Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Port Rexton
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Port Rexton
- Distance
- 502 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Faded lines are other drives from Deer Lake Regional into this area: Trinity (504 km), Cape Bonavista Lighthouse (551 km), Salvage (400 km), Burnside ferry terminal (397 km), Terra Nova National Park Visitor Centre (381 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.
Directions →Show on map: Indian River ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Loggers' Life Provincial Museum
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.
Directions →Show on map: Loggers' Life Provincial Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: North Atlantic Aviation Museum
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. Hours are linked below.
Directions →Show on map: North Atlantic Aviation Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Square Pond
A pond-side stop beside the Trans-Canada. OpenStreetMap still uses its old provincial-park name; the province no longer lists it. A place to stretch your legs.
Directions →Show on map: Square Pond ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Joey's Lookout
A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada east of Gander, effectively on the road. OpenStreetMap records only the name and that it is a viewpoint. It is easy to miss at highway speed.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Skerwink Trail lookoutDetour
A lookout on the Skerwink Trail at Port Rexton, which Travel + Leisure listed among the 25 best hikes in North America and Europe, per the province's tourism site. The trail passes a sea stack called the Music Box; the province names kittiwakes, gannets and whales among what you can see from it.
Stopping here adds 4.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Skerwink Trail lookout ↑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 230 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 45 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 4% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 22, 2026, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Port Rexton. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Airport info: Deer Lake Regional Airport →
Port Rexton is the town of the Skerwink Trail, which Travel + Leisure listed among the 25 best hikes in North America and Europe, as the province’s tourism site notes. The drive is 502 km from Deer Lake airport.
The trail is a 5.1 km loop past sea stacks: the Skerwink Trail page has the climb and the map. Trinity is a short drive on.
When you get to Port Rexton
- Staying in Port Rexton? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Port Rexton → — 11 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
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.
Short drives from Port Rexton
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeOr any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Port Rexton.
- Skerwink Trailtrail · 5.1 km loop · moderate1.6 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Lockston Path Provincial Parkstop6.9 km
The peninsula's ParksNL campground, just off Route 236 near Port Rexton, and the campground on this route.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Trinitytown9.1 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Fort Point viewpointstop14 km
The mapped bench at Fort Point, across the harbour mouth, on the old gun battery's ground.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Random Passagestop21 km
The set of the TV miniseries Random Passage at New Bonaventure, a replica of an early 1800s fishing village, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Green Island (Catalina) Lighthouselighthouse29 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze Opened at Elliston in June 2014, a hundred years after the disaster it exists for.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Ryan Premises National Historic Sitestop43 km
The Parks Canada site on Bonavista's waterfront tells five centuries of the salt-fish trade in the merchant premises where it ran.
Directions →Other map apps
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More, up to 50 km (5)
- Mathew (ship) Replicamuseum44 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mockbeggar Plantationstop45 km
A provincial historic site and the legacy of F.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Elliston Puffin Viewing Pointstop45 km
The viewpoint facing the Elliston puffin colony, close enough to watch from land in season.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Dungeon Provincial Parkstop46 km
A ParksNL day-use park around a collapsed sea cave, with two ocean windows in a sheep pasture, just before the cape.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Bonavista Lighthousetown50 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 305, Glowertown km 371, Port Blandford km 418, Port Rexton km 500
- Longest stretch without one
- 127 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 501 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Port Rexton
- at Port Rexton
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Deer Lake (km 0) and Gander (km 305). 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
- 0.5 km
- Church Road (0.49 km, 0.3 km from Port Rexton)
- Mapped as paved
- 33%
- 150.2 km of 502 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 67%
- 306.4 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 2026-10-22. 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 502 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 change fast on this coast. 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 Port Rexton from Deer Lake airport?＋
502.0 km by road from the terminal to Port Rexton.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1 and 230. Your maps app has the turns.
Where does the Skerwink Trail start?＋
On Main Road in Port Rexton. The trail is a 5.1 km loop by our map: 4.7 km of path and 0.4 km back by road.
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