Gander Airport (YQX) to New-Wes-Valley and the Barbour coast
- Distance
- 118.5 km
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Places to stay in New-Wes-Valley
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Stop 1: Joey's Lookout (Gambo)
The viewpoint above Gambo, on every drive out this way.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout (Gambo) ↑Other map apps
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A pond-side stop at the highway's edge before the Route 320 turn. The map still uses its old provincial-park name, though the province no longer lists it.
Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Barbour Tickle Bridge (Newtown)Detour
Newtown, past Wesleyville, is built across small islands joined by bridges, with tickles running between the houses. Newtown is also home to the Barbour family's heritage property, which is not yet mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Stopping here adds 26.5 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.
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 →
119 km. Gander airport to New-Wes-Valley: the Trans-Canada, then Route 320 to the municipal centre.
Go on to Newtown. A 26.5 km spur there and back, it is a town built across small islands and stitched together with bridges, including the mapped Barbour Tickle Bridge.
Why people come. Newtown’s Barbour heritage property is the reason many people drive here. Check its hours and season with the museum.
When you get to New-Wes-Valley
- Where to eat near New-Wes-Valley → 2 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Beothic Arena → — the venue here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at New-Wes-Valley, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:17 am | 7:53 am | 4:32 pm | 5:09 pm |
| Feb | 6:41 am | 7:14 am | 5:23 pm | 5:56 pm |
| Mar | 6:47 am | 7:19 am | 7:08 pm | 7:40 pm |
| Apr | 5:40 am | 6:13 am | 7:55 pm | 8:28 pm |
| May | 4:43 am | 5:21 am | 8:39 pm | 9:17 pm |
| Jun | 4:15 am | 4:58 am | 9:10 pm | 9:53 pm |
| Jul | 4:34 am | 5:15 am | 9:05 pm | 9:46 pm |
| Aug | 5:20 am | 5:55 am | 8:22 pm | 8:57 pm |
| Sep | 6:07 am | 6:39 am | 7:19 pm | 7:51 pm |
| Oct | 6:52 am | 7:24 am | 6:15 pm | 6:47 pm |
| Nov | 6:39 am | 7:14 am | 4:24 pm | 4:59 pm |
| Dec | 7:15 am | 7:52 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 →
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 New-Wes-Valley
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- Newtown Boardwalk Walktrail · 3.4 km walk · easy13 km
- Windmill Bight Park Reservestop20 km
Three kilometres from Lumsden off Route 330.
- Cape Freelsstop21 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 Beachstop23 km
The beach the province's tourism site calls the most popular on the Kittiwake Coast.
- Greenspond Courthousestop25 km
Mapped as a museum: the island's 19th-century courthouse, kept as a heritage site.
- Greenspondtown25 km
- Greenspond Island Walktrail · 6 km loop · moderate25 km
- Deadman's Bay beachstop31 km
A beach of fine beige sand a few minutes from Lumsden, per the province's tourism site.
More, up to 57 km (4)
- Dover Fault Interpretation Centrestop50 km
In town and right on the route: the interpretation centre for the fault, with the Dover Fault Trail beside it climbing to the lookout.
- Dovertown51 km
- Offer Wadham Lighthouselighthouse57 kmDirections →
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Distances by road from New-Wes-Valley, 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 New-Wes-Valley, 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, September38 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
- 115 km
- Gander → New-Wes-Valley, of 118 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to New-Wes-Valley
- 100.8 km
- by road, at Glovertown
No fast charger at New-Wes-Valley. From the last fast charger, in Gander, it is 115 km there and the same back: plan on about 230 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Glovertown, 100.8 km from New-Wes-Valley 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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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeGlovertown 100.8 km from New-Wes-Valley 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
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 77% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 23%
- 25.2 km of 118.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 77%
- 83.8 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's inland stretch is that kind of road.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The 320 coast takes weather straight off the Atlantic. Check the cameras before leaving the Trans-Canada.
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, New-Wes-Valley back to Gander is the same distance: 118 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 New-Wes-Valley?＋
Gander: 119 km against 422 km from Deer Lake.
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.
Why is Newtown a detour if it's part of the same town?＋
The measured destination is the municipal centre, and Newtown sits at the coast's far end: 26.5 km there and back, across a chain of bridged islands. The spur is listed with its real cost.
How does this pair with the other Route 320 drives?＋
Greenspond's causeway island is one bay south, and Route 330 continues around to Lumsden and Musgrave Harbour's sand. The 320-330 coast makes a full day from Gander.
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