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Gander Airport (YQX) to Greenspond

Distance
124.3 km
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Lookout view over Greenspond's houses, rocky islands and open sea.
Lookout view over Greenspond's houses, rocky islands and open sea.Photo: Johnathan Nightingale · source · CC BY-SA 3.0

Places to stay in Greenspond

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Driving route from Gander International Airport (YQX) to Greenspond: 124.3 km by road, via Routes 330 · 1 · 320.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line measured along OpenStreetMap's roads.
  1. Stop 1: Joey's Lookout (Gambo)

    The viewpoint above Joey Smallwood's hometown, right off the highway, on every drive down this side of the island.

    Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Joey's Lookout (Gambo) ↑
  2. Stop 2: Square Pond

    A pond-side stop beside the Trans-Canada. OpenStreetMap still uses its old provincial-park name; the province no longer lists it. A place to stretch your legs.

    Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.

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  3. Stop 3: Greenspond Courthouse

    Mapped as a museum: the island's 19th-century courthouse, kept as a heritage site. It is on the island itself.

    Stopping here adds 0.5 km to the drive.

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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.
  • Route 320 →Whole road: 6 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 39 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 72% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Electric: plan 242 km on a charge ↓

Drive measured Sep 3, 2026, terminal to the island. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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124 km. Gander airport to Greenspond: mostly easy Trans-Canada, then Route 320 to the causeway onto the island.

Why people come. An old island outport, with its 19th-century courthouse kept as a museum and Puffin Island’s lighthouse offshore.

Pair it with New-Wes-Valley one bay north, or Musgrave Harbour’s sand beyond it along Route 330.

When you get to Greenspond

Sunrise and sunset at Greenspond, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:17 am7:53 am4:32 pm5:09 pm
Feb6:41 am7:13 am5:23 pm5:56 pm
Mar6:47 am7:19 am7:08 pm7:40 pm
Apr5:40 am6:13 am7:54 pm8:28 pm
May4:43 am5:22 am8:38 pm9:16 pm
Jun4:15 am4:58 am9:10 pm9:52 pm
Jul4:34 am5:15 am9:04 pm9:45 pm
Aug5:20 am5:55 am8:22 pm8:57 pm
Sep6:07 am6:39 am7:19 pm7:51 pm
Oct6:51 am7:23 am6:15 pm6:47 pm
Nov6:39 am7:13 am4:24 pm4:59 pm
Dec7:14 am7:52 am4:07 pm4:44 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 Greenspond →

6 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 36.1 km, after Family Pizza.

Every one of them, in the order you pass them
  • 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

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 Greenspond

An easy day out from GreenspondNewtown Boardwalk Walk 38 km awayA walk: 3.4 km walk · easyDirections from where your phone is now:
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Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Greenspond. Each one's page has directions.

  • Newtown Boardwalk Walktrail · 3.4 km walk · easy38 km
  • Three kilometres from Lumsden off Route 330.

  • Cape Freelsstop45 km

    A beach on a coast BirdLife International has designated an Important Bird Area for nesting seabirds, among them common eiders, murres, razorbills and Arctic terns, per the province's tourism site.

  • Lumsden Beachstop48 km

    The beach the province's tourism site calls the most popular on the Kittiwake Coast.

  • A beach of fine beige sand a few minutes from Lumsden, per the province's tourism site.

Distances by road from Greenspond, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

What has been recorded near here

Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Greenspond, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.

  • Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, August, September33 reports on record

Reports, not counts: busy harbours report more. No sighting is promised, and the list covers only the species we look up. Source: GBIF, the international record of wildlife sightings, checked 2026-10-07.

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
by road, at Glovertown

No fast charger at Greenspond. From the last fast charger, in Gander, it is 121 km there and the same back: plan on about 242 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Glovertown, 106.5 km from Greenspond by road, off this drive's own road.

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

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  • Glovertown 106.5 km from Greenspond by road

    Splash N Putt Resort Traytown, NL A0G 4K0

    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). 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

Every route compared →NL Hydro: plan your road trip →

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: 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 320 north of the Trans-Canada is long, low and wooded.

    gov.nl.ca →
  • Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April

    The causeway is the island's one road link. In wind and winter, check before you head for the coast.

    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.

    (709) 256-1444

  • 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.

    (888) 263-1852

  • Limousine

    Nobel Limousines, listed by the Airport Authority.

    (709) 535-2457

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, Greenspond back to Gander is the same distance: 124 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

Should I fly into Gander or Deer Lake for Greenspond?+

Gander: 124 km against 427 km from Deer Lake. Gander is the airport for the whole Route 320 coast.

What is Greenspond?+

An island outport, one of the oldest continuously inhabited on this coast. Most accounts say it was settled in the 1690s. A causeway joined it to the mainland only in living memory.

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 settled two and a half centuries before the airport existed.

Is there a lighthouse?+

Offshore, yes. Puffin Island Lighthouse is mapped on its own island just off Greenspond's harbour. You view it from the shore; no road reaches it.

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Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on September 3, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/154350645 — passenger terminal. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/107363353 — Greenspond place node. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms