Gander International Airport (YQX) to Pilley's Island
- Distance
- 220.2 km
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Stop 1: Bishop’s Falls Heritage Centre
A small heritage centre in Bishop's Falls, the first town of any size west of Gander on this drive. A lighter stop than the two museums further on in Grand Falls-Windsor.
Stopping here adds 1.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Bishop’s Falls Heritage Centre ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Mary March Provincial Museum
In Grand Falls-Windsor, near the drive's midpoint, telling the history of the Beothuk and of central Newfoundland's interior. An easy pull-off the Trans-Canada before the turn north.
Stopping here adds 1.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Mary March Provincial Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Loggers' Life Provincial MuseumDetour
A reconstructed logging camp on the western edge of Grand Falls-Windsor, right beside the driven line. Central Newfoundland ran on the woods for a century, and this museum shows that work in camp buildings and equipment. Mary March Provincial Museum is a short distance back.
Stopping here adds 4.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Loggers' Life Provincial Museum ↑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.
⛽ 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 380 →Whole road: 2 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 26 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 5% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 382 →Whole road: 0 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 7.7 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 5, 2026, Gander International Airport (YQX) to Pilley's Island. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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220 km. Gander airport to the Pilley’s Island ferry terminal: the Trans-Canada past Grand Falls-Windsor, then north on Routes 380 and 382.
Deer Lake is closer (see the FAQ below). Gander makes sense if you are already landing there, or if the terminal is one stop on a bigger loop.
Where to break it. The museums around Grand Falls-Windsor and Bishop’s Falls.
Sunrise and sunset at Pilley's Island, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:27 am | 8:03 am | 4:39 pm | 5:16 pm |
| Feb | 6:50 am | 7:23 am | 5:30 pm | 6:04 pm |
| Mar | 6:55 am | 7:27 am | 7:17 pm | 7:48 pm |
| Apr | 5:47 am | 6:21 am | 8:04 pm | 8:38 pm |
| May | 4:50 am | 5:28 am | 8:49 pm | 9:27 pm |
| Jun | 4:21 am | 5:05 am | 9:21 pm | 10:04 pm |
| Jul | 4:40 am | 5:21 am | 9:15 pm | 9:57 pm |
| Aug | 5:27 am | 6:03 am | 8:32 pm | 9:07 pm |
| Sep | 6:15 am | 6:48 am | 7:28 pm | 8:00 pm |
| Oct | 7:00 am | 7:33 am | 6:23 pm | 6:56 pm |
| Nov | 6:49 am | 7:24 am | 4:31 pm | 5:06 pm |
| Dec | 7:25 am | 8:02 am | 4:13 pm | 4:51 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 the start, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat in Gander →
23 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 58.5 km, after Riverside Diner.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- 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
- A&Wfast foodkm 97.4 · 969 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 97.5 · 379 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 97.6 · 409 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 97.6 · 519 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 97.6 · 721 m off the road
- Wing'n Itrestaurantkm 97.6 · 1245 m off the road
- War Wick'srestaurantkm 97.6 · 1338 m off the road
- Tai Sun Restaurantrestaurantkm 97.6 · 403 m off the road
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairrestaurantkm 97.6 · 422 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 97.6 · 267 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 97.8 · 846 m off the road
- Badger Diner & Motelrestaurantkm 126.5
- Red Hawk Dinerrestaurantkm 126.7
- Eddies Restaurantrestaurantkm 177.5
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.
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Short drives from Pilley's Island
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- Beaver Pond RV Parkstop6.2 km
An RV campground by its pond.
- Pilley's Islandstop8.8 km
Waterfront views and the Pilley's Island Heritage Museum, per the province's tourism site.
- Pilley's Island Lookout Trailtrail · 4.6 km out and back · easy9.3 km
- Triton Sperm Whale Pavilionstop15 km
A 13-metre sperm whale skeleton, seen on a guided tour, and the story of a 12-foot giant squid that washed up in Badger Bay, per the province's tourism site.
- Trail to Morry's Covetrail · 3.6 km walk · easy17 km
The Hazelnut Hiking and Adventure Trail, which the province's tourism site says is brightest in the fall.
- Tritontown19 km
- Indian Riverstop56 km
A green space mapped on Route 380, essentially on the driven line.
More, up to 76 km (4)
Follows the river estuary to a waterfall and salmon ladder at the trail's end, per the province's tourism site.
- Alexander Murray Trailtrail · 6.2 km loop · moderate68 km
- King's Pointtown70 km
- Caribou Trailtrail · 5.2 km out and back · moderate76 km
Distances by road from Pilley's Island, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 3, Bishop’s Falls km 86, South Brook km 178
- Longest stretch without one
- 92 km
- Bishop’s Falls → South Brook, of 220 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Pilley's Island
- 42.2 km
- by road, at South Brook
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 km 86 of the drive, 0.6 km off it
Irving Oil 62 Main St
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeSouth Brook km 178 of the drive
Eddie’s Restaurant 48 Aspen St, South Brook, NL A0J 1S0
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 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: 54% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 46%
- 92.8 km of 220.2 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 54%
- 107.5 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 the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is about twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Most of this drive is the four-lane Trans-Canada, but the final stretch north on Routes 380 and 382 is unlit two-lane highway. Time it with care if you land late.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The Trans-Canada carries most of this drive, but the secondary highways north to the ferry terminal are a lower winter-maintenance priority. Check conditions before leaving the airport.
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, Pilley's Island back to Gander is the same distance: 220 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
How far is the drive from Gander Airport to the Pilley's Island ferry terminal?＋
220 km: the Trans-Canada Highway west, then north on Routes 380 and 382 to the terminal.
Should I fly into Gander or Deer Lake for Pilley's Island ferry terminal?＋
Deer Lake is closer: 171 km against 220 km from Gander, a difference of 49 km. If Pilley's Island is one stop on a bigger loop through the Gander side of the island, Gander may still suit.
What's at the Pilley's Island ferry terminal itself?＋
A working wharf, where the boat crosses to Long Island. The stops on this page are inland, on the highway there. The crossing is separate from the drive.
Is it a hard drive?＋
No. It is paved the whole way. Most of it is the four-lane Trans-Canada, and only the last stretch on Routes 380 and 382 narrows to two lanes. It is long, so try not to drive that last stretch after dark.
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