Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Roddickton
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Roddickton
- Drive time
- 4h 37m
- Distance
- 351.5 km
Conservative model estimate, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Roddickton — 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, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Roddickton, checked 2026-09-07.
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The terminal side — parking, arrivals, ground transport — is the airport's own information: Deer Lake Regional Airport →
Four and a half hours from the terminal door, and the last ninety kilometres are the ones that decide the day. Route 430 carries you up the Northern Peninsula past Gros Morne and the Arches, which is the part of this drive people already know; then Routes 432 and 433 turn inland and east into Canada Bay, and the traffic and the shoulders thin out together.
What is measured here is the drive, not the town’s welcome. The figures above are OSRM’s free-flow estimate door to town centre, the two stops are on the line rather than detours worth arguing about, and everything that changes — the road, the weather, whether a moose is standing in it — is linked rather than copied, because those are facts about today and this page is not.
Worth stopping for
Gros Morne Visitor Information Centre
The park's front door, under an hour in — this drive spends its first stretch inside Gros Morne, and the centre is where the park explains itself.
Stopping here adds about 2 min and 0.8 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeThe Arches Provincial Park
Sea-carved limestone arches standing in the surf right beside Route 430 — the map holds the park as a reserve and the rock formation by name. A ten-minute leg-stretch that photographs like an hour; ParksNL lists it as day use, and the sea decides how close you stand.
Stopping here adds about 0 min and 0 km to the drive.
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What has been recorded near here
Species reported within 50 km of Roddickton and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.
- Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in July, June, August208 reports on record
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in August, July, September142 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in August, September, July105 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in June, July, October18 reports on record
- Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in June, July, August7 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 Roddickton
- Where to eat in Roddickton → — 1 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Deer Lake km 4, Rocky Harbour km 71, Cow Head km 116, Roddickton km 350
- Longest stretch without one
- 234 km
- Cow Head → Roddickton, of 351 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Roddickton
- at Roddickton
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
- 51%
- 176 km of 351.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 49%
- 168.3 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 2026-09-08. 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
21 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 137 km — after Pizza Delight, until Lumberjacks. That is the figure worth planning around.
- Tim Hortonscafékm 4.1 · 1623 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 4.1 · 508 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 4.1 · 1584 m off the road
- Big Stop Restaurantrestaurantkm 4.1 · 349 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 4.1 · 1839 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 4.1 · 1744 m off the road
- Tim Hortonfast foodkm 4.1 · 393 m off the road
- Wingn' itrestaurantkm 4.2 · 1148 m off the road
- Funland Resortrestaurantkm 11.1 · 948 m off the road
- Fisherman's Landingrestaurantkm 70.7 · 577 m off the road
- Earle‘srestaurantkm 70.7 · 1940 m off the road
- SunSet Cafécafékm 70.7 · 635 m off the road
- Jackie‘sfast foodkm 70.7 · 1648 m off the road
- Anchor Pubpubkm 70.7 · 566 m off the road
- Oceansrestaurantkm 70.7 · 554 m off the road
- Buoy & Arrowrestaurantkm 70.7 · 348 m off the road
- Treasure Box Crafts & Cafecafékm 70.7 · 713 m off the road
- Whale‘s Back Grub Hubrestaurantkm 89.9
- C&P Take-Outfast foodkm 212
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 212.2
- Lumberjacksrestaurantkm 349.2
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 the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is a four-and-a-half-hour drive that ends on two lightly travelled routes with no lighting and few places to pull over — leaving Deer Lake in the afternoon puts you on the worst of it in the dark. Start early or break it.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 430 runs the length of the Northern Peninsula before Routes 432 and 433 turn inland to Canada Bay, and there is no way around a closure on the last 90 km. Check the far end of the drive before you commit to it, not just the weather in Deer Lake.
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
How long is the drive from Deer Lake?＋
351.5 km and about 4 hours 37 minutes, measured terminal door to town centre on the OSRM driving profile — a free-flow estimate with no stops, no weather and no moose in it. Both stops on this page are effectively on the line, adding two minutes between them.
Can it be done as a day trip from Deer Lake?＋
Only as a long one. Out and back is over nine hours of driving before you have stopped anywhere, which on these roads means finishing in the dark — the exact condition the moose warning above is about. Most people arriving at Deer Lake for this stay somewhere on the Northern Peninsula instead of turning around.
Is there anywhere to charge an electric car?＋
Roddickton has one of NL Hydro's fast-charging sites, listed at M&B Diner on Major Street. It is the reason this drive was measured at all: the town was one of only two on the island west of Clarenville with a fast charger and no measured drive reaching it. Every site and every route that passes one is compared on the electric page.
Which airport should I fly into?＋
Deer Lake, by a wide margin — it is the western door and this drive starts there. Gander is roughly twice as far by road and no route to this town is measured from it, so this page prices the drive it can stand behind rather than quoting a figure for one it has not driven.
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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