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Gander Airport (YQX) to Norris Point

Distance
377.7 km
Roads
Route 1Route 430
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Bonne Bay from the rocks at Norris Point: a pale cliff across calm blue water, snow on the hills behind.
Bonne Bay from the rocks at Norris Point: a pale cliff across calm blue water, snow on the hills behind.Photo: Eric Raymond Lanning · source · CC BY 3.0

Places to stay in Norris Point

From Best Kind Stays. Both sites are run by the same people. Listing is free and nothing paid changes the order.

Every place to stay in Norris Point on Best Kind Stays →

Art in and near Norris Point

By road, from the open map. Shops and galleries keep their own hours. All the art, by region →

Out on the water

Boat tours that leave from here. The sea and the season decide what you see: ask them what is about. Times and prices are on each one's page.

From Norris Point

From Woody Point

Every tour in the province, by kind →

Driving route from Gander International Airport (YQX) to Norris Point: 377.7 km by road, via Routes 1 · 430.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line measured along OpenStreetMap's roads.

  1. Stop 1: Airport Nordic Ski Club

    Trail lengths are missing because the trails are not on the map yet.

    Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.

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  2. Stop 2: Upper Falls LookoutDetour

    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.

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  3. Stop 3: Indian River

    OpenStreetMap records it as a nature reserve but not who runs it, and it is not on ParksNL's list. Treat it as a place to pull over, not somewhere with facilities.

    Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.

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  4. Stop 4: Newfoundland Insectarium

    An insect museum in Deer Lake. Check its hours before detouring with kids in the car.

    Stopping here adds 0.2 km to the drive.

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  5. Stop 5: Gros Morne Mountain trailhead

    The start of the Gros Morne Mountain Trail, one of the treks the province's tourism site names among the park's 100 km of trails. The parking is off Route 430.

    Stopping here adds 0.3 km to the drive.

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  6. Stop 6: Gros Morne Visitor Information Centre

    Parks Canada's visitor centre on Route 430, before Rocky Harbour. Gros Morne is one of two UNESCO World Heritage Sites on the Viking Trail, per the province's tourism site. Sort out park entry here.

    Stopping here adds 0.3 km to the drive.

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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 430 →Whole road: 17 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 97 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 44% has no surface tag, so unknown.

Drive measured Nov 2, 2026, Gander International Airport (YQX) to Norris Point. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Airport info: Gander International Airport →

377.7 km. From Gander airport to Norris Point, on Routes 1 and 430.

Norris Point is on Bonne Bay, across the water from Woody Point. Parks Canada lists it among the seaside communities beside Gros Morne National Park where you can stay, with Cow Head, Glenburnie, Rocky Harbour, Trout River and Woody Point.

When you get to Norris Point

Sunrise and sunset at Norris Point, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:35 am8:12 am4:48 pm5:24 pm
Feb6:58 am7:31 am5:39 pm6:12 pm
Mar7:04 am7:36 am7:25 pm7:57 pm
Apr5:56 am6:30 am8:12 pm8:46 pm
May4:58 am5:37 am8:57 pm9:36 pm
Jun4:30 am5:13 am9:29 pm10:13 pm
Jul4:49 am5:30 am9:24 pm10:05 pm
Aug5:36 am6:12 am8:40 pm9:16 pm
Sep6:24 am6:56 am7:36 pm8:08 pm
Oct7:09 am7:41 am6:32 pm7:04 pm
Nov6:57 am7:32 am4:40 pm5:15 pm
Dec7:33 am8:11 am4:22 pm5:00 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 Norris Point →

32 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.

The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 128.8 km, after Eddies Restaurant, until Big Stop Restaurant.

Every one of them, in the order you pass them
  • Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 25.1 · 600 m off the road
  • Irvingrestaurantkm 83.6
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 83.6
  • Furey's Trailway Take-Outfast foodkm 83.7 · 425 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 · 1259 m off the road
  • Sarah's Dinerrestaurantkm 96.9 · 1171 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 97.4 · 967 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
  • 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
  • Burger Kingfast foodkm 97.7 · 721 m off the road
  • Dairy Queenfast foodkm 97.7 · 266 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 177.4
  • Big Stop Restaurantrestaurantkm 306.2 · 349 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 306.3 · 1623 m off the road
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 306.3 · 508 m off the road
  • Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 306.3 · 1584 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 306.3 · 1839 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 306.3 · 1744 m off the road
  • Wingn' itrestaurantkm 306.3 · 1148 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonfast foodkm 306.3 · 393 m off the road
  • Funland Resortrestaurantkm 313.3 · 937 m off the road

Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, read 2026-10-18 (how we measure). Missing one? Add it to the map or email us the details.

Short drives from Norris Point

An easy day out from Norris PointWestern Brook Pond Trail 36 km awayThe walk to the boat: 5.4 km out and back · easyBook the boat ahead: Parks Canada recommends it. 709-458-2016 · Their page →Directions from where your phone is now:
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Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Norris Point. Each one's page has directions.

More, up to 75 km (9)

Distances by road from Norris Point, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

Doing it electric

Fast chargers on this drive
Gander km 3, Bishop’s Falls km 86, South Brook km 178, Deer Lake km 307, Rocky Harbour km 370
Longest stretch without one
129 km
South Brook → Deer Lake, of 377 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Norris Point
8.3 km
by road, at Rocky Harbour

The chargers

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) and Deer Lake, a second site in the same town (km 303; 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

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Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
none
Not proof it is all paved: 66% has no surface tag.
Mapped as paved
34%
119.9 km of 377.7 km driven
No surface tag on the map
66%
230.3 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 from a local Geofabrik extract (Overpass unreachable), checked 2026-11-02. 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 says the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is 377.7 km, much of it unlit two-lane highway; plan the drive for daylight where you can.

    gov.nl.ca →

  • Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April

    Conditions change fast on this coast. Check before you set off.

    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.

    (709) 256-1444

  • 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.

    (888) 263-1852

  • Limousine

    Nobel Limousines, listed by the Airport Authority.

    (709) 535-2457

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

How far is Norris Point from Gander airport?＋

377.7 km by road from the terminal to Norris Point.

What route do I take?＋

Routes 1 and 430. Your maps app has the turns.

Can I stay in Norris Point?＋

Yes. Parks Canada lists Norris Point among the seaside communities beside Gros Morne National Park where you can stay.

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Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on November 2, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/154350645 — Terminal. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/475749386 — Norris Point town node. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms