Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Musgrave Harbour
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Musgrave Harbour and the Straight Shore
- Distance
- 394.8 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Faded lines are other drives from Deer Lake Regional into this area: Farewell ferry terminal (343 km), New-Wes-Valley (422 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: The nordic trails east of townDetour
6.7 km of mapped cross-country ski trail in the woods off the Trans-Canada, just east of Grand Falls-Windsor. The club running them is not named on the map; ask locally about grooming and season. The weather strip above says whether there is snow.
Stopping here adds 2.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: The nordic trails east of town ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Upper Falls Lookout
One of three viewpoints mapped together beside the Trans-Canada at the Norris Arm junction. It is the upper waterfall lookout on the Eel Brook Trail, a short walk past Eel Brook's falls: AllTrails lists it at about 1.3 miles out and back, with Lower Falls Lookout as the other viewpoint.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Upper Falls Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Jonathan's Pond Provincial Park Reserve
A Provincial Park Reserve on Route 330. ParksNL uses that name for a former camping park whose campground was privatised; it is kept for nature and has no visitor services.
Stopping here adds 1.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Jonathan's Pond Provincial Park Reserve ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Carmanville Wetlands Interpretation Center
Carmanville's wetlands interpretation site, beside Route 330 as it rounds Hamilton Sound. Its boardwalk is this shore's birdwatching stop; OSM maps a 'Birdingwatching Trail' in its own spelling.
Directions →Show on map: Carmanville Wetlands Interpretation Center ↑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.
⛽ 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 330 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 42 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 70% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Musgrave Harbour. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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394.8 km. From Deer Lake airport to Musgrave Harbour, on Routes 1 and 330.
When you get to Musgrave Harbour
- Where to eat near Musgrave Harbour → — 3 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
41 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 41, 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
- Tim Hortonscafékm 302.3 · 1603 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 302.3 · 1167 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 302.3 · 1435 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 302.3 · 1211 m off the road
- Louis Geesfast foodkm 302.3 · 1822 m off the road
- Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 302.3 · 1889 m off the road
- Grecofast foodkm 302.3 · 1893 m off the road
- DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 302.3 · 1861 m off the road
- Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 304 · 1858 m off the road
- Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 304 · 1895 m off the road
- New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 304 · 1894 m off the road
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 304 · 1866 m off the road
- East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 304 · 1869 m off the road
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 304.2 · 1870 m off the road
- Rocky Ridge Dinerrestaurantkm 392.9 · 324 m off the road
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 Musgrave Harbour
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- Offer Wadham Lighthouselighthouse1.9 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Deadman's Bay beachstop26 km
A beach of fine beige sand a few minutes from Lumsden, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Lumsden Beachstop35 km
The beach the province's tourism site calls the most popular on the Kittiwake Coast.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Windmill Bight Park Reservestop39 km
Three kilometres from Lumsden off Route 330.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Freelsstop45 km
A beach on a coast BirdLife International has designated an Important Bird Area for nesting seabirds, among them common eiders, murres, razorbills and Arctic terns, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Newtown Boardwalk Walktrail · 3.4 km walk · easy49 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - New-Wes-Valleytown57 kmDirections →
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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 303
- Longest stretch without one
- 127 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 394 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Musgrave Harbour
- 93.4 km
- by road, at Gander
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Deer Lake (km 0) and Gander (km 303). 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
- 0.4 km
- Burt's Drive (0.42 km, 0.3 km from Musgrave Harbour)
- Mapped as paved
- 27%
- 99.4 km of 394.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 73%
- 263.9 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 394.8 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 Musgrave Harbour from Deer Lake airport?＋
394.8 km from the terminal to Musgrave Harbour.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1 and 330. 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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