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Gander Airport (YQX) to Trinity

Distance
200.3 km
Roads
Route 330Route 1Route 230Route 239
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Aerial view of Trinity: coloured houses, the Anglican church, harbour and wharf, overcast summer.
Aerial view of Trinity: coloured houses, the Anglican church, harbour and wharf, overcast summer.Photo: Quintin Soloviev · source · CC BY 4.0

Places to stay in Trinity

No place to stay in Trinity is listed on Best Kind Stays yet. Every place it lists →

A place listed in Trinity shows on 8 pages here: the town page, 6 drives to Trinity and 1 arena or stage.

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Out on the water from Trinity

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.

Every tour in the province, by kind →

Driving route from Gander International Airport (YQX) to Trinity: 200.3 km by road, via Routes 330 · 1 · 230 · 239.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line measured along OpenStreetMap's roads.

  1. Stop 1: Trinity Museum

    The town's own museum, steps from everything. In a town where every second building is heritage, this is where the story is told. Check hours with the museum.

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  2. Stop 2: Green Family Forge

    A working blacksmith museum in the forge the Green family ran for generations. A short walk, and the rare heritage stop that smells like its subject.

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  3. Stop 3: Fort Point viewpointDetour

    The mapped bench at Fort Point, across the harbour mouth, on the old gun battery's ground. It looks back at Trinity's whole waterfront at once.

    Stopping here adds 3.8 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 230 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 45 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 4% has no surface tag, so unknown.
  • Route 239 →Whole road: 0 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 17 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Campground 13 km from the end →

Drive measured Sep 4, 2026, terminal to town. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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200.3 km. Gander airport to Trinity. The last road, Route 239, comes off the ridge and the whole town is suddenly below you. Slow down for that.

Pair it with Cape Bonavista. Trinity’s turnoff comes first, the lighthouse further on: one full day, one peninsula.

Why people come. The whole town is the exhibit: the museum, the Green Family Forge on working days, Fort Point’s view of the waterfront, and the Rising Tide’s summer stage.

When you get to Trinity

Sunrise and sunset at Trinity, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:14 am7:49 am4:34 pm5:10 pm
Feb6:39 am7:11 am5:23 pm5:56 pm
Mar6:46 am7:17 am7:07 pm7:38 pm
Apr5:41 am6:14 am7:52 pm8:25 pm
May4:46 am5:23 am8:35 pm9:12 pm
Jun4:19 am5:01 am9:05 pm9:47 pm
Jul4:37 am5:17 am9:01 pm9:40 pm
Aug5:22 am5:56 am8:19 pm8:54 pm
Sep6:07 am6:39 am7:17 pm7:49 pm
Oct6:50 am7:22 am6:15 pm6:47 pm
Nov6:36 am7:10 am4:25 pm5:00 pm
Dec7:11 am7:48 am4:09 pm4:45 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 Trinity →

7 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 39.4 km, after Dunrovin.

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
  • Happy Adventure Cafecafékm 76.4 · 1229 m off the road
  • Snack shack.fast foodkm 115 · 624 m off the road
  • Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 153.7 · 152 m off the road
  • Dunrovinrestaurantkm 155 · 173 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.

Short drives from Trinity

An easy day out from TrinitySkerwink Trail 11 km awayA walk: 5.1 km loop · moderateDirections from where your phone is now:
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Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Trinity. Each one's page has directions.

  • Port Rextontown9.3 km
  • Fort Point viewpointstop9.6 km

    The mapped bench at Fort Point, across the harbour mouth, on the old gun battery's ground.

  • Skerwink Trailtrail · 5.1 km loop · moderate11 km
  • Skerwink Trail lookoutstop11 km

    A lookout on the Skerwink Trail at Port Rexton, which Travel + Leisure listed among the 25 best hikes in North America and Europe, per the province's tourism site.

  • Lockston Path Provincial Parkstop13 km

    The peninsula's ParksNL campground.

  • Random Passagestop16 km

    The set of the TV miniseries Random Passage at New Bonaventure, a replica of an early 1800s fishing village, per the province's tourism site.

  • Port Unionstop33 km

    A town built by a union and founded by the fishermen's leader Sir William Coaker, as the province's tourism site tells it.

  • Murphy's Cove to Lodge's Pond Trailtrail · 6.4 km loop · moderate34 km
More, up to 58 km (10)

Distances by road from Trinity, 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.

What has been recorded near here

Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Trinity, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.

  • Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in August, July, June302 reports on record
  • Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June279 reports on record
  • Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, August, June234 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, Port Blandford km 116, Port Rexton km 196
Longest stretch without one
80 km
Port Blandford → Port Rexton, of 200 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Trinity
8.7 km
by road, at Port Rexton

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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  • Glovertown km 68 of the drive

    Splash N Putt Resort Traytown, NL A0G 4K0

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Port Blandford km 116 of the drive

    Rudy’s Restaurant & Gas Bar 42 Blackmore’s Road

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Port Rexton km 196 of the drive, 2.9 km off it

    Port Rexton Foodex NL-230, Port Rexton, NL A0C 2H0

    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

Every route compared →NL Hydro: plan your road trip →

Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
none
Not proof it is all paved: 51% has no surface tag.
Mapped as paved
49%
86.2 km of 200.3 km driven
No surface tag on the map
51%
90.6 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.

  • WhalesMay–September, the province's stated window

    Trinity is one of the twelve shore spots the province names for whale watching, and Fort Point's bench is the obvious seat. Whales do not always keep to the window.

    newfoundlandlabrador.com →

  • Theatre seasonSummer; check the company's calendar

    Trinity is also a stage. The Rising Tide Theatre is mapped a minute's walk from the museum; it announces its own season, pageant and schedule.

    risingtidetheatre.com →

  • 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 230's long, unlit middle is where it matters.

    gov.nl.ca →

  • Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April

    The peninsula gets weather from two bays. Check before you drive, and again before the drive back.

    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.

The drive back

Measured the other way, Trinity back to Gander is the same distance: 200 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 Trinity?＋

Gander: 200 km against 503 km from Deer Lake.

Trinity or Bonavista — or both?＋

Both. Trinity's turnoff comes first on Route 230 and the cape is 248 km from Gander against Trinity's 200: a full day. The Bonavista page has the lighthouse leg.

What is Trinity actually like?＋

The best-kept streetscape of saltbox houses, churches and merchant premises on the island. You can walk it in an hour and photograph it for three. Check with each place for what is open that week.

What is the drive actually like?＋

Mostly the same Route 230 as the Bonavista drive. Then the 239 drops off the ridge into Trinity Bight and the town appears below you all at once.

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Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on September 4, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/154350645 — passenger terminal. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/475233658 — Trinity place node. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms