Gander International Airport (YQX) to Clarenville
- Distance
- 147.3 km
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Places to stay in Clarenville
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Stop 1: Gander Old Town SiteDetour
OpenStreetMap maps this as historic ruins: the airport settlement that stood beside the runways before the present townsite. The Town of Gander says that after the war the airport went back to civilian control and residents were moved a safe distance from the runways. Work on the present townsite began in the 1950s; the town was incorporated in 1958 and the old settlement abandoned. It is a detour at the very start of the drive.
Stopping here adds 3.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Gander Old Town Site ↑Other map apps
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A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, near the start of this drive, unveiled in 1990 for the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of 12 December 1985. An American soldier stands atop a rock holding the hands of a civilian boy and girl, each child carrying an olive branch for the Screaming Eagles' peacekeeping mission in the Sinai; they were going home for Christmas. The trio look toward Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where a similar statue looks back.
Stopping here adds 2.4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Silent Witnesses Memorial ↑Other map apps
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A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada, a little under a third of the way along, right on the road. OpenStreetMap records only the name and that it is a viewpoint. It is easy to miss at highway speed.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout ↑Other map apps
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⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
- Route 330 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 42 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 70% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 5, 2026, Gander International Airport (YQX) to Clarenville, checked 2026-09-05, re-. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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147 km. Gander airport to Clarenville: Route 330 south to the Trans-Canada, then the Trans-Canada the rest of the way. Gander is the closest of the three airports; St. John’s is not far behind at 191 km.
Stops are at the Gander end. The mapped ruins of the old airport settlement, a memorial to the Arrow Air crash, and a Trans-Canada viewpoint a little under a third of the way along. After that it is highway.
When you get to Clarenville
- Staying in Clarenville? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Clarenville → 38 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Clarenville Events Centre → — the venue here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at Clarenville, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:16 am | 7:51 am | 4:37 pm | 5:13 pm |
| Feb | 6:41 am | 7:13 am | 5:26 pm | 5:58 pm |
| Mar | 6:49 am | 7:20 am | 7:10 pm | 7:41 pm |
| Apr | 5:44 am | 6:16 am | 7:54 pm | 8:27 pm |
| May | 4:49 am | 5:26 am | 8:37 pm | 9:14 pm |
| Jun | 4:23 am | 5:04 am | 9:07 pm | 9:48 pm |
| Jul | 4:41 am | 5:20 am | 9:02 pm | 9:42 pm |
| Aug | 5:25 am | 5:59 am | 8:21 pm | 8:55 pm |
| Sep | 6:10 am | 6:41 am | 7:20 pm | 7:51 pm |
| Oct | 6:52 am | 7:24 am | 6:18 pm | 6:49 pm |
| Nov | 6:38 am | 7:12 am | 4:29 pm | 5:02 pm |
| Dec | 7:13 am | 7:49 am | 4:12 pm | 4:49 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 Gander → · where to eat near Clarenville →
5 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 38.6 km, after Happy Adventure Cafe.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Copper Kettle Restaurantrestaurantkm 31.9
- Family Pizzarestaurantkm 38.7 · 1870 m off the road
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 68.3
- Happy Adventure Cafecafékm 76.4 · 1229 m off the road
- Snack shack.fast foodkm 115 · 624 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 Clarenville
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- Shoal Harbour Trailtrail · 2.3 km loop · easy3.3 km
- White Hills Resorttown8.8 km
- Swift Currentstop51 km
The first community down Route 210, long a favourite for sport fishing, per the province's tourism site.
- Arnold's Covestop52 km
A side trip for the Drake Heritage House.
- Naked Man Beach Trailtrail · 4.4 km walk · moderate59 km
- Port Rextontown68 km
- Skerwink Trailtrail · 5.1 km loop · moderate70 km
- Trinitytown70 km
More, up to 84 km (7)
- Skerwink Trail lookoutstop70 km
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.
- Lockston Path Provincial Parkstop72 km
The peninsula's ParksNL campground.
- Chance Cove Coastal Trailstop74 km
A trail through the forest to the far end of Chance Cove Beach, then uphill along the coast to hidden sandy beaches, lookouts and sea caves, per the province's tourism site.
- Fort Point viewpointstop75 km
The mapped bench at Fort Point, across the harbour mouth, on the old gun battery's ground.
- Bellevue Beachstop76 km
A sandy beach on Route 201, in what the province's tourism site calls a popular summer cottage area.
- Mill Cove Lookout Trailtrail · 1.6 km out and back · easy81 km
- Malady Head Trailtrail · 3.8 km out and back · easy84 km
Distances by road from Clarenville, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
The trail
The line by each walk is its height, from start to finish.
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 3, Glovertown km 68, Port Blandford km 116
- Longest stretch without one
- 65 km
- Gander → Glovertown, of 147 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Clarenville
- 29.3 km
- by road, at Goobies
The chargers
Gander km 3 of the drive, 1 km off it
Orangestore 100 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) · WazeGlovertown km 68 of the drive
Splash N Putt Resort Traytown, NL A0G 4K0
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazePort Blandford km 116 of the drive
Rudy’s Restaurant & Gas Bar 42 Blackmore’s Road
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeGoobies 29.3 km from Clarenville by road
Irving Oil 162 Trans Canada
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
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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): Gander, a second site in the same town (km 2; CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · ultra-fast, up to 175 kW to one car, 350 kW where a site has two or more chargers) and Clarenville (km 146; 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: 71% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 29%
- 39.6 km of 147.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 71%
- 95.1 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
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MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is about twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Almost all of this drive is two-lane highway, Route 330 then the Trans-Canada, with long unlit stretches between communities. Plan around an evening arrival.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 330 is short; the rest is the Trans-Canada, paved, busy and well maintained. It still crosses open country and gets real winter weather. Check conditions before leaving the airport.
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 Gander, with numbers →Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who Gander International Airport Authority lists at the terminal.
No rideshare here.
The Airport Authority's transport page lists no rideshare service (checked 2026-09-15).
Taxi
Busy Bee Cabs, which the Airport Authority says runs a 24-hour service available curbside in the Domestic Arrivals area.
Coach
DRL Coachlines runs the island's one scheduled coach, once a day each way, between St. John's and the Marine Atlantic terminal at Port aux Basques. It stops at Gander Airport itself (the restaurant), and at Lewisporte, Grand Falls-Windsor, Deer Lake and Corner Brook among others. It reaches no island and no national park. Tickets are bought on the bus, cash only. The Airport Authority says a wheelchair-accessible bus needs 48 hours' notice. Times and fares are DRL's: drl-lr.com.
Limousine
Nobel Limousines, listed by the Airport Authority.
Avis, Budget, National and Enterprise are listed at the airport. The Authority says accessible vehicles with wheelchair accommodation or hand controls are limited and need 48 hours' notice.
Source: Gander International Airport Authority,2026-09-15. Check there for fares and times.
The drive back
Measured the other way, Clarenville back to Gander is the same distance: 147 km.
Plan back from your check-in time. Give the planner your flight time and it tells you when to set off.
How early to arrive depends on the carrier and the season: check Gander International Airport →
Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions
How far is Clarenville from Gander Airport?＋
About 147 km. Take Route 330 south out of the airport to the Trans-Canada Highway (Route 1), then follow it to Clarenville.
Should I fly into St. John's, Gander or Deer Lake for Clarenville?＋
Gander is the closest, at 147 km. St. John's is not far behind at 191 km, a fair choice if you are landing there anyway or starting on the Avalon Peninsula. Deer Lake is 450 km and only makes sense if Clarenville is a stop on a longer west-to-east trip.
Is the drive from Gander to Clarenville a hard one?＋
No. It is paved the whole way and it is the main road between the two. It is mostly two-lane highway, so plan around the moose note above, especially on an evening arrival.
Is there anywhere worth stopping on the way?＋
Three, all toward the Gander end. The Gander Old Town Site is mapped as the ruins of the airport settlement that came before the present townsite. The Silent Witnesses Memorial marks the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of December 12, 1985. Joey's Lookout is a mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada. Past those, the drive is highway.
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