Gander Airport (YQX) to Salvage and the Eastport beaches
- Distance
- 97.3 km
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Stop 1: Joey's Lookout (Gambo)
The viewpoint above Gambo, right off the highway, named for Joey Smallwood, the premier who brought Newfoundland into Canada. The view down Freshwater Bay is the first big water of the drive.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout (Gambo) ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Eastport Beach
A named sandy beach on the route; the road to Salvage runs right past the sand. This is the beach the Eastport peninsula is known for.
Directions →Show on map: Eastport Beach ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Sandy Cove beachDetour
A second mapped beach, at Sandy Cove, a short spur south of Eastport. OpenStreetMap draws the beach but gives it no name.
Stopping here adds 4.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Sandy Cove beach ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Salvage Fisherman's Museum
In the village, no detour: a fisherman's museum in one of the coast's oldest outports. Check the museum's hours before planning the day around it.
Directions →Show on map: Salvage Fisherman's 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 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 310 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 19 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
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 →
97 km. Gander airport to Salvage: the Trans-Canada past Gambo, then Route 310 through the Eastport peninsula.
A beach on the road. Eastport Beach lies directly on Route 310, no detour needed.
Why people come. Salvage is one of the oldest fishing villages on this coast: rock, saltbox houses, a fisherman’s museum, and a road that ends there.
Sunrise and sunset at Salvage, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:16 am | 7:52 am | 4:34 pm | 5:10 pm |
| Feb | 6:40 am | 7:13 am | 5:24 pm | 5:56 pm |
| Mar | 6:47 am | 7:19 am | 7:08 pm | 7:40 pm |
| Apr | 5:41 am | 6:14 am | 7:54 pm | 8:27 pm |
| May | 4:45 am | 5:23 am | 8:37 pm | 9:15 pm |
| Jun | 4:18 am | 5:00 am | 9:08 pm | 9:50 pm |
| Jul | 4:37 am | 5:17 am | 9:03 pm | 9:43 pm |
| Aug | 5:22 am | 5:57 am | 8:21 pm | 8:56 pm |
| Sep | 6:08 am | 6:40 am | 7:19 pm | 7:50 pm |
| Oct | 6:51 am | 7:23 am | 6:16 pm | 6:48 pm |
| Nov | 6:38 am | 7:12 am | 4:26 pm | 5:00 pm |
| Dec | 7:13 am | 7:50 am | 4:09 pm | 4:46 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 →
5 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 29.6 km, after Family Pizza.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Copper Kettle Restaurantrestaurantkm 31.9
- Family Pizzarestaurantkm 38.7 · 1870 m off the road
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 68.3
- Chico's Drive B'y & Takeoutrestaurantkm 86.9
- Salvaje Brewing Companypubkm 97 · 206 m off the road
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.
Run a place to stay near Salvage?
Places to stay on this site come from Best Kind Stays, run by the same people: places that book with their owner, never a booking platform. Listing is free and nothing paid changes the order.
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Short drives from Salvage
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- High Tide Trail (Eastport)trail · 2.6 km out and back · easy9.7 km
The province's tourism site points here for what is on in Eastport's arts and culture.
- Happy Adventurestop12 km
Boat and kayak tours leave here for resettled communities, sea caves and a puffin colony, per the province's tourism site.
- Sandy Cove beachstop12 km
A second mapped beach, at Sandy Cove, a short spur south of Eastport.
- Eastport North Arm Provincial Parkstop12 km
A green space near Eastport, essentially on the driven line.
- Burnside ferry terminaltown19 km
- Coastal Trail (Terra Nova)trail · 8.4 km out and back · moderate37 km
- Mount Stamford Look-off Trailtrail · 2.2 km out and back · easy37 km
More, up to 62 km (5)
- Goowiddy Pathtrail · 8 km loop · moderate37 km
- Outport Trailtrail · 35 km out and back · strenuous41 km
- Ochre Hill Trailtrail · 5 km loop · easy47 km
- Sandy Pond Trailtrail · 3 km loop · easy47 km
- Dunphy's Pond Trailtrail · 9.8 km out and back · moderate62 km
Distances by road from Salvage, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
The trails
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 Salvage, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June242 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, Glovertown km 68
- Longest stretch without one
- 65 km
- Gander → Glovertown, of 97 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Salvage
- 28.8 km
- by road, at Glovertown
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) · WazeGlovertown km 68 of the drive
Splash N Putt Resort Traytown, NL A0G 4K0
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
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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: 61% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 39%
- 34.3 km of 97.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 61%
- 53.2 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.
Beach seasonSummer; judge the water yourself
These beaches have no lifeguards. The temperature strip at the top of this page is a reading, not a promise. Cold water is normal in Newfoundland in every month.
adventuresmart.ca →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. Watch Route 310 through the Eastport peninsula woods in the evening.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 310 is a dead-end spur to the sea. Check before leaving the Trans-Canada at Glovertown.
511nl.ca →
Onward from Salvage
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
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, Salvage back to Gander is the same distance: 97 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 Salvage?＋
Gander: 97 km against 400 km from Deer Lake. It is one of the shortest beach drives from YQX.
What is the drive actually like?＋
Trans-Canada east past Gambo and Joey's Lookout, off at Glovertown onto Route 310, then through the Eastport peninsula (Sandringham, Eastport and its beach) until the road ends at Salvage's harbour. The last stretch is the reason to come: rock, water and old outport houses.
Is there actually sand?＋
Yes. OpenStreetMap maps Eastport Beach as a named beach directly on the route, with a second mapped beach at Sandy Cove a 4.5 km detour off it.
Why Salvage and not just the beaches?＋
The road ends at one of the oldest continuously fished harbours on this coast. The beaches are the middle of the drive. Driving on to the end gets you the whole peninsula.
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