Gander International Airport (YQX) → Clarenville
Gander International Airport (YQX) to Clarenville
- Drive time
- 1h 57m
- Distance
- 147.3 km
Conservative model estimate, Gander International Airport (YQX) to Clarenville — 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, Gander International Airport (YQX) to Clarenville, checked 2026-09-05, re-checked 2026-09-21.
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The terminal side — parking, arrivals, ground transport — is the airport's own information: Gander International Airport →
From Gander this is a short run: Route 330 south out of the airport onto the Trans-Canada, then the Trans-Canada the rest of the way to Clarenville. At 117 minutes it is the closest of the three airport doors — St. John’s is not far behind at about 148, and Deer Lake is a different order of drive entirely.
What breaks the drive up sits at the Gander end rather than along it: the mapped ruins of the airport settlement that stood before Gander’s present townsite was built, a memorial to the Arrow Air crash, and a viewpoint on the Trans-Canada a little under a third of the way along. After that it is highway.
Faded on the map: the other measured drives from Gander International into this same region, each its own page — White Hills Resort (2h), Terra Nova National Park Visitor Centre (1h 3m). Where a faded line leaves the solid one is where that drive forks from this one.
Worth stopping for
Gander Old Town SiteDetour
OpenStreetMap maps this as historic ruins, and the name carries the rest: the airport settlement that stood beside the runways before the present townsite existed. The Town of Gander's own history page states that after the war the airport reverted to civilian control, efforts began to move residents a safe distance from the runways, construction began in the 1950s on the present townsite, and the municipality was incorporated in 1958 and the airport settlement was abandoned. This is a detour taken at the very start of the drive rather than a stop along it.
Stopping here adds about 6 min and 3.6 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeSilent Witnesses MemorialDetour
A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, near the start of this drive. The province's own tourism listing calls it a tranquil park, unveiled in 1990, dedicated to the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of December 12, 1985. It describes an American soldier standing atop a massive rock holding the hands of a civilian boy and girl, each child holding an olive branch for the peacekeeping mission of the Screaming Eagles in the Sinai, who were going home for Christmas; the trio look to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where a similar statue looks back. That listing also carries a season for the site — those dates are the province's to state, not this page's.
Stopping here adds about 8 min and 2.4 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeJoey's Lookout
A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada, a little under a third of the way along and effectively on the road. OpenStreetMap records the name and the fact that it is a viewpoint, and nothing else — it is easy to miss at highway speed.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to the drive.
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When you get to Clarenville
- Where to eat in Clarenville → — 38 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Clarenville Events Centre → — the venue here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 3, Glowertown km 68, Port Blandford km 116
- Longest stretch without one
- 65 km
- Gander → Glowertown, of 147 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Clarenville
- 29.3 km
- 23 min by road, at Goobies
NL Hydro lists an ultra-fast site coming in 2026 at Gander (km 2) and Clarenville (km 146) — 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
- 29%
- 39.6 km of 147.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 71%
- 95.1 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
47 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 38.6 km — after Happy Adventure Cafe, until Snack shack.. That is the figure worth planning around.
- The Newfoundland Tea Co. Restaurant & Shoprestaurantkm 1.8 · 782 m off the road
- Rosie's Restaurant & Bakeryrestaurantkm 1.8 · 898 m off the road
- Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 2 · 661 m off the road
- Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 2 · 619 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 2 · 248 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 2
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 2
- Ches's Fish & Chipsrestaurantkm 2 · 518 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 2 · 1553 m off the road
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 2 · 894 m off the road
- Wing 'n Itrestaurantkm 2 · 704 m off the road
- The Shawarma Stationrestaurantkm 2 · 349 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2 · 418 m off the road
- Louis Geesfast foodkm 2 · 743 m off the road
- Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 2 · 676 m off the road
- New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 2 · 668 m off the road
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 2 · 664 m off the road
- East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 2 · 665 m off the road
- Grecofast foodkm 2 · 672 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2 · 290 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 2.1 · 1526 m off the road
- Mystic Roomrestaurantkm 2.1 · 417 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 2.2 · 276 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 2.2 · 1377 m off the road
- Swiss Chaletrestaurantkm 2.2
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 2.2
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2.4 · 1265 m off the road
- DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 2.5 · 1054 m off the road
- 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
- Don Cherry's Sports Bar & Grillrestaurantkm 144.4
- Rod's Restaurantrestaurantkm 144.5 · 235 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 144.5 · 330 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 144.5 · 935 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 144.5 · 331 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 144.9
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 144.9
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 144.9
- Tim Hortonscafékm 145
- KFCfast foodkm 145
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 145
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 145.8 · 160 m off the road
- Brownings Pubpubkm 145.8 · 309 m off the road
- Flannigans Pubpubkm 145.8 · 227 m off the road
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 about twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Almost the whole of this drive is two-lane highway — Route 330 out of Gander, then the Trans-Canada — with long unlit stretches between communities, so an evening arrival at the airport is worth planning around.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 330 out of the airport is short, and the rest of this drive is the Trans-Canada, the main road across the island, so it is paved, well travelled and well maintained. It still runs through open country between communities and sees real winter weather. Check conditions before leaving the airport.
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 Gander International Airport Authority 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 Authority's transport page. That is an absence read off the page on 2026-09-15, not an assumption — but it is the Authority's page, not a licensing register, so it says what the airport lists rather than what is legal.
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 a scheduled coach service across Newfoundland. The Airport Authority says a wheelchair-accessible bus needs 48 hours' notice.
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.
Gander International Airport Authority, 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 far is Clarenville from Gander Airport?＋
About 147 km — roughly 1 hour 57 minutes. You take Route 330 south out of the airport to the Trans-Canada Highway (Route 1), then follow the Trans-Canada the rest of the way to Clarenville.
Should I fly into St. John's, Gander or Deer Lake for Clarenville?＋
For Clarenville, Gander is the closest of the three — about 117 minutes. St. John's is not far behind at around 148 minutes, so it is a reasonable choice if your trip already has you landing there or starting on the Avalon Peninsula. Deer Lake is a different order of drive, at around 345 minutes, 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, so it is well travelled. It is mostly two-lane highway between communities, which is why the moose note above is the one thing worth planning around, especially on an evening arrival.
Is there anywhere worth stopping on the way?＋
Three spots, and all of them sit at the Gander end. The Gander Old Town Site is mapped as the ruins of the airport settlement that stood before the present townsite was built. The Silent Witnesses Memorial marks the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of December 12, 1985. Joey's Lookout is a mapped viewpoint effectively on the Trans-Canada. Past those, the drive is highway.
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