Deer Lake Airport (YDF) to Triton and Green Bay's islands
Icebergs: book late May and early June →
In season this is Good: Brighton, minutes past Triton, is where CBC covered Green Bay's some-summers ice (source).
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- Distance
- 174.7 km
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Places to stay in Triton
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A place listed in Triton shows on 10 pages here: 7 drives to Triton, 1 arena or stage and 2 trails nearby.
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Stop 1: Triton Sperm Whale Pavilion
Triton's museum, built around a sperm whale, and the reason many people drive Route 380.
Directions →Show on map: Triton Sperm Whale Pavilion ↑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 380 →Whole road: 2 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 26 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 5% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 2, 2026, terminal to town centre. 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 →
175 km. Deer Lake airport to Triton: the Trans-Canada, then Route 380 from South Brook.
The road crosses the water. Past South Brook, Route 380 hops by causeway from the mainland to Pilley’s Island, then on to Triton, with Green Bay on both sides.
Why people come. Triton’s museum is a pavilion built around a sperm whale. Brighton, just further on, is where in a good summer the ice comes to Green Bay.
When you get to Triton
- Where to eat near Triton → 6 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Triton Arena → — the venue here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at Triton, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:26 am | 8:03 am | 4:39 pm | 5:15 pm |
| Feb | 6:49 am | 7:22 am | 5:30 pm | 6:03 pm |
| Mar | 6:55 am | 7:27 am | 7:16 pm | 7:48 pm |
| Apr | 5:47 am | 6:21 am | 8:03 pm | 8:37 pm |
| May | 4:49 am | 5:28 am | 8:48 pm | 9:27 pm |
| Jun | 4:21 am | 5:04 am | 9:20 pm | 10:04 pm |
| Jul | 4:40 am | 5:21 am | 9:15 pm | 9:56 pm |
| Aug | 5:27 am | 6:02 am | 8:31 pm | 9:07 pm |
| Sep | 6:15 am | 6:47 am | 7:27 pm | 7:59 pm |
| Oct | 7:00 am | 7:32 am | 6:23 pm | 6:55 pm |
| Nov | 6:48 am | 7:23 am | 4:31 pm | 5:06 pm |
| Dec | 7:24 am | 8:02 am | 4:13 pm | 4:51 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 Triton →
1 place to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 126.6 km, after Tim Horton, until Eddies Restaurant.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Eddies Restaurantrestaurantkm 129.1 · 691 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.
Short drives from Triton
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- Triton Sperm Whale Pavilionstop3.9 km
A 13-metre sperm whale skeleton, seen on a guided tour, and the story of a 12-foot giant squid that washed up in Badger Bay, per the province's tourism site.
- Pilley's Island Lookout Trailtrail · 4.6 km out and back · easy10 km
- Pilley's Islandstop10 km
Waterfront views and the Pilley's Island Heritage Museum, per the province's tourism site.
- Pilley's Island ferry terminaltown19 km
- Trail to Morry's Covetrail · 3.6 km walk · easy21 km
- Beaver Pond RV Parkstop25 km
An RV campground by its pond.
Distances by road from Triton, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
More about this drive
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
- by road, at South Brook
The chargers
Deer Lake km 3 of the drive, 1.4 km off it
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) · WazeSouth Brook km 129 of the drive, 0.7 km off it
Eddie’s Restaurant 48 Aspen St, South Brook, NL A0J 1S0
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: 69% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 31%
- 54.1 km of 173.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 69%
- 118.5 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.
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.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Check before you leave the Trans-Canada at South Brook. Route 380 is a dead-end spur into the bay.
511nl.ca →
Onward from Triton
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
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
Should I fly into Deer Lake or Gander for Triton?＋
Deer Lake, by 49 km: 175 km against 224 km from Gander. The Route 380 turn is at South Brook, on the western half of the Trans-Canada.
What is the drive actually like?＋
Trans-Canada east to South Brook, then Route 380 north. In the second half the road hops by causeway from the mainland across Pilley's Island to Triton Island, with Green Bay on both sides. It is a dead end.
Is this an iceberg drive?＋
Some summers. CBC covered a berg at Brighton, just past Triton, with humpbacks 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'. Check Iceberg Finder for the live picture.
How does this relate to the Long Island ferry?＋
Same road. Route 380 leads to the Pilley's Island wharf for the Long Island crossing. The YDF to Long Island page covers the boat; this one carries on across the causeway.
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title="Driving route: Deer Lake Regional Airport (YDF) to Triton"></iframe>?lat=&lon=&label= to the URL to pin your own property on the map.Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on September 30, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/180061286 — passenger terminal. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/1656200258 — Triton place node. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms