Gander Airport (YQX) to Harbour Breton
- ⛽ Route 360 has 129 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Electric: plan 554 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 280.2 km
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Places to stay in Harbour Breton
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Stop 1: North Atlantic Aviation Museum
Gander's aviation museum, close to the terminal. On a drive this long, an hour here first makes a good start. Check hours with the museum.
Stopping here adds 1.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: North Atlantic Aviation Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Notre Dame Provincial Park
The ParksNL park about 30 km before the Route 360 turn, and the campground on this route: a last night under trees before the long empty middle. Check ParksNL for season and sites.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Notre Dame Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Upper Falls Lookout
The Bay d'Espoir Highway turn at Bishop's Falls is another 21.9 km along the road, so this is the last easy stop before Route 360 commits to the interior. It is the upper waterfall lookout on the Eel Brook Trail, a short walk past Eel Brook's falls: AllTrails lists it at about 1.3 miles out and back, with Lower Falls Lookout as the other viewpoint.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Upper Falls Lookout ↑Other map apps
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⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
- Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 360 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 129 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 3, 2026, terminal to town. 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 →
280 km. Gander airport to Harbour Breton: the Trans-Canada, then Route 360 south from near the Exploits River falls.
Plan fuel and daylight at the turn. Route 360 crosses over a hundred kilometres of uninhabited interior before anything with a name appears, on an unlit road with moose.
Why people come. The south coast’s principal town, folded into a deep harbour off Fortune Bay.
When you get to Harbour Breton
- Where to eat near Harbour Breton → 9 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Connaigre Arena → — the venue here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at Harbour Breton, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:21 am | 7:56 am | 4:47 pm | 5:22 pm |
| Feb | 6:47 am | 7:19 am | 5:35 pm | 6:07 pm |
| Mar | 6:57 am | 7:27 am | 7:17 pm | 7:48 pm |
| Apr | 5:53 am | 6:25 am | 8:01 pm | 8:33 pm |
| May | 5:00 am | 5:36 am | 8:42 pm | 9:18 pm |
| Jun | 4:34 am | 5:15 am | 9:11 pm | 9:52 pm |
| Jul | 4:52 am | 5:31 am | 9:07 pm | 9:45 pm |
| Aug | 5:35 am | 6:08 am | 8:27 pm | 9:01 pm |
| Sep | 6:18 am | 6:49 am | 7:27 pm | 7:58 pm |
| Oct | 6:59 am | 7:30 am | 6:26 pm | 6:57 pm |
| Nov | 6:44 am | 7:17 am | 4:38 pm | 5:12 pm |
| Dec | 7:18 am | 7:54 am | 4:22 pm | 4:58 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 Harbour Breton →
2 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 179.4 km, after Riverside Diner, until Dashwoods Diner.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 25.1 · 598 m off the road
- Dashwoods Dinerrestaurantkm 204.5
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 Harbour Breton
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A well-kept Queen Anne-style house built in 1907 by a local merchant.
- Elliott Premises, Harbour Bretonstop2.3 km
Harbour Breton, at the end of Route 360, was settled first by French fishermen and later by the English.
- Dead Man's Cove Trailtrail · 6.2 km out and back · moderate2.4 km
- Hermitage-Sandyvilletown48 km
- Hermitage-Sandyville Walking Trailtrail · 1.5 km loop · easy49 km
- Hermitage ferrystop49 km
At the end of Route 364.
Distances by road from Harbour Breton, 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
- Longest stretch without one
- 277 km
- Gander → Harbour Breton, of 280 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Harbour Breton
- 213.2 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
No fast charger at Harbour Breton. From the last fast charger, in Gander, it is 277 km there and the same back: plan on about 554 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Bishop’s Falls, 213.2 km from Harbour Breton 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
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeBishop’s Falls 213.2 km from Harbour Breton by road
Irving Oil 62 Main St
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
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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 3; 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: 18% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 82%
- 213.3 km of 280.2 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 18%
- 46.9 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.
Fuel and servicesYear round — plan at the turn
Route 360 runs well over a hundred kilometres of uninhabited interior before the Bay d'Espoir communities. Leave the Trans-Canada with the fuel and daylight you would want to arrive with.
511nl.ca →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 360's interior stretch is long, wooded and unlit.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
One long road in; check it in both directions. The coast end takes weather off Fortune Bay.
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, Harbour Breton back to Gander is the same distance: 280 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 Harbour Breton?＋
Gander: 280 km against 414 km from Deer Lake. The Route 360 turn is on YQX's side of the island.
How does this relate to the St. Alban's drive?＋
They share Route 360's interior run and fork near the Bay d'Espoir communities. St. Alban's turns up the fjord; this route carries on over the height of land to the Connaigre Peninsula and Fortune Bay.
What is Harbour Breton?＋
The largest town on this stretch of the south coast, on a deep, walled harbour that has worked the fishery for centuries. The town's own heritage pages carry the detail.
What else does the road open?＋
The whole Coast of Bays forks off Route 360's lower half. Hermitage and its Gaultois ferry, on Route 364, have their own page. Belleoram, St. Jacques and English Harbour West are further along the shore.
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