Gander International Airport (YQX) → Greenspond
Gander Airport (YQX) to Greenspond
- Drive time
- 2h 6m
- Distance
- 124.3 km
Conservative model estimate, Gander International Airport (YQX) to Greenspond — 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 the island, checked 2026-09-03.
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The terminal side — parking, arrivals, ground transport — is the airport's own information: Gander International Airport →
Greenspond is the kind of place this site exists to measure the way to: an island outport older than almost anything else on the coast, joined to Route 320 by a causeway, with its 19th-century courthouse kept as a museum and Puffin Island’s lighthouse standing offshore. The drive is honest Newfoundland arithmetic — 2h06, most of it easy Trans-Canada, the reward packed entirely into the last few kilometres when the road runs out of mainland and keeps going anyway.
The claims about Greenspond’s age belong to the town and its historians, so the FAQ frames them as tellings rather than measurements. What is measured is the way there — and it is the same corridor that serves the whole northeast: this page pairs naturally with New-Wes-Valley and the Barbour coast one bay north, and with Musgrave Harbour’s sand the other way along Route 330.
Faded on the map: the other measured drives from Gander International into this same region, each its own page — New-Wes-Valley (1h 56m), Dover (1h 15m), Burnside ferry terminal (1h 19m), Salvage (1h 21m). Where a faded line leaves the solid one is where that drive forks from this one.
Worth stopping for
Joey's Lookout (Gambo)
The mapped viewpoint above Joey Smallwood's hometown, right off the highway — the standard first stretch of every drive down this side of the island.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to the drive.
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A pond-side stop beside the Trans-Canada that OpenStreetMap still carries under its old provincial-park name — the province no longer lists it, and whoever operates the grounds now owns that story. The pond and the leg-stretch are real either way.
Stopping here adds about 3 min and 0.7 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeGreenspond Courthouse
Mapped as a museum: the island's 19th-century courthouse, kept as the town's heritage anchor. On the island itself — by the time you reach it, the drive has already become a walk.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.5 km to the drive.
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What has been recorded near here
Species reported within 50 km of Greenspond and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, June, August2,138 reports on record
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, August, June1,204 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June422 reports on record
- Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in July, May, October66 reports on record
- Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in August, June, July11 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 Greenspond
- Where to eat in Greenspond → — 1 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 3
- Longest stretch without one
- 121 km
- Gander → Greenspond, of 124 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Greenspond
- 106.5 km
- 1h 51m by road, at Glowertown
NL Hydro lists an ultra-fast site coming in 2026 at Gander (km 2) — 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
- 0.4 km
- Cemetary Road (0.07 km, 0 km from Greenspond); Cemetery Road (0.3 km, 0.2 km from Greenspond)
- Mapped as paved
- 23%
- 26.4 km of 124.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 77%
- 87.8 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
36 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 36.1 km — after Family Pizza, until Washed Ashore. 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 48.7
- Washed Ashorecafékm 84.8
- Aunt Hannah's Cafe and Gallerycafékm 89.3
- Sunset Grillrestaurantkm 89.5
- Silver Fox Loungecafékm 90.1
- Ida's placecafékm 123 · 335 m off the road
- Dykes Marinefast foodkm 123.6 · 307 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 that the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Route 320 north of the Trans-Canada is long, low and wooded.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The causeway is the island's one road link — in wind and winter, check before committing to the coast.
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
Should I fly into Gander or Deer Lake for Greenspond?＋
Gander: about 2h06 against well over five hours from Deer Lake. The whole Route 320 coast is YQX's territory.
What is Greenspond?＋
An island — one of the oldest continuously inhabited outports on this coast, settled in the 1690s by most accounts, and joined to the mainland by a causeway only in living memory. The town's own heritage tellings carry the specifics; what this page can certify is the road that gets you to them.
What is the drive actually like?＋
Trans-Canada east past Gambo, Route 320 north through Indian Bay country, then the coast opens: the last kilometres run the shore to the causeway, and the road ends among wharves and painted houses on an island that was doing this two and a half centuries before the airport existed.
Is there a lighthouse?＋
Offshore, yes — Puffin Island Lighthouse is mapped just off Greenspond's harbour, on its own island. You view it from the shore; no road reaches it, and this page will not pretend one does.
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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