17 km
The west coast's cross-country answer to Marble Mountain's downhill, just south of the city: 37 km of mapped ski trails, 27 of them named, from Jack Rabbit to Heart Break Ridge, plus a biathlon range and a Main Lodge (measured from the map 2026-09-04).
- Barachois Pond Provincial Parkstop73 km
The ParksNL camping park on this road: the province's 2026 camping list carries it, open May 15 to September 14 that year, dates subject to the weather.
- Stuckless Pond Trailtrail · 9.5 km lollipop · moderate87 km
Distances by road from Marble Mountain Base Lodge, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
The trail
The line by each walk is its height, from start to finish.
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Deer Lake km 4
- Longest stretch without one
- 43 km
- Deer Lake → Marble Mountain Base Lodge, of 47 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Marble Mountain Base Lodge
- 9.2 km
- by road, at Corner Brook
No fast charger at Marble Mountain Base Lodge. From the last fast charger, in Deer Lake, it is 43 km there and the same back: plan on about 86 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or go by way of Corner Brook and charge there (50 km from the charger at Deer Lake): then it is 9.2 km to Marble Mountain Base Lodge and the same back, about 18 km on one charge.
The chargers
Deer Lake km 4 of the drive
Irving Oil 62-102 Trans-Canada Highway
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeCorner Brook 9.2 km from Marble Mountain Base Lodge by road
Irving Oil (Confederation Drive) 8 Confederation Drive
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: 83% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 17%
- 5.4 km of 47.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 83%
- 26.6 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
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
Ski seasonWinter — the exact dates are the mountain's call
Opening day, lift schedule, tickets and snow conditions are on the resort's own site. Check before you book the flight, and again before you drive up.
skimarble.com →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Most people drive this in winter. Check the provincial cameras before leaving the terminal: the Humber Valley stretch gets weather the airport does not.
511nl.ca →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 winter days put the drive back after skiing in that window.
gov.nl.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, Marble Mountain Base Lodge back to Deer Lake is the same distance: 47 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
Should I fly into Deer Lake or Gander for Marble Mountain?＋
Deer Lake: 47 km against 351 km from Gander.
Can I ski the day I land?＋
The drive will not stop you: 47 km, one highway. Check the mountain's site for the day's lift hours and conditions.
What is the drive actually like?＋
One road the whole way: the Trans-Canada southwest from the airport junction, along Deer Lake itself past Pasadena, then down the Humber Valley until the hill appears at Steady Brook. The base lodge is one turn off the highway.
What does the mountain itself claim?＋
The resort's own site, skimarble.com, states over 536 metres of vertical across 43 runs, and calls it the highest drop in Atlantic Canada. We measured only the road figures above.
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