Gander Airport (YQX) to Musgrave Harbour and the Straight Shore
- Distance
- 93.3 km
- Roads
- Route 330
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Places to stay in Musgrave Harbour
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Stop 1: Gander Old Town SiteDetour
The mapped historic ruins of the original Gander townsite, close to the terminal. The town stood here before the airport moved everyone.
Stopping here adds 2.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Gander Old Town Site ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Jonathan's Pond Provincial Park ReserveDetour
A Provincial Park Reserve on Route 330. ParksNL uses that name for a former camping park whose campground was privatised; it is kept for nature and has no visitor services.
Stopping here adds 1.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Jonathan's Pond Provincial Park Reserve ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Carmanville Wetlands Interpretation Center
Carmanville's wetlands interpretation site, beside Route 330 as it rounds Hamilton Sound. Its boardwalk is this shore's birdwatching stop; OSM maps a 'Birdingwatching Trail' in its own spelling.
Directions →Show on map: Carmanville Wetlands Interpretation Center ↑Other map apps
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Drive measured Sep 2, 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 →
93 km, one road. Gander airport to Musgrave Harbour on Route 330 the whole way, through Carmanville and round Hamilton Sound to the Straight Shore.
Why people come. The beach: OpenStreetMap maps continuous sand on both sides of the town, rare on a coast that mostly meets the sea as rock. Banting’s memorial park isn’t mapped yet; you can fix that.
Add Lumsden. Route 330 carries on to Lumsden (OpenStreetMap node/107364008), ringed with beach. It adds 68.3 km out and back.
When you get to Musgrave Harbour
- Where to eat near Musgrave Harbour → 3 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Musgrave Harbour, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:19 am | 7:56 am | 4:33 pm | 5:09 pm |
| Feb | 6:43 am | 7:16 am | 5:23 pm | 5:57 pm |
| Mar | 6:48 am | 7:20 am | 7:09 pm | 7:41 pm |
| Apr | 5:41 am | 6:14 am | 7:57 pm | 8:30 pm |
| May | 4:43 am | 5:22 am | 8:41 pm | 9:20 pm |
| Jun | 4:14 am | 4:58 am | 9:13 pm | 9:56 pm |
| Jul | 4:33 am | 5:15 am | 9:08 pm | 9:49 pm |
| Aug | 5:20 am | 5:56 am | 8:24 pm | 9:00 pm |
| Sep | 6:08 am | 6:41 am | 7:20 pm | 7:53 pm |
| Oct | 6:53 am | 7:25 am | 6:16 pm | 6:48 pm |
| Nov | 6:41 am | 7:16 am | 4:24 pm | 4:59 pm |
| Dec | 7:17 am | 7:55 am | 4:06 pm | 4:44 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 the start, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat in Gander →
Nothing mapped between the two ends.
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 Musgrave Harbour
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- Offer Wadham Lighthouselighthouse1.9 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Deadman's Bay beachstop26 km
A beach of fine beige sand a few minutes from Lumsden, per the province's tourism site.
- Lumsden Beachstop35 km
The beach the province's tourism site calls the most popular on the Kittiwake Coast.
- Windmill Bight Park Reservestop39 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.
- Newtown Boardwalk Walktrail · 3.4 km walk · easy49 km
- New-Wes-Valleytown57 km
Distances by road from Musgrave Harbour, 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
What has been recorded near here
Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Musgrave Harbour, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in June, August, July173 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 2
- Longest stretch without one
- 89 km
- Gander → Musgrave Harbour, of 91 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Musgrave Harbour
- 90.9 km
- by road, at Gander
No fast charger at Musgrave Harbour. From the last fast charger, in Gander, it is 89 km there and the same back: plan on about 178 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Gander, 90.9 km from Musgrave Harbour by road, off this drive's own road.
The chargers
Gander km 2 of the drive, 1.2 km off it
Orangestore 100 Trans-Canada Highway
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
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 59% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 41%
- 33.9 km of 90.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 59%
- 48.6 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 330 runs long wooded stretches between its communities.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
One road in and out. Check it before you head for the shore.
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.
Questions
Should I fly into Gander or Deer Lake for the Straight Shore?＋
Gander, overwhelmingly: 93 km against 395 km from Deer Lake.
What is the Straight Shore?＋
The low, sandy coast the road meets at Musgrave Harbour, straight by Newfoundland standards. OpenStreetMap records continuous beach for kilometres either side of the town, unlike most of this island's coast.
Is the beach swimmable?＋
It depends on the North Atlantic and the day. The sand is real and long; judge the water from the shore. Bring layers either way; our gear guide says why.
Is this an iceberg drive?＋
Sometimes, since this coast faces Iceberg Alley. But Musgrave Harbour is not one of the viewing spots the province names. Those spots are in the iceberg guide; Iceberg Finder has live sightings.
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