Gander International Airport (YQX) → Grand Falls-Windsor
Gander Airport (YQX) to Grand Falls-Windsor
- Distance
- 98.3 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
- Roads
- 1
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Faded lines are other drives from Gander International into this area: Botwood (92 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: The nordic trails east of townDetour
6.7 km of mapped cross-country ski trail in the woods off the Trans-Canada, just east of Grand Falls-Windsor. The club running them is not named on the map; ask locally about grooming and season. The weather strip above says whether there is snow.
Stopping here adds 1.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: The nordic trails east of town ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Joe Byrne Memorial StadiumDetour
Grand Falls-Windsor's indoor rink, just off the route (OpenStreetMap mislabels its sport as field hockey). Check with the town for public skate times and ice rentals.
Stopping here adds 2.7 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium ↑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.
Drive measured Aug 31, 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: Gander International Airport →
98.3 km. Gander airport straight down the Trans-Canada to Grand Falls-Windsor, the largest place between Gander and Deer Lake.
Why stop here. It is the nearest place to the middle of this region where you can assume a pharmacy, a garage and a staffed hotel, on a coast where most of what we cover is seasonal.
When you get to Grand Falls-Windsor
- Staying in Grand Falls-Windsor? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Grand Falls-Windsor → — 48 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Curling Rink, Grand Falls-Windsor → · Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium → — the venues here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Places to eat on the way
48 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 58.5 km — after Riverside Diner, until Irving.
All 48, in the order you pass them — open the list
- The Newfoundland Tea Co. Restaurant & Shoprestaurantkm 1.8 · 782 m off the road
- Rosie's Restaurant & Bakeryrestaurantkm 1.8 · 898 m off the road
- Swiss Chaletrestaurantkm 2 · 235 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 2 · 264 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 2.1
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 2.1
- Wing 'n Itrestaurantkm 2.1 · 703 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2.1 · 398 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 2.2 · 268 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 2.3
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2.3
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 2.4 · 816 m off the road
- Mystic Roomrestaurantkm 2.4 · 269 m off the road
- The Shawarma Stationrestaurantkm 2.4
- Ches's Fish & Chipsrestaurantkm 2.5
- Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 2.6
- Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 2.6
- Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 2.6
- New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 2.6
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 2.6
- East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 2.6
- Grecofast foodkm 2.6
- DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 2.6 · 958 m off the road
- Louis Geesfast foodkm 2.7 · 189 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 3.1 · 918 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 3.2 · 774 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 3.2 · 845 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 3.2 · 784 m off the road
- Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 25.1 · 598 m off the road
- Irvingrestaurantkm 83.6
- Tim Hortonscafékm 83.6
- Furey's Trailway Take-Outfast foodkm 83.7 · 423 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 96.7 · 488 m off the road
- Greco Pizzafast foodkm 96.8 · 383 m off the road
- Taiwanrestaurantkm 96.8 · 1240 m off the road
- Juniper Kitchen and Bistrorestaurantkm 96.8 · 1261 m off the road
- Sarah's Dinerrestaurantkm 96.9 · 1171 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 97.7 · 336 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 97.7 · 544 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 97.7 · 706 m off the road
- Wing'n Itrestaurantkm 97.7 · 1061 m off the road
- War Wick'srestaurantkm 97.7 · 1154 m off the road
- Tai Sun Restaurantrestaurantkm 97.7 · 222 m off the road
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairrestaurantkm 97.7 · 241 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 97.7
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 97.8 · 224 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 97.8 · 197 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 97.9 · 787 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-09-12. How we measure · Add a missing place
New place to eat, or one that's missing? This list comes from OpenStreetMap, so nobody can pay to be on it. Add it to the map yourself (about twenty minutes on a phone), or email us the details and we'll put it on the map.
Short drives from Grand Falls-Windsor
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- Corduroy Brook Nature Reservestop2.7 km
A network of walking trails and boardwalks along Corduroy Brook, mapped inside Grand Falls-Windsor itself.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Grand Falls-Windsortown3.2 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Loggers' Life Provincial Museumstop4.2 km
A reconstructed 1920s logging camp on the edge of Grand Falls-Windsor, mapped right beside the driven line.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Bishop’s Falls Heritage Centrestop16 km
A small heritage centre in Bishop's Falls, just off the Trans-Canada.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Peter's River Hiking Trailtrail · 5 km walk · easy31 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Botwoodtown34 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Point Leamingtonstop60 km
The working town halfway up the peninsula.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Lewisportetown66 kmDirections →
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More, up to 67 km (1)
- Woolfrey's Pond Lookoutstop67 km
The town's pondside park at the edge of Lewisporte, with a lookout and boardwalk loops above the water.
Directions →Other map apps
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Distances by road, measured on OpenStreetMap October 16, 2026, from where this route ends. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 3, Bishop’s Falls km 86
- Longest stretch without one
- 83 km
- Gander → Bishop’s Falls, of 98 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Grand Falls-Windsor
- 12.6 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-10): Gander (km 3). Not counted until it opens.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-10. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 38%
- 30.7 km of 98.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 62%
- 50.7 km: surface not recorded
Why it matters: 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. 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. 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. This is Trans-Canada the whole way, at highway speed for the full 98 km.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Entirely Trans-Canada, the first road cleared and the last closed. Check conditions before you leave.
Check it now →
Renting a car? Book the car when you book the flight.
Summer rentals sell out, says NL Tourism, and in June 2026 CTV reported St. John's airport agencies booked for nearly all of summer.
Both read 2026-10-07.
Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who Gander International Airport Authority lists at the door. Fares change, so we link to them instead.
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, Grand Falls-Windsor back to Gander is the same distance: 99 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 people actually ask
How far is the drive from Gander Airport to Grand Falls-Windsor?＋
98.3 km, entirely on the Trans-Canada Highway. One road, no turns.
Why would I go there rather than the coast?＋
It is the largest town between Gander and Deer Lake, where you can assume things are open. Arriving late, travelling off-season, or needing a pharmacy, a garage or a staffed hotel, this is the nearest sure bet.
Should I fly into Gander or Deer Lake?＋
Gander: 98 km against 211 km from Deer Lake.
Is it a base for the coast?＋
It can be, though it is inland and everything scenic is north of it. Lewisporte is 66 km from Grand Falls-Windsor and closer to the water; the bases guide compares the coastal options. Pick Grand Falls-Windsor when services matter more than views.
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