Gander Airport (YQX) to St. Alban's and Bay d'Espoir
- ⛽ Route 360 has 129 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Electric: plan 464 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 234.9 km
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Places to stay in St. Alban's
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Stop 1: Upper Falls Lookout
A viewpoint mapped beside the Trans-Canada at the Norris Arm junction, facing north. The Bay d'Espoir Highway turn near Bishop's Falls, where Route 360 leaves the highway and runs south, is 21.9 km ahead. 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.
Directions →Show on map: Upper Falls Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Notre Dame Provincial ParkDetour
A provincial park on the Trans-Canada leg, just off the driven line, and the campground on this route. It is seasonal. ParksNL publishes what operates there and when.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Notre Dame Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Hydro Generation Info.
The mapped interpretation stop for the Bay d'Espoir hydro development, near the head of the bay. The hydro development is the reason a highway runs through this country.
Directions →Show on map: Hydro Generation Info. ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: St. Alban's Heritage Museum
The town's museum, in St. Alban's at the end of the road.
Directions →Show on map: St. Alban's Heritage 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 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 360 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 129 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 361 →Whole road: 4 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 15 km. Unpaved mapped: 0.8 km; 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 →
234.9 km. Gander airport to St. Alban’s: the Trans-Canada west past Glenwood and Bishop’s Falls, then Route 360 south to Bay d’Espoir.
Why people come. St. Alban’s is the largest community on Bay d’Espoir, a long, sheltered arm of the sea; Conne River, home to the Miawpukek First Nation, is on the bay’s eastern side.
When you get to St. Alban's
- Where to eat near St. Alban's → 2 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at St. Alban's, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:22 am | 7:57 am | 4:46 pm | 5:21 pm |
| Feb | 6:48 am | 7:20 am | 5:34 pm | 6:06 pm |
| Mar | 6:56 am | 7:27 am | 7:17 pm | 7:48 pm |
| Apr | 5:52 am | 6:24 am | 8:01 pm | 8:34 pm |
| May | 4:58 am | 5:35 am | 8:43 pm | 9:20 pm |
| Jun | 4:32 am | 5:13 am | 9:13 pm | 9:54 pm |
| Jul | 4:50 am | 5:29 am | 9:08 pm | 9:48 pm |
| Aug | 5:33 am | 6:08 am | 8:28 pm | 9:02 pm |
| Sep | 6:18 am | 6:49 am | 7:27 pm | 7:58 pm |
| Oct | 7:00 am | 7:31 am | 6:26 pm | 6:57 pm |
| Nov | 6:45 am | 7:19 am | 4:37 pm | 5:11 pm |
| Dec | 7:19 am | 7:55 am | 4:21 pm | 4:57 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 St. Alban's →
2 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 179.4 km, after Riverside Diner, until Dashwoods Diner.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 25.1 · 598 m off the road
- Dashwoods Dinerrestaurantkm 204.5
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 St. Alban's
Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from St. Alban's. Each one's page has directions.
- Hydro Generation Info.stop18 km
The mapped interpretation stop for the Bay d'Espoir hydro development, near the head of the bay.
- Milltownstop20 km
A Bay d'Espoir community on Route 361, one of the two the province's tourism site names for boat tours on the bay.
- Miawpukek First Nation, Conne Riverstop47 km
Home of the Miawpukek First Nation Reserve, on Route 365.
Distances by road from St. Alban's, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 3
- Longest stretch without one
- 232 km
- Gander → St. Alban's, of 235 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to St. Alban's
- 167.9 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
No fast charger at St. Alban's. From the last fast charger, in Gander, it is 232 km there and the same back: plan on about 464 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Bishop’s Falls, 167.9 km from St. Alban's 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
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeBishop’s Falls 167.9 km from St. Alban's by road
Irving Oil 62 Main St
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 3; 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: 22% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 78%
- 163.8 km of 234.9 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 22%
- 46.9 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, origin to destination, 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 360 is a long, unlit run through moose country.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Check before you leave the Trans-Canada. Once you turn south on Route 360 there is no other road.
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, St. Alban's back to Gander is the same distance: 235 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 Bay d'Espoir?＋
Gander, by a wide margin: 235 km against 368 km from Deer Lake, a difference of 133 km. The Route 360 junction sits on the Trans-Canada well east of centre.
What is actually down there?＋
The Bay d'Espoir communities: St. Alban's the largest of them, Milltown and Head of Bay d'Espoir at the top of the bay, and Conne River, home of the Miawpukek First Nation, on its eastern side. It is one of several places on this site's map where the road reaches the island's south coast.
What should I know about Route 360 itself?＋
It is long and empty. The turn south comes near Bishop's Falls, and from there the highway runs well over a hundred kilometres to the bay. Expect few services once you leave the Trans-Canada, and fuel up before the junction.
Is this a day trip from the airport?＋
Only barely, and only in summer light: 470 km of driving before any stops. It works better as the first leg of a stay on the bay.
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