Gander International Airport (YQX) → New-Wes-Valley
Gander Airport (YQX) to New-Wes-Valley and the Barbour coast
- Drive time
- 1h 56m
- Distance
- 118.5 km
Conservative model estimate, Gander International Airport (YQX) to New-Wes-Valley — 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 town, checked 2026-09-03.
Drive it with your own nav:Organic Maps →OsmAnd →Apple →Google →Waze →The first two run on OpenStreetMap and don't track you — the same map this site is built from.
Or take the whole route with you: Download the GPX → — the measured drive plus every stop as a waypoint, for Organic Maps, OsmAnd or any Garmin, no account and no signal needed once it's on the device.
No one has sent a recording of this drive yet.Be the first — send the track →
The terminal side — parking, arrivals, ground transport — is the airport's own information: Gander International Airport →
The 320 coast is where the northeast shows its working face, and New-Wes-Valley is its principal town — five or six old outports amalgamated under one deliberately diplomatic name. The measured drive is 1h56 to the municipal centre; the page’s honest highlight sits beyond it, at the end of a 29-minute spur: Newtown, a town built across small islands and stitched together with bridges, where the mapped Barbour Tickle Bridge stands in for everything the map shows threading between the houses.
One mapping gap stated plainly: Newtown’s Barbour heritage property — the reason many people drive here — has no OpenStreetMap element yet, so this page anchors on the bridge instead and files the site as a contributor ask. The road, the bridges and the tickles are all mapped and measured; the museum’s own story, hours and season are its own to tell, and a mapped building would let this page point straight at it.
Faded on the map: the other measured drives from Gander International into this same region, each its own page — Greenspond (2h 6m), Dover (1h 15m), Musgrave Harbour (1h 25m). 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 Gambo — the shared first act of every drive out this way.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeSquare Pond
The pond-side stop at the highway's edge before the Route 320 turn — mapped under its old provincial-park name, though the province no longer lists it; the pond outlasts the paperwork.
Stopping here adds about 3 min and 0.7 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeBarbour Tickle Bridge (Newtown)Detour
The spur worth its half hour: Newtown, past Wesleyville, is a town built across small islands stitched together by bridges — the map shows the tickles threading between the houses, and this mapped bridge is your proof-of-arrival. Newtown is also home to the Barbour family's heritage property, which nobody has yet mapped in OpenStreetMap — a contributor ask, not an omission of the place itself.
Stopping here adds about 29 min and 26.5 km to the drive.
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What has been recorded near here
Species reported within 50 km of New-Wes-Valley and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in August, July, June784 reports on record
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, August, June237 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June167 reports on record
- Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in July, August, October60 reports on record
- Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in August, July6 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 New-Wes-Valley
- Where to eat in New-Wes-Valley → — 2 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
- 115 km
- Gander → New-Wes-Valley, of 118 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to New-Wes-Valley
- 100.8 km
- 1h 41m 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
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 23%
- 25.2 km of 118.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 77%
- 83.8 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
34 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
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's inland stretch is exactly the kind of road it means.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The 320 coast takes weather straight off the Atlantic — check the cameras before leaving the Trans-Canada.
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 New-Wes-Valley?＋
Gander: about 1h56 against five-plus hours from Deer Lake. This coast belongs to YQX.
What is New-Wes-Valley, exactly?＋
An amalgamated town — Newtown, Wesleyville, Valleyfield, Badger's Quay, Pool's Island and their neighbours under one name since the 1990s. The name reads like a committee because it was one; the shoreline reads like the centuries that built it.
Why is Newtown a detour if it's part of the same town?＋
Because the measured destination is the municipal centre and Newtown sits at the coast's far end — 26.5 km and about 29 minutes beyond, across a chain of bridged islands. It is the most distinctive built geography on this shore and the reason the spur is listed with its real cost instead of being rounded away.
How does this pair with the other Route 320 drives?＋
Naturally: Greenspond's causeway island is one bay south, and Route 330 continues around to Lumsden and Musgrave Harbour's sand. The 320-330 coast is a full day of measured stops from a single terminal door.
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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