Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) → Triton
Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Triton and Green Bay's islands
- Drive time
- 2h 24m
- Distance
- 173.8 km
Conservative model estimate, Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Triton — 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, terminal door to town centre, checked 2026-09-02.
In season: 🧊 Good — worth going for icebergs in season — Brighton, minutes past Triton, is where CBC covered Green Bay's some-summers ice (source). The odds →
Drive it with your own nav:Organic Maps →OsmAnd →Apple →Google →Waze →The first two run on OpenStreetMap and don't track you — the same map this site is built from.
Or take the whole route with you: Download the GPX → — the measured drive plus every stop as a waypoint, for Organic Maps, OsmAnd or any Garmin, no account and no signal needed once it's on the device.
No one has sent a recording of this drive yet.Be the first — send the track →
The terminal side — parking, arrivals, ground transport — is the airport's own information: Deer Lake Regional Airport →
Route 380 is the drive where the map starts telling the truth about Green Bay: past South Brook the road stops following the shore and starts crossing the water — mainland to Pilley’s Island, Pilley’s to Triton, each hop a causeway with the bay pressing both shoulders.
Triton is the end of the pavement’s argument, and its museum is honest about the local headline: a pavilion built around a sperm whale. Brighton sits minutes further on — the cove where, in a good summer, the ice comes to Green Bay instead of the other way around.
Faded on the map: the other measured drives from Deer Lake Regional into this same region, each its own page — Pilley's Island ferry terminal (2h 22m), King's Point (1h 45m), Botwood (3h 9m), La Scie (3h 1m). Where a faded line leaves the solid one is where that drive forks from this one.
Worth stopping for
What has been recorded near here
Species reported within 50 km of Triton and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, June50 reports on record
- Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in September, July, October42 reports on record
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, June, August23 reports on record
- Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in July, June, August5 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in June, October5 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 Triton
- Where to eat in Triton → — 6 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Deer Lake km 3, South Brook km 129
- Longest stretch without one
- 126 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 173 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Triton
- 45 km
- 46 min by road, at South Brook
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
- 31%
- 54.1 km of 173.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 69%
- 118.5 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 2026-09-06. 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
5 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 126.6 km — after Tim Horton, until Eddies Restaurant. That is the figure worth planning around.
- 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
- Eddies Restaurantrestaurantkm 129.1 · 691 m off the road
- Fudge's Restrauntrestaurantkm 170.1
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 that the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Route 380's causeway country is dark and empty after the junction towns.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Check before you leave the Trans-Canada at South Brook — 380 is a spur into the bay, not a through road.
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
Should I fly into Deer Lake or Gander for Triton?＋
Deer Lake, by about forty minutes: 2h24 against roughly 3h03 from Gander. The Route 380 turn comes at South Brook on the western half of the Trans-Canada, and that decides it.
What is the drive actually like?＋
Trans-Canada east to South Brook, then Route 380 north — and the second half is the point: the road hops from the mainland across Pilley's Island and onto Triton Island by causeway, with Green Bay on both sides of you. It ends in the water; nothing about it is a through road.
Is this an iceberg drive?＋
Some summers, genuinely — this is the same Green Bay water where CBC covered a berg at Brighton, minutes past Triton, with humpbacks in the same week. It is not one of the province's named viewing spots, so the badge on this page says 'worth going', not 'go' — and the live picture is always Iceberg Finder's job, not ours.
How does this relate to the Long Island ferry?＋
Same road. Route 380 is how you reach the Pilley's Island wharf for the Long Island crossing — the YDF to Long Island page on this site covers the boat; this one carries on across the causeway instead.
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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